Human Planet
Human Planet is an eight-part British-French documentary series. It was created in collaboration between Discovery Channel and France Télévisions. Human Planet describes the relationship between man and nature and shows the impact of human development on its environment.
On Servus TV series ran under the Germanized title Planet of the people, but BBC Germany uses the original English title.
The ZDF series Terra X beamed in August / September 2012 in three episodes highlights under the titles of life on the water, living in the jungle and living in the desert from which previously ran on ZDFneo.
Episodes
1 "Oceans - departure into the blue "
2 "Desert - The great fire "
Deserts cover one third of the mainland on the earth. If you want to survive in these widths merciless drought, must develop incredible creativity.
Despite climate change, many people have in the polar region to overcome similar challenges for millennia. In Greenland they catch sharks with his bare hands and pull -ton animals through small holes in the ice. In Norway, shepherds bring thousands of reindeer to to plunge into an icy fjord. And in the northeast of Canada through shell collectors around the low tide of the equinox under the ice to collect seafood.
The jungle of the earth are landscapes with the greatest abundance of life, but also with the greatest competitive pressure. People have always tried restrictions on the dark forest floor to overcome - with rituals or mind-altering substances, with remote chemical weapons and dizzying structures: The Korowai in the jungles of New Guinea build huge tree houses totaling 35 meters, only with muscle power and stone-age technology.
Mountains are among the most ruthless habitats on earth: oxygen deficiency, extreme weather fluctuations, high UV exposure. To live under these adverse conditions, requires exceptional work methods. In the Mongolian Altai people hunt together with eagles. In the mountain forests of New Guinea huge traps for flying foxes to be built. And in Indonesia penetrate miners in front of an open volcano to reduce sulfur.
6 "Prairie - The roots of our success "
In broad grasslands man could fully develop his skills: breed animals, experimenting with crops and form large communities. In many grasslands of the world still live people under the conditions of our ancestors: In Kenya, steal men - without the use of weapons - a pride of lions prey. And in Cambodia already show children as intrepid snake hunter.
7 " rivers - sources of life "
To this day, people everywhere live in the world in close connection with the forces of nature. What incredible creativity we have developed here, this new, groundbreaking documentary series. Whether ice deserts, tropical islands or inaccessible valleys - each habitat has formed a special form of human civilization, a vital and fascinating than the other.
8 " cities - Jungle from his own hand "
Big cities are, even in its highest form engineered always natural areas - albeit often in an unexpected form. In Dubai make falconers hunting pigeons. In Colorado, the traffic is routed around the elk. And the Indian rhesus monkey thieving Jaipur drive market traders to despair. Quite different the relationship to nature in the Bishnoi women: drag orphaned cubs on her own breast milk.