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At first glance, the grazing patterns of reindeer in the Arctic may not appear to have much to do with the day-to-day lives of hippos in Africa. Despite the physical distance between these herds, however, their survival is bound together in a vast and intricately linked network of connections that allows our planet to sustain life itself.Our Living World, an ambitious new docuseries from Wild Space and Freeborne Media (the Emmy-winning team behind Our Great National Parks) portrays just how extraordinary these connections can be.
Traveling from Angola to New Zealand and dozens of countries in between, filmmakers, wildlife photographers, and scientists come together to depict the wondrous tapestry of creatures and ecosystems that sustain Earth’s existence — and that are are under serious threat due to human activity. (courtesy Netflix Tudum)
We live in an extraordinarily beautiful and complex world.
One that is also, devastatingly, under terrible attack … from us.
Humanity doesn’t know how to live and play well with others, and in the four-part documentary series, Our Living World, narrated by Oscar-winner and fellow Aussie Cate Blanchett, we witness both the glory and the threat of our beautiful, wondrous, beleaguered planet.
The sobering lessons of the toll our activities are taking on our planetary home aside (and let’s face it, they can’t stand there for long; they must stay front and centre so urgent is the task at hand to witness and ameliorate it), there is something soul-uplifting and therapeutically enriching to soaking in a multi-part doco series and realising how amazing this world of ours really is.
Our Living World premieres on Netflix on 17 April.