Long isolated and the last land mass to be settled, New Zealand contains a world of Alice Through the Looking Glass natural oddities: birds, insects and plants like nowhere else. Jared Diamond remarked, "it is the nearest approach to life on another planet". Front-running camera techniques (earning a Merit Award at 2002 International Wildlife Film Festival) and Māori myth reveal these Ghosts of Gondwana, delving into the night-time world of ancient forests: bat-filled tree trunk saunas, “demon grasshopper” weta, and furry kiwi with chopstick bills.
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Television, 1997 (Excerpts)
A sobering documentary on the plight of the Kiwi
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Another award-winning natural history story directed by Rod Morris
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Another award-winning natural history story directed by Rod Morris
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Posted at 07.15PM - 14.02.2010
George Gibbs wrote a book by the same title
http://www.craigpotton.co.nz/products/published/books/booksocial/ghostsofgondwana