Planet Earth BBC ★ Two Complete Nature Series with Subtitles and MKV

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Planet Earth BBC ★ Two Complete Nature Series with Subtitles and MKV

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Planet Earth ★ Two Complete Nature Series with 3 languages of subtitles - MKV "Master" Versions - and one Companion Book!  . _ . I found the original DVD source materials here: https://archive.org/details/green-planet-isos I am grateful to RatterFat Video for posting this! Thank you for sharing - RatterFat Video!   I converted those 5 raw DVD ISO Images, into this set of videos: for your viewing pleasure. It took MANY Hours, to gather all of this information from various sources, in order to produce this detailed page description … and many More hours to extract all of the videos from the five source DVDs! (Whew!) There was an Original, Emmy Award winning Series called " Planet Earth " … from 1986 and Made by Annenberg Media - 20 years before these BBC Series came along: https://archive.org/details/planet.earth    - and it is worth watching. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(2006_TV_series) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth:_The_Future     " A hundred years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before. "     — David Attenborough's opening narration Planet Earth is a 2006 nature documentary television miniseries produced as a co-production between the BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide, Discovery Channel and NHK, in association with CBC. Five years in the making , Planet Earth was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and also the first to be filmed in high definition. The series received multiple awards, including four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and an award from the Royal Television Society . Planet Earth premiered on 5 March 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC One, and by June 2007 had been shown in 130 countries. The original version was narrated by David Attenborough, whilst some international versions used alternative narrators. The series has eleven episodes, each of which features a global overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. Planet Earth: The Future is a 2006 BBC documentary series on the environment and conservation, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit as a companion to the multi-award-winning nature documentary Planet Earth. The programs were originally broadcast on BBC Four immediately after the final three episodes of Planet Earth on BBC One. Each episode highlights the conservation issues surrounding some of the species and environments featured in Planet Earth, using interviews with the film-makers and eminent figures from the fields of science, conservation, politics, and theology. The programs are narrated by Simon Poland and the series producer was Fergus Beeley. When the first episodes of Planet Earth were broadcast in the UK, the producers were criticized by some green campaigners for glossing over the environmental problems faced by the planet. Executive producer Alastair Fothergill defended the approach, explaining that a heavy-handed environmental message would not work on primetime BBC One. However, the Planet Earth film crews witnessed first-hand scenes of environmental degradation and the increasing scarcity of wildlife in some of the shooting locations. This experience formed the basis of Planet Earth - The Future, which was designed to engage viewers in a mature debate about environmental issues. Ten years later, BBC announced a six-part sequel had been commissioned, titled Planet Earth II , the first television series produced by the BBC in ultra-high-definition (4K). David Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter. A second sequel, Planet Earth III , was announced and aired in 2023. There was a " Planet Earth " series from 1986 - 20 years before these 3: https://archive.org/details/planet.earth     " Our planet is still full of wonders. As we explore them, so we gain not only understanding, but power. It's not just the future of the whale that today lies in our hands: it's the survival of the natural world in all parts of the living planet. We can now destroy or we can cherish. The choice is ours. "     — David Attenborough, in closing A tremendous amount of information was omitted from this page … and you are encouraged to read the rest of it at Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(2006_TV_series) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth:_The_Future . (You will see that this page would have been twice as long - if I had not trimmed the information down!) Planet Earth is also available here https://archive.org/details/planetearth2006_202301 and here https://archive.org/details/planet-earth_202403 in the Archive - I did not know about these pages when I posted this page - and they were here first. But I added the most information about this series - of these 3 pages. And the Videos I posted have Chapter Markers / 2 Audio Tracks (Stereo and 5.1 Surround) / plus 3 Languages of Subtitles embedded in them.  ...   If you like shows like this: you are highly encouraged to donate to your local PBS affiliate - now, more than ever, they need your help. "Urge Congress: Protect PBS Funding. The federal funding that supports Public Media is at risk of being eliminated. Your PBS viewing experience is in danger of going away. Now is a critical time to act." (See, you CAN give back something ... ) . _ .   In order to use the 3 languages of subtitles - and chapter markers, in either the .MP4 or the .MKV videos: you must download them to your device, and play them from there - with a media player (like VLC) that shows subtitles. Episodes: 01 From Pole to Pole 02 Mountains 03 Fresh Water 04 Caves 05 Deserts 06 Ice Worlds 07 Great Plains 08 Jungles 09 Shallow Seas 10 Seasonal Forests 11 Ocean Deep 12 Saving Species 13 Into the Wilderness 14 Living Together The Companion Book can be Borrowed or Purchased : https://archive.org/details/planetearthasyou0000unse "Illustrated with nearly 400 photographs of the world's most extraordinary wildlife and natural features, this book is a permanent record of one of the most ambitious natural history projects ever undertaken for television. Many of the images reveal inaccessible places that few people have seen and animal behaviour that has never been filmed or photographed before." -- BOOK JACKET Over 10GB of Videos … in your choice of Formats: You may download the ★ entire series - as MP4 ★ all at once, HERE (10.6 GB): https://archive.org/compress/planet_earth_1_bbc/formats=MPEG4&file=/planet_earth_1_bbc.zip You may download the ★ entire series - as MKV ★ all at once, HERE (10.6 GB): https://archive.org/compress/planet_earth_1_bbc/formats=MATROSKA&file=/planet_earth_1_bbc.zip ____________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. These videos are all to be used only for free, personal, educational purposes. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Episode Descriptions: 01 From Pole to Pole The first episode illustrates a journey around the globe and reveals the effect of gradual climatic change and seasonal transitions en route . During Antarctica 's winter, emperor penguins endure four months of darkness, with no food, in temperatures of −70  °C (−94  °F ). Meanwhile, as spring arrives in the Arctic , polar bear cubs take their first steps into a world of rapidly thawing ice. In northern Canada, 3 million caribou complete an overland migration of 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi), longer than that of any animal, and are hunted by wolves during their journey. The forests of eastern Russia are home to the Amur leopard ; with a population of just 40 individuals in the wild, it is now the world's rarest cat. This is primarily because of the destruction of its habitat, and Attenborough states that it "symbolizes the fragility of our natural heritage". However, in the tropics , the jungle that covers 3% of the planet's surface supports 50% of its species. Other species shown include New Guinea 's birds of paradise , African hunting dogs in their efficient pursuit of impala , elephants in Africa migrating towards the waters of the Okavango Delta , a seasonal bloom of life in the otherwise arid Kalahari Desert , and 300,000 migrating Baikal teal , containing the world's entire population of the species in one flock. The episode ends with Antarctica where the male Emperor penguins nurture their newly young chicks after four months of the Antarctic polar night. The Planet Earth Diaries segment, Eye in the Sky , shows how the wild dog hunt was filmed unobtrusively with the aid of the Heligimbal , a powerful, gyro -stabilised camera mounted beneath a helicopter . 02 Mountains The second installment focuses on the mountains . All the main ranges are explored with extensive aerial photography . Ethiopia 's Erta Ale is the longest continually erupting volcano —for over 100 years. On the nearby highlands of Simien Mountains , geladas (the only primate whose diet is almost entirely grass) inhabit precipitous slopes nearly five kilometres (3 mi) up, in troops that are 800-strong: the most numerous of their kind. Alongside them live the critically endangered walia ibex , the two species take turns to act as a lookout for predatory Ethiopian wolves . The Andes have the most volatile weather and guanacos are shown enduring a flash blizzard, along with an exceptional group sighting of the normally solitary puma . The Alpine summits are always snow -covered, apart from that of the Matterhorn , which is too sheer to allow it to settle. Grizzly bear cubs emerge from their den for the first time in the Rockies , while Himalayan inhabitants include rutting markhor and the rare snow leopard . At the eastern end of the range, the giant panda cannot hibernate due to its poor nutriment of bamboo and one of them cradles its week-old cub. Also shown is the Earth's biggest mountain glacier —the Baltoro in Pakistan , which is 70 kilometres (43 mi) long and visible from space. The episode ends with the flock of Demoiselle cranes flying across the Himalayan mountain peak to avoid the hostile air currents and predatory Golden eagles that threaten their migration. Planet Earth Diaries: Snow Leopard Quest explains how difficult it was to get close-up footage of snow leopards ; it was a three-year process and is the world's first-ever video footage of snow leopards. 03 Fresh Water The fresh water program describes the course taken by rivers and some of the species that take advantage of such a habitat. Only 3% of the world's water is fresh, yet all life on land ultimately depends on it. Its journey begins as a stream in the mountains, illustrated by Venezuela 's Tepui , where there is a tropical downpour almost every day. It then travels hundreds of kilometers before forming rapids . With the aid of some expansive helicopter photography, one sequence demonstrates the vastness of Angel Falls , the world's highest free-flowing waterfall . Its waters drop unbroken for nearly 1,000  meters (3,000  feet) and are blown away as a mist before they reach the bottom. In Japan, the water is inhabited by the biggest amphibian, the two-meter long giant salamander , while in the Northern Hemisphere, salmon undertake the largest freshwater migration, and are hunted en route by grizzly bears. The erosive nature of rivers is shown by the Grand Canyon , created over five million years by the Colorado River . Also featured are smooth coated otters repelling mugger crocodiles and the latter's Nile cousin ambushing wildebeest as they cross the Mara River . East African Rift Valley holds three of the world's largest lakes: Malawi , Tanganyika , and Victoria . Lake Malawi contains 850 different Cichlids that originated from their same ancestors that were isolated thousands of years ago, along with nocturnal predatory dolphin fish. Deep in the dead zone of Malawi, swarms of fly midges emerge from larvae during the rainy season and begin their process of mating. In Lake Baikal of Eastern Siberia, Baikal seal and freshwater sponges thrive here despite the ice sheet that covers the lake. The Amazon River , the biggest river in the world, flows from the Andes toward the Atlantic oceans carrying a billion tonnes of sediments. Its tributary, Rio Negro , contains a mixture of sediments and saltwater where it supports botos feeding habit. Between the border of Brazil and Argentina lies Iguassu Falls , which is the widest waterfall ever known. In Pantanal wetlands, 300 species of fish breed here, including the Red-bellied piranhas and Dorados . Along with fish, Roseate spoonbills are numerous in the Pantanal and are prey to spectacled caiman waiting for the chicks to fall from the tree. In Bangladesh , the Ganges and Brahmaputra join together to form the world's largest river delta and create the largest mangrove forest known as the Sundarbans . The mangroves of Indonesia provide a home to crab-eating macaques for their aquatic lifestyle. The programme ends in North America where 400,000 flocks of snow geese settle in the estuaries to rest and refuel on their long migrational journey. Planet Earth Diaries: Diving with Piranhas shows how a camera crew filmed a piranha feeding frenzy in Brazil —after a two-week search for the opportunity. 04 Caves This episode explores "Planet Earth's final frontier": caves . At a depth of 400 meters (1,300  ft), Mexico's Cave of Swallows is Earth's deepest pit cave freefall drop, allowing entry by BASE jumpers . Its volume could contain New York City 's Empire State Building . In this episode divers explore the otherworldly cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula , appearing to be flying in water (because it is so clear), allowing viewers a glimpse of the hundreds of kilometers of caves that have already been mapped. The Waitomo Caves with the Arachnocampa luminosa is also shown. Also featured is Borneo 's Deer Cave and Gomantong Cave . Inhabitants of the former include three million wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat , which have deposited guano on to an enormous mound. In Gomantong Cave , guano is many metres high and is blanketed with hundreds of thousands of cockroaches and other invertebrates. Also depicted are eyeless, subterranean creatures, such as the Texas blind salamander and (bizarrely) a species of crab . Carlsbad Caverns National Park is featured with its calcite formations. Mexico's Cueva de Villa Luz is also featured, with its flowing stream of sulphuric acid and snottite formations made of living bacteria. A fish species, the shortfin molly, has adapted to this habitat. The program ends in New Mexico 's Lechuguilla Cave (discovered in 1986) where sulphuric acid has produced unusually ornate, gypsum crystal formations. Planet Earth Diaries: Into the Abyss reveals how a camera team spent a month among the cockroaches on the guano mound in Gomantong Cave and describes the logistics required to photograph Lechuguilla. Permission for the latter took two years and local authorities are unlikely to allow another visit. 