Nature's Microworlds

Season 1 Episode 13: Scottish Highlands

Mar 06, 2013NR30m8.3

Steve Backshall looks at the Scottish Highlands, home to some of the most iconic wildlife in the British Isles. The two contrasting landscapes of open moor and Caledonian forest are both crucially important to their wild inhabitants and yet the history of the Highlands show that they shouldn't exist side by side. Steve guides us through the landscape and reveals the surprising part that humans have to play in allowing both habitats to thrive, thereby keeping this corner of the British Is...

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Gálapagos

Aired: Jul 16, 2012

Steve's team films the Galapagos islands, a unique volcanic islands chain way...

Episode 2 Serengeti

Aired: Jul 23, 2012

The Serengeti in East Africa is the textbook example of a vast grassland, sit...

Episode 3 Amazon

Aired: Jul 30, 2012

Steve's team visits the world's largest and most diverse ecosystem, the Amazo...

Episode 4 Monterey Bay

4. Monterey Bay

Aired: Aug 6, 2012

Monterey Bay, off the south Californoan coast, has a complex ecosystem. Its w...

Episode 5 Okavango

Aired: Aug 13, 2012

The Okavango Delta is the world's richest river delta, covering a vast, unusu...

Episode 6 Svalbard

Aired: Aug 20, 2012

Survival on Svalbard, alias Spitzbergen, inside the Artic circle, requires de...

Episode 7 Canada's Coastal Forests

7. Canada's Coastal Forests

Aired: Jan 22, 2013

Steve Backshall pulls apart the pieces of Canada's remarkable coastal forest ...

Episode 8 Great Barrier Reef

8. Great Barrier Reef

Aired: Jan 29, 2013

Steve Backshall goes beneath the surface of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to...

Episode 9 Namib Desert

9. Namib Desert

Aired: Feb 5, 2013

Steve Backshall takes us on a journey to the oldest desert in the world, the ...

Episode 10 Yellowstone

10. Yellowstone

Aired: Feb 12, 2013

In the spectacular Yellowstone where wolves, bears, coyotes, bison and elk ro...

Episode 11 The Deep Sea

11. The Deep Sea

Aired: Feb 19, 2013

Steve Backshall takes us to a place few have ever visited - the deep sea. 99 ...

Episode 12 Australia's Red Centre

12. Australia's Red Centre

Aired: Feb 26, 2013

In Australia's red centre, Steve Backshall reveals two-metre-tall kangaroos, ...

Episode 13 Scottish Highlands

13. Scottish Highlands

Aired: Mar 5, 2013

Steve Backshall looks at the Scottish Highlands, home to some of the most ico...

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Steve BackshallNarrator

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Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Four

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary