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Our Wild Adventures

Series 1

Rainforests

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

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BBC presenters look back on their adventures in our most precious of habitats – rainforests.

Chris Packham recalls his visit to Pipeline Road in Panama, where he saw a staggering array of birds, and the rainforest of Peru where he witnessed the relationship between an agouti and a Brazil nut tree.

Steve Backshall’s experience of rainforests has been a little more adrenaline-fuelled, as he recounts his climb of a tepui, a sheer sandstone mountain, in the rainforest of Venezuela.

George McGavin remembers, with great affection, the time he was in Guyana on the hunt for the world’s biggest tarantula – the Goliath bird-eating spider.

Liz Bonnin describes her time helping conservationists in the Amazon, climbing a tree to put a camera on a harpy eagle nest. While Gordon Buchanan recounts his four years living in the rainforest, learning his trade as a wildlife cameraman. Show less

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