05 Deserts This installment features the harsh environment that covers one-third of the land on Earth: the deserts . Due to Siberian winds, Mongolia 's Gobi Desert reaches extremes of temperature like no other, ranging from −40 °C to +50 °C (−40 °F to 122 °F). It is home to the rare Wild Bactrian camel , which eats snow to maintain its fluid level and must limit itself to 10 liters (2.6 U.S. gal; 2.2 imp gal) a day if it is not to prove fatal. Africa 's Sahara is the size of the United States, and just one of its severe dust storms could cover the whole of Great Britain . While some creatures, such as the dromedary , take them in their stride, for others the only escape from such bombardments is to bury themselves in the sand. Few rocks can resist them either and the outcrops shown in Egypt 's White Desert are being inexorably eroded. The biggest dunes (300 m or 1,000 ft high) are found in Namibia , while other deserts featured are Death Valley in California and Nevada , the Sonoran in Arizona , the deserts of Utah , all in the United States, the Atacama in Chile , and areas of the Australian outback. Animals are shown searching for food and surviving in such an unforgiving habitat: African elephants that walk up to 80 kilometers (50 mi) per day to find food; lions (hunting oryx ); red kangaroos (which moisten their forelegs with saliva to keep cool); nocturnal fennec foxes , acrobatic flat lizards feeding on black flies , and dueling Nubian ibex . The final sequence illustrates one of nature's most fearsome spectacles: a billion-strong plague of desert locusts , destroying all vegetation in its path. Planet Earth Diaries: Wild Camel Chase explains how the hunt for the elusive Bactrian camels necessitated a two-month trek in Mongolia. 06 Ice Worlds The sixth program looks at the regions of the Arctic and Antarctica . The latter contains 90% of the world's ice, and stays largely deserted until the spring, when visitors arrive to harvest its waters. Snow petrels take their place on nunataks and begin to court, but are preyed on by south polar skuas . During summer, a pod of humpback whales hunt krill by creating a spiraling net of bubbles. The onset of winter sees the journey of emperor penguins to their breeding grounds, 160 kilometers (99 mi) inland. Their eggs transferred to the males for safekeeping, the females return to the ocean while their partners huddle into large groups to endure the extreme cold. At the northern end of the planet, Arctic residents include musk oxen , who are hunted by Arctic foxes and wolves . A female polar bear and her two cubs head off across the ice to look for food. As the sun melts the ice, a glimpse of the Earth's potential future reveals a male polar bear that is unable to find a firm footing anywhere and has to resort to swimming—which he cannot do indefinitely. His desperate need to eat brings him to a colony of walrus . Although he attacks repeatedly, the herd is successful in evading him by returning to the sea. Wounded and unable to feed, the bear will not survive. Meanwhile, back in Antarctica, the eggs of the emperor penguins finally hatch while two adult Polar bear cubs from Arctic travels onward as they wander across vast track of frozen ocean independently from their mother. Planet Earth Diaries: Alive in the Freezer tells of the battle with the elements to obtain the penguin footage and of unwelcome visits from polar bears. 07 Great Plains This episode deals with savanna , steppe , tundra , prairie , and looks at the importance and resilience of grasses in such treeless ecosystems. Their vast expanses contain the largest concentration of animal life. In Outer Mongolia , a herd of Mongolian gazelle flee a bush fire and is forced to find new grazing, but grass self-repairs rapidly and soon reappears. Over Africa's savanna, a swarm of 1.5 billion red-billed queleas are caught on camera, the largest flock of birds ever depicted. [ 21 ] On the Arctic tundra during spring, millions of migratory snow geese arrive to breed and their young are preyed on by Arctic foxes. Meanwhile, time-lapse photography depicts moving herds of caribou as a calf is brought down by a chasing wolf. On the North American prairie, bison engage in the ritual to establish the dominant males. In Veld of South Africa , flowers began to openly bloom every summer allowing Ostriches and springboks to thrive before nightfall. The Tibetan Plateau is the highest of the plains and despite its relative lack of grass, animals do survive there, including yak and wild ass . However, the area's most numerous resident is the pika , whose nemesis is the Tibetan fox . In tropical India, the tall grasses hide some of the largest creatures,such as Indian Elephants and Indian rhinoceros , and also the smallest, such as the pygmy hog and Lesser florican . The final sequence depicts African bush elephants that are forced to share a waterhole with a pride of thirty lions. The insufficient water makes it an uneasy alliance and the latter gain the upper hand during the night when their hunger drives them to hunt and eventually kill one of the pachyderms. Planet Earth Diaries: Shot in the Dark explains how the lion hunt was filmed in darkness using infrared light. 