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Home | Geography | Ecosystems and Biomes

Tropical rainforests

1: Congo | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

1: Congo | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2024 | 58'42''

Simon Reeve battles his way across the Congo, braving thick jungle and tropical swamps in search of the people and the wildlife who ma...

1: The Waimaha | Tribe with Bruce Parry

1: The Waimaha | Tribe with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2025 | 59'05''

Deep in the Amazon, Bruce Parry undergoes a brutal training regime to prepare his mind and body to take ayahuasca and understand how ...

1: Tropical Worlds | The Green Planet

1: Tropical Worlds | The Green Planet

Biology | BBC One | 2022 | 58'43''

Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspec...

2: Indonesia | Equator

2: Indonesia | Equator

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'06''

In Indonesia he encounters paradise islands undiscovered by tourists and an environment under threat.

2: South America | Equator from the Air

2: South America | Equator from the Air

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2020 | 59'20''

In South America, Gordon flies over the Amazon in search of illegal loggers, and in the Andes he meets conservationists searching for...

3: Amazon | Nature’s Microworlds

3: Amazon | Nature’s Microworlds

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Four | 2012 | 28'58''

Steve Backshall lifts the lid on an incredible world of intricate relationships and unexpected hardship in the Amazon rainforest, expl...

3: Latin America | Equator

3: Latin America | Equator

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'07''

Simon meets the Galapagos islands' unique wildlife, climbs an Ecuador volcano, crosses Colombia and ends his journey in Brazil.

4: Jungles – People of the Trees | Human Planet

4: Jungles – People of the Trees | Human Planet

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2011 | 58'58''

Series examining man's survival in extreme environments. A look at life in the rainforest, which requires great skill, ...

6: Rainforests | Deep into the Wild

6: Rainforests | Deep into the Wild

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2002 | 29'12''

With deadly snakes, billions of bugs, flamboyant birdlife and tree topping monkeys, Nick gets to grips with the explosion of wildlife in ...

Battle for the Amazon | Amazon Specials

Battle for the Amazon | Amazon Specials

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2005 | 29'06''

What has happened to the Amazon rainforest since the 1980s? This report reveals that the battle for the Amazon is now fiercer than ever.

Brazil 2000: 4: Resources: Carajas | The Geography Programme

Brazil 2000: 4: Resources: Carajas | The Geography Programme

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1996 | 20'11''

Programme looking at Carajas in the Amazon forest featuring an iron ore mine. The mine is tapping Brazil's natur...

Canopyworld | Jungle

Canopyworld | Jungle

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2003 | 58'36''

Charlotte climbs high among the Borneo treetops in an attempt to reach the notoriously inaccessible rainforest canopy. Teeming with life at 200 feet up,...

Catching one of the world’s largest snakes | Tribes, Predators & Me

Catching one of the world’s largest snakes | Tribes, Predators & Me

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2016 | 1'36''

Gordon joins Waorani men catching a huge green anaconda In Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.

Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl

Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2018 | 58'58''

Chris Packham returns to Sumatra to search for a girl from a nomadic tribe he photographed 20 years ago to discover what has happen...

Episode 1 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 1 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'10''

Bruce Parry begins an epic adventure in the Amazon. The first part of his journey takes him from the High Andes to the Ashaninka tribe.

Episode 1 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 1 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'10''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. The team search for the elusive clouded ...

Episode 2 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 2 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'07''

Bruce Parry voyages along the entire length of the Amazon. Continuing his trip, the adventurer wears a black dress for an extremely unusu...

Episode 2 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 2 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 28'59''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. The team begins searching for jungle ele...

Episode 2 | I Bought a Rainforest

Episode 2 | I Bought a Rainforest

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'09''

Series following wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James, who has bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Four months on, Charlie's gran...

Episode 2 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Episode 2 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Biology | BBC One | 2009 | 58'31''

A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.

Episode 2 | Simon Reeve’s South America

Episode 2 | Simon Reeve’s South America

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2022 | 59'05''

Simon travels through Brazil, from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the coast and the glamorous-but-troubled city of Rio d...

Episode 3 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 3 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'06''

Bruce Parry travels to a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon to explore what happens when the outside world makes contact. He visits the ...

Episode 3 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 3 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'04''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. One of the team is bitten by a deadly co...

Episode 3 | I Bought a Rainforest

Episode 3 | I Bought a Rainforest

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'17''

Series following Charlie Hamilton James, who bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Charlie learns if you want to protect the rainforest ...

Episode 3 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Episode 3 | Lost Land of the Volcano

Biology | BBC One | 2009 | 58'11''

A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.

