In Canada, more people are killed or injured in vehicular collisions with moose than by all other wildlife species combined. In Newfoundland, where moose densities are the highest in the world, there’s proof that it is indeed Canada’s most dangerous animal.
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Nature’s Stealth Fighter
The Owl’s huge, night-piercing eyes are like a radar, constantly surveying the environment. Once Nature’s Stealth Fighter focuses, its unique first strike capability allows the Owl to swoop in for the kill on swift, silent wings in the dark of night. For most, there is no defense against the Owl. Shot on film and employing the latest cinematography techniques, leading experts guide us to a greater understanding of the Owl and its place in a larger theater.
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Thelon: The Place Where God Began
The Thelon Game Sanctuary, located hundreds of kilometers north of the tree line, is a boreal oasis that should not exist. Rich with wildlife unparalleled on the Arctic barrens, it is both one of the world’s oldest and largest wildlife preserves and in First Nation’s legends revered as the place where God began.
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Weather Bombs
Massive in scale and scope, oceanic Weather Bombs are a new and deadly force of nature to be reckoned with. Yet, Weather Bombs remain illusive and unpredictable. They form suddenly and with little warning. Today, meteorologists scramble to understand and forecast their trajectory while the Coast Guard train elite, special teams to save countless victims. Weather Bombs blends storm science with an exhilarating and dangerous adventure on the high seas in the study of Mother Nature’s newest destructive power.
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Wild Tech
This is the exciting story of how scientists employ cutting edge technology on land, sea and in the air, to study the natural environment in amazing and heretofore impossible ways.
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Killer in Peril
The Pacific coast of North America is the largest laboratory on earth where on-going studies into the state of the Killer Whale reveal startling new information about the oceans we inhabit. Killer in Peril is a sobering report on our planet’s heath told from the unique perspective of an extraordinary animal.
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Last of the Wild Mustangs
In the rugged Rocky Mountain foothills of southern Alberta and the remote interior of central B.C., a once hardy and abundant band of wild horses now faces an uncertain future. With their territory being scarred by clear-cuts and crisscrossed by pipelines, and their very existence being challenged by some who see them as rogue trespassers, many are worried the wild mustangs may become extinct.
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Mars on Earth
This is the story of studying Mars on Earth at Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world located 500 kilometres southwest of the Magnetic North Pole. Devon Island is an analogue to Mars which has made it extremely interesting to NASA. Mars on Earth follows the largest scientific mission on Earth known as the NASA/Haughton-Mars Project. With exclusive access, we follow Dr. Pascal Lee and his team of 60 scientists in their exploration of Mars on Earth.
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Mysteries in the Ice
From the high Arctic, to the Columbia ice fields, from the Yukon’s Mount Logan, to the Pacific coast, the glaciers of Canada are the planet’s most diverse frozen repository of secrets, telling the tale of our past, present and future in magnificent detail.
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Polar Safari
In the winter of 2001, a team of high altitude balloonists embarked on a rare and dangerous expedition over the world’s largest in-land sea – the Hudson Bay. Polar Safari is an adventure across virtually uncharted territory, rarely seen at this time of year and never traversed before by balloon. Along the way, the team encounters the unique people that inhabit the surrounding land and observe spectacular wonders. The expedition’s success put these fearless adventurers into the record books.