08 Jungles This episode examines jungles and tropical rainforests . These environments occupy only 3% of the land yet are home to over half of the world's species. New Guinea is inhabited by almost 40 kinds of birds of paradise , which avoid conflict with each other by living in different parts of the island. Some of their elaborate courtship displays are shown. Within the dense forest canopy , sunlight is prized, and the death of a tree triggers a race by saplings to fill the vacant space. Figs are a widespread and popular food, and as many as 44 types of bird and monkey have been observed picking from a single tree. The sounds of the jungle throughout the day are explored, from the early morning calls of siamangs and orangutans to the nocturnal cacophony of courting tree frogs . The importance of fungi to the Amazon rainforest is illustrated by a sequence of them fruiting, including a parasite that infested insects, called cordyceps . In Borneo , nocturnal colugo is one of the rare species ever discovered and travels two miles while foraging for young leaves. The mutual benefits of the relationship between carnivorous pitcher plants and red crab spiders is also discussed. In the Congo , roaming forest elephants are shown reaching a clearing to feed on essential clay minerals within the mud. Finally, chimpanzees are one of the few jungle animals able to traverse both the forest floor and the canopy in search of food. In Uganda , members of a 150-strong community of the primates mount a raid into neighboring territory in order to gain control of it. Planet Earth Diaries: Trouble in Paradise looks at filming displaying birds of paradise, focusing mainly on the filming of the six-plumed bird of paradise . [ 23 ] "Jungles" served as a major inspiration in developing the video game The Last of Us , which features a mutated strain of the cordyceps fungus infecting humans and almost destroying mankind. 09 Shallow Seas This program is devoted to the shallow seas that fringe the world's continents . Although they constitute 8% of the oceans, they contain most marine life. As humpback whales return to breeding grounds in the tropics, a mother and her calf are followed. While the latter takes in up to 500 liters of milk a day, its parent will starve until it travels back to the poles to feed—and it must do this while it still has sufficient energy left for the journey. The coral reefs of Indonesia are home to the biggest variety of ocean dwellers, including the Pygmy seahorses , and file clam . Other ocean dwellers such as banded sea kraits , which ally themselves with goatfish and trevally in order to hunt. Beyond the coral stretches the world of shifting sands, ocean dwellers, such as Gurnard , Jawfish , Green sea turtle , and Wonderpus octopus , are forced to cope with their environment through crucial camouflage and foraging where they have nowhere else hide. In Shark Bay of Western Australia , Dugongs forage across the largest aquatic grassland eating tons of seagrasses a day while bottlenose dolphins perform their "hydroplane" in the shallowest waters to catch a meal. Meanwhile in the desert shores of Bahrain , 100,000 Socotra cormorants rely on shamals that blow sand grains into the nearby Persian Gulf , transforming it into a rich fishing ground. The appearance of algae in the spring starts a food chain that leads to an abundant harvest of Salps , Krills , and comb jellies . As shoals of migratory fish feasts on the krill, sea lions and dusky dolphins are among those taking advantage of it. Within the coastline of California , Giant kelps fertilizes algaes making them the tallest kelps ever recorded which causes group of Sea urchins to infest them creating urchin barrens. Within the urchin barrens, group of starfishes , sand dollars , and brittle stars scavenge across the barrens while facing against their fierce predator, Sunflower sea star . In Southern Africa , as chokka squid are preyed on by short-tail stingray and sand tiger shark , the Cape fur seals that share the waters are hunted by the world's largest predatory fish—the great white shark . On Marion Island in the Indian Ocean , a group of king penguins must cross a beach occupied by neighboring southern elephant seals that are harmless to them and predatory Antarctic fur seals that do not hesitate to attack them. In spring, The humpback whales ended their winter migration as they travel to the polar seas of the Bering Sea along with five million shearwaters , migrated from Australia, as they flourish across the shallow waters for krill. The program ends with the mother and calf, who is now old enough to separate with its mother and continues its epic journey across the ocean. Planet Earth Diaries: Shark Quest shows the difficulties of filming the one-second strike of a great white shark, filmed by Simon King . 