emsiecat
August 13th, 2008, 04:15 pm
I've been watching a brilliant but sadly short documentry series on BBC1 over the last three weeks.
It's called Lost Land of the Jaguar and is about a group of British naturalists (and international explorers) who go into the remote jungle of Guyana in South America to catalogue the species that live there and approach the president of the area to ask that it not be used for logging. Guyana is the size of Great Britain and is unprotected land. The UK may offer the country carbon credits if they keep the jungle intact isntead of felling it for money.
I have to say the best episode was the last one (probably won't be on YouTube yet) episode three. In it the climber Steve ascends a table topped mountain that nobody has successfully scaled or stayed at the top of before in search of rare creatures. Amazingly he manages to find evidence of mammals living in the harsh, remote area. Sounds a bit like Mt. Queyna (or however you spell it) lol.
Well here ya go, the first part of the first episode, in amazingly crappy quality unfortunately!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOhZwf5RIDI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/jaguar/ <--- This is the official website link btw
It's called Lost Land of the Jaguar and is about a group of British naturalists (and international explorers) who go into the remote jungle of Guyana in South America to catalogue the species that live there and approach the president of the area to ask that it not be used for logging. Guyana is the size of Great Britain and is unprotected land. The UK may offer the country carbon credits if they keep the jungle intact isntead of felling it for money.
I have to say the best episode was the last one (probably won't be on YouTube yet) episode three. In it the climber Steve ascends a table topped mountain that nobody has successfully scaled or stayed at the top of before in search of rare creatures. Amazingly he manages to find evidence of mammals living in the harsh, remote area. Sounds a bit like Mt. Queyna (or however you spell it) lol.
Well here ya go, the first part of the first episode, in amazingly crappy quality unfortunately!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOhZwf5RIDI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/jaguar/ <--- This is the official website link btw