Nature
Season 7 Episode 6 - Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Making of the Bush
A koala up a gumtree is the classic image of the Australian bush. How that odd partnership evolved is one of the strands woven into this episode of Nature Of Australia. The program tells the story of how the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a great variety of forms - the eucalypt. The nursery for nearly all life in Australia is the rainforest, of which only a few patches remain today - th last remnants of vast, dense forests that covered Australia when it first broke away from the ancestral super-continent of Gondwana, and voyaged north into isolation. From among its proliferation of plants emerged the eucalypts, the characteristic gum trees - and from among the forest animals arose a great and varied company of marsupials, adapting to every kind of environment that evolved in response to Australia's changing, drying climate.
Episodes in Season 7
Bonebreakers' Mountain
53 min
Extremadura: Spain's Forgotten Forest
53 min
Peacock's War
53 min
Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: A Separate Creation
53 min
Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: Seas Under Capricorn
53 min
Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Making of the Bush
53 min
Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Sunburnt Country
53 min
Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Land of Flood and Fire
53 min
Nature of Australia: A Portrait of the Island Continent: End of Isolation
53 min
Night Hunters
53 min
Beyond Timbuktu
53 min
Under the Emerald Sea
53 min
Wild Waterfalls
53 min
Meerkats United / The Bee-Team
53 min
Icebird
53 min
Mozu the Snow Monkey
53 min
The Everglades: Rain Machine
53 min
Islands in the Sky
53 min
Rulers of the Wind
53 min
Kariba: the Lake that Made a Dent
53 min
