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Backshall's Deadly Adventures

Episode 5: Jungle River

First broadcast: on CBBC ChannelLatest broadcast: on CBBC HD

Steve Backshall travels into the heartland of Papua New Guinea, a lost world covered in thick jungle and teeming with strange wildlife found nowhere else on earth. Working with an international team of scientists and film-makers, Steve's aim is to document the wildlife here and discover new species. On his first mission down river rapids and through tangled forests he discovers a bizarre venomous catfish, comes face to face with a death adder, and stumbles into a forest dripping with thousands of frogs' eggs. Show less

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