10 Seasonal Forests The penultimate episode surveys the coniferous and deciduous seasonal woodland habitats—the most extensive forests on Earth. Conifers begin sparsely in the subarctic but soon dominate the land, and the taiga circles the globe, containing a third of all the Earth's trees. Few creatures can survive the Arctic climate year round, but the moose , capercaillie , and wolverine are exceptions. 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) to the south, on the Pacific coast of North America, conifers have reached their full potential. These include some of the world's tallest trees : the redwoods . Here, a pine marten is shown stalking a squirrel , and great grey owl chicks take their first flight. Further south still, in Chile 's Valdivian forests , a population of smaller animals exist, including the pudú and the kodkod . During spring in a European broad-leafed forest, a mandarin duck leads its day-old family to leap from its tree trunk nest to the leaf litter below. The Bialowieza Forest typifies the habitat that characterized Europe around 6,000 years ago: only a fragment remains in Poland and Belarus . On a summer night on North America's east coast, periodical cicadas emerge en masse to mate—an event that occurs every seventeen years. After revisiting Russia's Amur leopards in winter, a time-lapse sequence illustrates the effect of the ensuing spring on the deciduous forest floor. In India's teak forests, a langur monkey strays too far from the chital that act as its sentinels and falls prey to a tiger . In Madagascar , mouse lemurs feed on the nectar of flowering baobab trees. Planet Earth Diaries: Forest Fliers explains how aerial shots of the baobab were achieved by the use of a cinebulle, an adapted hot air balloon . 11 Ocean Deep The final installment concentrates on the least explored area of the planet—the deep ocean . It begins with a whale shark used as a shield by a shoal of bait fish to protect themselves from yellowfin tuna . Also shown is an oceanic whitetip shark trailing rainbow runners. Meanwhile, a 500-strong school of dolphins head for the Azores , where they work together to feast on scad mackerel along with a flock of shearwaters . Down in the ocean's furthest reaches, some creatures defy classification. Beneath the dark seafloor, Deep sea creatures such as the sea spider filtering on marine snow, sawtooth eel gazing upward for prey shimmering from above the surface, Dumbo octopus roaming through the dark void, Vampire squid performing a special display of defense and predation, Monkfish luring prey for necessities, and the spider crab bid their time, awaiting carrion from above along with eels and giant isopods . The volcanic mountain chain at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean also sustains life through the bacteria that surround its sulphide vents which allows shrimps to feed. Within the Western Pacific bordering Japan lies the Dragon chimneys erupted from thermal vents where different forms of bacteria thrives. In Atlantic , Squat lobsters settle near the hydrothermal vents grazing on bacteria. From the depths of Galapagos Island at the site of the Nine North, the chimneys provides energy for tube worms to grow and support settlement, but after nine months the chimneys turns cold causing the tube worms to wither and extinguished. There are thought to be around 30,000 undersea volcanoes , some of them taller than Mount Everest . Their sheer cliffs provide anchorage for several corals and sponges. Nearer the surface, the currents that surround these seamounts force nutrients up from below and thus marine life around them is abundant, which allows the Nautilus to forage freely before retreat to the depth. Thirty miles away, the shoal of squids jets upwards to the stream to hunt small fish and plankton while avoiding the pacific spotted dolphins as they use sonar to confuse their prey. The giant Mola Mola settle at reef for cleaning via butterfly fish feeding parasites and cool temperature. Ascension Island is a nesting ground for frigatebirds and green turtles . Off the Mexican coast, a large group of sailfish feed on another shoal of bait fish, changing color to signal their intentions to each other, allowing them to coordinate their attack. The last sequence depicts the largest animal on Earth—the blue whale , of which 300,000 once roamed the world's oceans with 3000 individuals roam the planet which they are now fewer than 3% remain. Planet Earth Diaries: Ocean Wanderers shows the search in the Bahamas for oceanic whitetip sharks. 