Nat Geo<\/a> partnered with National Geographic Society\u2019s global community of Explorers and scientists and Rolex\u2019s Perpetual Planet Initiative to make the seven-series franchise.<\/p>\nNat Geo president Courteney Monroe says that the partnership demonstrates a \u201cshared commitment to protecting our natural world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s proof of what\u2019s possible when storytelling, science and a shared sense of purpose come together,\u201d says Monroe. \u201cThrough this collaboration, we are expanding what natural history storytelling can reveal, whose voices it can elevate and how deeply it can connect audiences to the wonders of our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfrica Earth\u2019s Wild Home\u201d is narrated and executive produced by Academy Award nominee Wunmi Mosaku. It was filmed in nearly 30 African countries and used new technology and cutting-edge CGI to reveal the continent\u2019s history and the forces that shaped its natural environments. To capture how Africa\u2019s varied ecosystems shape the animals that live within them, film crews were sent to deserts, forests, jungles, mountains and islands.<\/p>\n
Showrunner and series editor Gavin Boyland says Africa became the first continent in the multi-year franchise because people often associate wildlife with Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfrica has got the best wildlife,\u201d says Boyland. \u201cIt\u2019s got the most spectacle. It\u2019s got the charismatic animals. So, what we wanted to do from the outset is show people a different side of Africa. So, while we absolutely filmed lions and elephants and all the kind of familiar wildlife, we also wanted to show different environments, different landscapes, and different species that live in those landscapes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of reaching out to typical Western researchers and scientists, Boyland and his team went to Africa and approached wildlife guides, drivers, photographers, and locals who saw wildlife daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose people were able to point us towards new behaviors,\u201d says Boyland.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfrica Earth\u2019s Wild Home\u201d features sequences that have never been filmed before, including the smallest crocodile hunting bats in pitch-black caves, a grumpy black rain frog, a flying saucer beetle that digs trenches to harvest water from coastal fog, giant \u201cvegetarian\u201d land tortoises hunting birds, golden wolves hunting pelicans three times their size and a male fossa fighting to gain access to a female\u2019s mating tree.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe series inspires us to look closer, learn more and care more deeply,\u201d says Jill Tiefenthaler, CEO of National Geographic Society. \u201cThat\u2019s the same passion that drives our National Geographic Explorers, who are working every day to understand and protect the natural world. With partners like Rolex and Disney, we magnify the impact of their work, inspiring millions to care about our planet and its future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The final episode in \u201cAfrica Earth\u2019s Wild Home\u201d focuses on conservationists, photographers and scientists whose work safeguarding the continent underpins the series. Both the episode and the series build on a 70-year partnership between National Geographic and Rolex.<\/p>\n
\u201cAcross seven episodes, the extraordinary filmmaking reveals that protecting Africa\u2019s wild heart starts with understanding its fragile ecosystems,\u201d says Rolex director of communication and image Arnaud Boetsch. \u201cBy shining a spotlight on the Explorers and scientists working on the frontlines of conservation, the series promises to spark not just wonder but hope for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfrica Earth\u2019s Wild Home\u201d premieres Oct. 2 on National Geographic and streams on Disney+ and Hulu on Oct. 3. The series was produced by BBC Studios Natural History Unit for National Geographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike most conglomerate-owned media companies, National Geographic is still pouring money into documentaries. Their latest docuseries \u201cAfrica Earth\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,61385,75,476757,128],"class_list":["post-908665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-documentaries-to-watch","tag-environment","tag-nat-geo","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}