A postage stamp of the giant kauri Tane Mahuta was an eight-year old David Bellamy's first introduction to New Zealand. In this episode of Moa’s Ark Bellamy attempts to hug the nearly 14m girth of Tane Mahuta and explores New Zealand's ancient forests and the fight to save them from destruction (including the famous campaigns to save Whirinaki and Puerora Forests when protestors chained themselves to enormous totara to prevent their milling). Also features the extraterresstrial underwater forest deep under Milford Sound.
The billboards hawking Aotearoa to international visitors sell the experience and environment as ‘100% Pure'. But why is New Zealand's landscape and flora and fauna so unique? Renowned English naturalist David Bellamy, with his ...
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Television, 1990 (Full Length Episode)
The second programme in this series.
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| 06.10.2009
Englishman David Bellamy is a world famous botanist, author, broadcaster and conservationist. He came to prominence in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s with numerous natural history programmes. His trademark beard...
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