November 6, 2000 • 49m
The opening episode traces the events that have created the unique landforms and ecology of South America. Originally part of the ...Read more
November 13, 2000 • 49m
The second programme shows how life along the Amazon River is dominated by the annual cycle of floods. In the dry season, female g...Read more
November 20, 2000 • 49m
The third instalment features Brazil's Cerrado grasslands and the Pantanal, the largest seasonal swamp on Earth. The plains have p...Read more
November 27, 2000 • 49m
In the fourth programme, the viewer is taken on a journey along the Andes, the spine of the continent. In the northern tropics, sp...Read more
December 11, 2000 • 49m
Episode five covers the Amazon rainforest, home to more varieties of plants and animals than anywhere else on Earth. Despite the p...Read more
December 18, 2000 • 49m
The final programme begins in the Falkland Islands, where thousands of rockhopper penguins negotiate the treacherous wave-swept co...Read more