12 Saving Species The first program of  Planet Earth: The Future asks if there really is an extinction crisis facing certain species. Alastair Fothergill, executive producer of Planet Earth , admits that making the series was a bittersweet experience since some creatures were filmed with the knowledge that their continued existence is under threat. David Attenborough believes that conservation of the natural world is something that can unite humanity if people know enough about it. Cameraman Martyn Colbeck relates that every single day during a six-week African visit to film for "Jungles", he and his crew were awakened by the sound of gunshots. Poaching can quickly wipe out a population, and David Greer of the World Wide Fund for Nature explains that in 2005 his team confiscated 70 guns in the area – a 700% increase from 1999. Other featured animals at risk include the walia ibex , the snow leopard , the boto , and saiga antelope . The attack of a polar bear on a walrus colony on dry land in "Ice Worlds" was a rare occurrence. Footage from a 1997 BBC Wildlife Special shows the bears hunting smaller prey on sea ice. Species have always become extinct, but now, the viewer is told, the rate of extinction is accelerating (see Holocene extinction ) and it will "really reach biblical proportions within a few decades." Mankind is urged to respect biodiversity : it is estimated that if a monetary value could be put on all that the world's ecosystems do for humanity, it would total some US$ 30 trillion. 13 Into the Wilderness The second part of  Planet Earth: The Future looks at man's potential effect on the world's areas of wilderness . As the human population has grown, only a quarter of Earth's land now remains uninhabited (aside from Antarctica ). Although around 12% is protected, this may not be enough – providing such places are not just 'enclosures' and bordering territories are also managed. Ethiopia 's Semien Mountains are increasingly encroached upon for farming land, and this example leads to the question of overpopulation . Some interviewees argue that it is not just about numbers: how humans consume their natural resources is also important. However, others believe that the world would be greatly more sustainable if the population level was reduced to about half its current level. Jonathon Porritt believes that this could be achieved simply: by good education on family planning . Consumption of fresh water is highlighted: there are now 40,000 more dams in existence than in 1950. The controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is discussed by both its advocates and opponents. E. O. Wilson 's concept of biophilia is discussed, and David Attenborough believes that a child's innate love of wildlife, for whatever reason, is being lost in adulthood. An answer to deforestation is found in Costa Rica , where farmers are paid to allow their pasture to revert to forest for its water ecosystem services . This episode also deals with climate change and related global warming , which is now happening at a faster rate than ever before. 14 Living Together The last episode of the combined series deals with the future of conservation. It begins by looking at previous efforts. The 'Save The Whales' campaign, which started in the 1960s, is seen to have had a limited effect, as whaling continues and fish stocks also decline. In the 1990s, as head of the Kenya Wildlife Service , Richard Leakey took on the poachers by employing armed units. Although it was successful in saving elephants , the policy was detrimental to the Maasai people , who were forced from their land. The need for "fortress" areas is questioned, and the recently highlighted Raja Ampat coral reef in Indonesia is an example. The more tourism it generates, the greater the potential for damage – and inevitable coastal construction. Sustainable development is viewed as controversial, and one contributor perceives it to currently be a "contradiction in terms". Trophy hunting is also contentious. Those that support it argue that it generates wealth for local economies, while its opponents point to the reducing numbers of species such as the markhor . Ecotourism is shown to be beneficial, as it is in the interests of its providers to protect their environments. However, in some areas, such as the Borneo rainforests , the great diversity of species is being replaced by monocultures . The role of both religion and the media in conservation is argued to be extremely important. Contributors to the program admit a degree of worry about the future, but also optimism. "We live on a planet we can never truly appreciate. None of us will ever see or experience even a fraction of its beauty or complexity. But using groundbreaking aerial surveillance techniques and state-of-the-art high-definition technology, the Planet Earth team has succeeded in bringing the wonders of the natural world into our living rooms." Please Protect our Fragile Planet!!!