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Really Wild Animals is an American direct-to-video children's nature television series, hosted by Dudley Moore as Spin, an anthropomorphic globe. [1] Comprising 13 episodes, it was released between March 2, 1994 [2] and October 21, 1997. [3]
Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 film Nanook of the North is typically cited as the first feature-length documentary. [1] Decades later, Walt Disney Productions pioneered the serial theatrical release of nature-documentaries with its production of the True-Life Adventures series, a collection of fourteen full length and short subject nature films from 1948 to 1960. [2]
(note: Af in light green is Tropical rainforest). Seasonal tropical forest, also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon [1] forest, typically contains a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season.
As stated in the foundation document: [12] The purpose of Olympic National Park is to preserve for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people, a large wilderness park containing the finest sample of primeval forest of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar in the entire United States; to provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for the herds of ...
On 9 August 2010, he became the first person to have walked the entire length of the Amazon River, [7] documented in the 2011 TV series Walking the Amazon on Channel 5. Stafford's expedition began with a friend, Luke Collyer , on 2 April 2008, on the southern coast of Peru.
Deforestation in the Maranhão state, Brazil, in July 2016. The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km 2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest.It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests.
In 2009, two-thirds of the world's forests were located in just 10 countries: Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, China, Australia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, India, and Peru. [2] Global annual deforestation is estimated to total 13.7 million hectares a year, similar to the area of Greece. Half of the area ...
Cinematic films Title Running time Director Year released Notes Resan (The Journey) : 873 min (14 hr, 33 min) Peter Watkins: 1987 [1]Exergue – on documenta 14: 848 min (14 hr, 8 min)