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Season 7 Episode 6: Nature of Australia: a Portrait of the Island Continent: the Making of the Bush

Nov 27, 1988 TV-G 53m 8.9

A koala up a gumtree is the classic image of the Australian bush. How that odd partnership evolved is one of the strands woven into this episode of Nature Of Australia. The program tells the story of how the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a great variety of forms - the eucalypt. The nursery for nearly all life in Australia is the rainforest, of which only a few patches remain today - th last remnants of vast, dense forests t...

Season 7 Episodes:

Episode 3 Peacock's War

3. Peacock's War

Aired: Oct 30, 1988

Former Vietnam medic Doug Peacock lives as a firewatcher and conservationist ...

Episode 11 Beyond Timbuktu

11. Beyond Timbuktu

Aired: Feb 5, 1989

Wildlife artist Bruce Pearson sketches the various bird species found in the ...

Episode 13 Wild Waterfalls

13. Wild Waterfalls

Aired: Feb 26, 1989

Explores the variety of local environments found around waterfalls in Africa,...

Episode 15 Icebird

15. Icebird

Aired: Mar 12, 1989

The Adelie penguin is observed at the Cape Bird nesting site on Antarctica's ...

Episode 18 Islands in the Sky

18. Islands in the Sky

Aired: Apr 16, 1989

Unique animals and plants flourish atop mist-shrouded Venezuelan plateaus tho...

Episode 19 Rulers of the Wind

19. Rulers of the Wind

Aired: Apr 30, 1989

Scientists study birds of prey, creatures historically admired and hated, as ...

Info about Nature

Seasons: 42

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Production Countries: Germany, United States

Genres:Family, Documentary