Episode 4 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 4 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'58''

Bruce Parry reaches the halfway point of his epic journey in the vast nature reserve of Mamiraua, home to the Amazon's most iconic specie...

Episode 4 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 4 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'08''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. They find extraordinary cave paintings m...

Episode 5 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 5 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'00''

Bruce Parry explores the Amazon rainforest. He meets the millionaires of Manaus, lives and works with illegal gold miners and sleeps in t...

Episode 5 | Expedition Borneo

Episode 5 | Expedition Borneo

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2007 | 29'08''

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo. A network of caverns never explored by h...

Episode 6 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Episode 6 | Amazon with Bruce Parry

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'55''

Bruce Parry reaches the end of his Amazon adventure in Brazil's Para state where huge areas of forest are being cut down for cattle farming.

Fungi | Planet Earth

Fungi | Planet Earth

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2006 | 3'17''

The high humidity of the rainforest creates the ideal environment for life built on decay.

Heights of diversity | The Living Planet

Heights of diversity | The Living Planet

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 1984 | 2'36''

David Attenborough discusses the rainforest climate and explains where earth's rainforests are located.

I Bought a Rainforest

I Bought a Rainforest

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'16''

Series following wildlife cameraman Charlie Hamilton James, who has bought 100 acres of Peruvian rainforest. Charlie establishes camp and makes some un...

Lost Land of the Volcano

Lost Land of the Volcano

Biology | BBC One | 2009 | 58'32''

A team of scientists and film-makers explores the jungle wilderness of New Guinea.

S1E1: Anaconda People of the Amazon | Tribes, Predators & Me

S1E1: Anaconda People of the Amazon | Tribes, Predators & Me

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'47''

Gordon Buchanan joins a Waorani tribal family in Ecuador's Amazon jungle as they search for giant anacondas.

S1E2: Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

S1E2: Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'06''

Giles Coren and Monica Galetti head to the Andean Cloud Forest of Ecuador to work at Mashpi Lodge, a $10-...

S1E3: Crocodile People of New Guinea | Tribes, Predators & Me

S1E3: Crocodile People of New Guinea | Tribes, Predators & Me

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'30''

Gordon Buchanan journeys up Papua New Guinea's Sepik River to meet the remarkable tribes who have learnt t...

S1E6: Sanema | Tribe

S1E6: Sanema | Tribe

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2005 | 59'00''

The remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the tribe, ...

S2E1: The Tropics | Spy in the Wild

S2E1: The Tropics | Spy in the Wild

Biodiversity and Human Impact | BBC One | 2020 | 58'03''

The spy creatures infiltrate a hippo pod, a nursery of red flying foxes and the secret world of pygmy forest elephants.

S3E1: Matis | Tribe

S3E1: Matis | Tribe

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2007 | 58'47''

Explorer Bruce Parry travels to the Amazon rainforest to live with the Matis, a tribe once devastated by western disease who are determined to preserve t...

S3E6: Penan | Tribe

S3E6: Penan | Tribe

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2007 | 59'16''

Explorer Bruce Parry treks into the jungles of Sarawak, Borneo, in search of the last nomadic Penan. The Penan are hunter-gatherers whose forest home is ...

S4E7: Borneo | Deadly 60

S4E7: Borneo | Deadly 60

Ecosystems and Biomes | CBBC | 2020 | 28'14''

Although we can't just stop using palm oil - farmers need to grow it to provide an income for their families and as a product it's highly efficient ...

S6E5: Datai Langkawi, Malaysia | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

S6E5: Datai Langkawi, Malaysia | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC Two | 2024 | 58'59''

Rob and Monica travel to the Malaysian rainforest to work at the Datai Langkawi hotel, where monkeys r...

Saving the Rainforest | From Above

Saving the Rainforest | From Above

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC News | 2024 | 9'13''

See the incredible journey a group of scientists make to explore a once hidden forest in Mozambique. The team discovered new species that ...

Species of tree | Planet Earth

Species of tree | Planet Earth

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2006 | 5'12''

In the New Guinea rainforest, different species of tree fight for sunlight.

Underworld | Jungle

Underworld | Jungle

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2003 | 59'25''

Charlotte Uhlenbroek travels to the Congo rainforest to investigate the wildlife of the forest floor.

Water | Planet Earth

Water | Planet Earth

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2006 | 1'48''

The water cycle in rainforests.

Waterworld | Jungle

Waterworld | Jungle

Ecosystems and Biomes | BBC One | 2003 | 58'20''

Charlotte Uhlenbroek travels along the Amazon river, from its headwaters in the high Andes to enormous forested floodplains.

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