Paradise Reclaimed
Narrated by Tom Conti
- A Professor who wrestles with boa constrictors, sets fire to the forest and collects horse dung.
- A jungle that turns to desert every year and is full of chewing gum and amber. Turning traditional conservation ideas upside-down, Dan Janzen , an American biologist is reconstructing a tropical, dry-forest park in Costa Rica. The bold plan is to turn a patchwork of ranches and farms with a few clumps of trees into the kind of jungle that once covered most of Central America, India and Australia.
Undaunted by the tangle of tropical natural history that baffles most naturalists, Janzen has chased the secrets of the new
Guanacaste National Park until he now has enough information to grow back tropical dry forest.
Cameramen RODGER JACKMAN MARTIN SAUNDERS
Film editor CHRIS WADE Commentary written by JEREMY CHERFAS
Producer MARION ZUNZ
Series editor ANDREW NEAL BBC Bristol