Nature - Specials
Run Time: 53 mins
Air Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.8 (39 votes)
PBS44 Episodes
Why Bees Are Important
Season 0 - Episode 1
Scientists and bee experts discuss the crucial role that honeybees, a "keystone species," play in our economy and ecosystems, as well as bee...
Best of Birds
Season 0 - Episode 2
This pledge period special airs throughout December, 2014 and contains segments from 16 of Nature's films about birds.
A Life Among the Clouds: A NATURE Short Film
Season 0 - Episode 3
Join Lisa Dabek and her team with Woodland Park Zoo’s Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program as they journey into the remote cloud forests of Pa...
Running With The Herd: A NATURE Short Film
Season 0 - Episode 4
Biologist Jack Hogg has been studying a herd of wild bighorn sheep on Montana’s National Bison Range for more than 35 years. When Jack’s her...
Living with Snow Leopards – Tashi’s Story: A NATURE Short Film
Season 0 - Episode 5
In the frigid Indian Himalayas, people manage to eke out a living alongside one of Asia’s most elusive cats: the snow leopard. Today there m...
Spend An Hour in Snowy Yellowstone: Sights & Sounds
Season 0 - Episode 6
Sit back, relax, and experience the animals, landscapes, and awe of Yellowstone National Park in winter.
Great Moments with Nature's Filmmakers
Season 0 - Episode 7
A five-year retrospective includes clips from The Flight of the Condor, Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass, Kingdom of the Ice Bear, Cats, The...
The Big Oyster | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 8
New York Harbor was a haven of incredible underwater biodiversity—until centuries of pollution turned it into a cesspool. Today, an alliance...
Beaver Fever | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 9
The surprise return of beavers to the British countryside brings benefits and controversy for humans and wildlife alike. The work of these f...
Woodpecker Wars | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 10
One of the most inspiring conservation stories in American history is playing out on, of all places, a live-fire training ground at Ft. Brag...
Does Nature Have Rights? | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 11
Ecuador is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, yet its wild spaces are also among the most threatened. In 2008, the country bec...
The Beautiful Undammed | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 12
Ten years after the largest dam removal in history—on the Elwha River, in Washington State—scientists are chronicling an inspiring story of ...
Coffee for Water | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 13
Decades of war and unsustainable agriculture have stripped almost half the trees from the rainforest atop Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa. The ...
Salamander of the Gods | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 14
The axolotl—an amphibian with incredible regenerative abilities—is ubiquitous in pet stores, science labs and pop culture, yet almost extinc...
Canine Conservationists | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 15
Dogs are often thought of as humans’ best friends. But in Australia, they’re also being enlisted to save other species. Canine conservationi...
The Serpent's Lair | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 16
In the face of extreme habitat loss, wildlife biologist Dr. Chris Jenkins puts an ambitious plan in motion to save two uniquely American rep...
Vertical Meadows | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 17
As urban expansion quickly replaces natural habitats, façade engineer Alistair Law has discovered a new way to restore native ecosystems for...
Turtle Trackers | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 18
Three species of sea turtles nesting in southeast Florida face a range of manmade threats. Thanks to conservation measures, loggerhead and g...
A Farm Goes Wild | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 19
For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. But as both a farmer and conservationi...
Return of the Manatees | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 20
Crystal River has long been a safe haven for the Florida manatee, but when an invasive algae wiped out the eelgrass that manatees need for f...
Coral Comeback | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 21
Coral reefs around the world are threatened by rising ocean temperatures, but hope is growing off the coast of Hawaii. There, researchers at...
Seabird Sanctuary | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 22
All around the world, seabirds provide a critical link between land and sea. On Hawai’i, ecologists are working to protect two vital shearwa...
Birds on the Brink | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 23
Hawai’i is home to a broad, beautiful array of bird species found only on its islands — like the stunningly diverse honeycreepers, many on t...
Rewilding Rio | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 24
In the middle of Rio de Janeiro sits the world’s largest urban rainforest: Tijuca National park. To combat a century of deforestation and hu...
Gardener to Guardian | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 25
Amid collapsing biodiversity worldwide, Mary Reynolds of Ireland is building a movement to turn gardeners into guardians of the planet by re...
One Golden Chance | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 26
The golden lion tamarin stands as a beacon of hope and survival in the face of extinction after an outbreak of yellow fever led to a loss of...
Rebuilding a Forest | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 27
In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, Mauricio Ruiz has turned his love for nature into action by working with the community to reforest a critical s...
Road Warriors | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 28
Fernanda Abra leads a crucial conservation initiative along the roadways of Brazil, where vehicles annually kill about 475 million vertebrat...
Jaguar Passage | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 29
Jaguar populations are falling worldwide, but the big cats are thriving in Belize, where one-third of the Central American country is protec...
The Frog Ark | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 30
Many of the world’s most beloved frogs and amphibians are headed for extinction, but inside “The Ark” in Panama, some of those threatened sp...
Protecting Paradise | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 31
On Panama’s remote Pearl Islands, marine biologist Callie Veelenturf is using her research on endangered sea turtles to help the country ens...
America's BFF | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 32
Black-footed ferrets, North America’s only native ferret, still depend on humans for survival. That’s why a dedicated team has engineered ne...
Unleaded | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 33
Golden eagles are one of the largest raptors in North America, and their numbers are declining due to an unlikely poison: lead ammunition le...
The Great Ocean Cleanup | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 34
Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from...
Cougar Crossing | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 35
Los Angeles is well known for its celebrities, so when the fearless cougar P-22 gained fame for making its home in the midst of the city, he...
Stork Sisters | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 36
In the northeastern part of India, the greater adjutant stork has been considered an ill omen for generations, and the endangered bird has p...
AI of the Tiger | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 37
In Madhya Pradesh, renowned as India’s “tiger state,” a team installs AI-integrated camera traps to reduce conflict and safeguard lives in a...
Whale Shark Homecoming | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 38
Along the coast of Gujarat, India, a renowned spiritual leader is inspiring fishermen to become guardians of the world’s biggest fish: the e...
Way of the Elephants | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 39
Elephant migration corridors in India are a necessary thoroughfare for one of the planet’s largest animals — but when conflicts with human r...
Pangolin Protectors | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 40
Pangolins are amazing, bizarre, adorable creatures, but due to the demand for their scales on the illegal market, they’re also the most traf...
Guano Gold | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 41
Economic growth and wildlife conservation often run in conflict, but Mozambican scientist Cesária Huo hopes to support a new fully sustainab...
Mission Impossible | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 42
It was a late-career epiphany that led “wacky genius” Pat Brown to abandon his academic career and commit himself to fighting global warming...
Building for Birds | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 43
Millions of birds pass through our yards during their bi-annual migrations, but they face an invisible killer along the way: glass windows. ...
Reclaiming Bear River | WILD HOPE
Season 0 - Episode 44
Over 150 years after suffering the worst massacre in U.S. history, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has purchased their ancestra...