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 Wildlife of the Mountains
 Seven Black Robins
 Footrot Flats
 Moa's Ark : Invaders of the Last Ark
 Moa's Ark : Stamp of the Giants
 Moa's Ark : Building the Ark

Synopsis

Predators (possums, rats, rabbits, deer) may have forced many of Moa's Ark's cargo to abandon ship and to live on off-shore island lifeboats, but in visiting them (and recently-established mainland 'islands'), Bellamy tells some of the most important and dramatic conservation stories in the world. Includes footage of kokako and its haunting song, cheeky kaka parrots, tieke (saddleback), hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin), black robin, fierce looking wetapunga (giant weta), and the Castle Hill buttercup (the world's rarest).

Background

A series perspective by Paul Stanley Ward 17.11.2008

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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Credits (6)

 Peter Hayden

Peter Hayden
Director, Producer

 Michael Stedman

Michael Stedman
Executive Producer

 Peter Simkins

Peter Simkins
Editor

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