Moa's Ark
June 29, 2014 3:27 AM Subscribe
Moa’s Ark (1990)
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 famous lisp and impassioned enthusiasm, goes on a journey to discover the answer in this four part series produced by Television New Zealand's Natural History Unit.
Read a brief series synopsis if you like before diving in. Each episode is broken down into five clips.
Total time: 3:37:18
Some of my favourite bits include:
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 famous lisp and impassioned enthusiasm, goes on a journey to discover the answer in this four part series produced by Television New Zealand's Natural History Unit.
Read a brief series synopsis if you like before diving in. Each episode is broken down into five clips.
- Episode 1: Building the Ark (0:52:07)
- Episode 2: Invaders of the Last Ark (1:00:35)
- Episode 3: Stamp of the Giants (0:52:19)
- Episode 4: To the Lifeboats (0:52:17)
Total time: 3:37:18
Some of my favourite bits include:
- E1 Clip 1 - Meat pie tectonics (towards the end of the clip)
- E1 Clip 3 - The Taupo eruption and the Napier earthquake
- E2 Clip 3 - Making a Maori cloak. Traditional Maori foods.
- E3 Clip 5 - Kauri trees and Tane Mahuta
- E4 - The entirety of which charters New Zealand's experience creating "lifeboats" - pest-free islands where natural flora and fauna have a chance to survive away from those threats.
I grew up watching his natural history programs, he's an excellent and enthusiastic presenter. I hadn't heard of him being a climate change denier.
posted by arcticseal at 9:43 AM on June 29, 2014
posted by arcticseal at 9:43 AM on June 29, 2014
The meat pie tectonics is so memorable.
posted by slightlybewildered at 9:10 PM on June 29, 2014
posted by slightlybewildered at 9:10 PM on June 29, 2014
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