Mvula's Journey

Iceland: Fire

Iceland: Ice

Experience unbelievable acts of courage and loyalty by creatures trying to survive in the remote wilderness of New Zealand's South Island. Face forest penguins' feast and famine cycles, and explore the tumultuous world of newborn sea lions.

Learn how winter's arrival triggers animal survival instincts in southwestern New Zealand. Track dolphins as they move to warmer waters to give their calves a fighting chance, and join longfin eels on an epic migration to their spawning grounds.

The south-eastern coast of New Zealand are some of the richest fishing grounds in the world - the place for young marine animals to transition from novices to independent adults. Young whales, dolphins and seals learn to hunt, learn the rules of society, or strike out on their own adventures.

In the early months of the year, the Earth's axial tilt brings the height of summer in some places and the depths of winter in others. See how life struggles to survive under these extreme conditions.

Travel around the globe to witness the atmospheric shifts that take place in March, from the wave of cherry blossoms that unfold across Japan to the final raft of green sea turtles that arrive on the Great Barrier Reef islands to lay eggs.

Watch summer unfold in the Northern Hemisphere, while regions close to the equator enter the wet season and Southern Africa goes dry, creating scarcity for some creatures and bounty for others.

Trail Atlantic puffins, Prairie rattlesnakes, Alaskan caribou and other animals as they travel across the international boundary between the U.S. and Canada. See how they can move from safety to target by crossing a line they had no say in creating.

Experience unbelievable acts of courage and loyalty by creatures trying to survive in the remote wilderness of New Zealand's South Island. Face forest penguins' feast and famine cycles, and explore the tumultuous world of newborn sea lions.

Learn how winter's arrival triggers animal survival instincts in southwestern New Zealand. Track dolphins as they move to warmer waters to give their calves a fighting chance, and join longfin eels on an epic migration to their spawning grounds.

The south-eastern coast of New Zealand are some of the richest fishing grounds in the world - the place for young marine animals to transition from novices to independent adults. Young whales, dolphins and seals learn to hunt, learn the rules of society, or strike out on their own adventures.

January-February - the Year Begins

March-April - a Time of Renewal

May-June - a Time of Volatility

Raising Babies

Watch the Onçafari team get to know Aroeira, their newly collared female, and take a peek at Aurora's cub, Apolo. Continue to track Badalo, who has moved deeper into the flooded forest, where he puts Lizzie's game-changing research in jeopardy.

Winter releases her iron grip. In Iceland Arctic foxes scurry across mountains to mate. In Shetland an otter raises her cubs. In Norway a vast reindeer herd descends to the calving grounds. A huge March storm rages across the Stormborn lands.

The Next Generation

Feel the icy heat of aggression in some of the coldest habitats on Earth. Watch how life-threatening environmental conditions and limited food resources bring out predators' competitive sides…and their teeth, talons, and other deadly ammunition.

Investigate the incredible challenges that animals face when trying to survive in some of the driest, fieriest places on the planet. Discover how they battle exhaustion, dehydration, baking sands, and other obstacles in these hotbeds of conflict.

Chilema is an Elephant with half a trunk; losing the tip to a poacher's snare. It was intended to catch antelope for bushmeat. But the snare's indiscriminate nature means other animals often fall foul of them, with devastating results. Chilema is now having to adapt to life without an elephants most important appendage. She must learn how to eat, drink and also take a mud bath to ensure her survival. With the added challenge of the harsh dry season, Chilema is fighting against the odds to survive.

Step into the Bay of Fundy's surging waters. Learn how this east coast ecosystem sustains an abundance of creatures, including hundreds of thousands of seabirds, the world's fastest predator, and a complex web of invertebrates.

Watch the Onçafari team get to know Aroeira, their newly collared female, and take a peek at Aurora's cub, Apolo. Continue to track Badalo, who has moved deeper into the flooded forest, where he puts Lizzie's game-changing research in jeopardy.

Winter releases her iron grip. In Iceland Arctic foxes scurry across mountains to mate. In Shetland an otter raises her cubs. In Norway a vast reindeer herd descends to the calving grounds. A huge March storm rages across the Stormborn lands.

The south-eastern coast of New Zealand are some of the richest fishing grounds in the world - the place for young marine animals to transition from novices to independent adults. Young whales, dolphins and seals learn to hunt, learn the rules of society, or strike out on their own adventures.

Feel the icy heat of aggression in some of the coldest habitats on Earth. Watch how life-threatening environmental conditions and limited food resources bring out predators' competitive sides…and their teeth, talons, and other deadly ammunition.

Investigate the incredible challenges that animals face when trying to survive in some of the driest, fieriest places on the planet. Discover how they battle exhaustion, dehydration, baking sands, and other obstacles in these hotbeds of conflict.

Chilema is an Elephant with half a trunk; losing the tip to a poacher's snare. It was intended to catch antelope for bushmeat. But the snare's indiscriminate nature means other animals often fall foul of them, with devastating results. Chilema is now having to adapt to life without an elephants most important appendage. She must learn how to eat, drink and also take a mud bath to ensure her survival. With the added challenge of the harsh dry season, Chilema is fighting against the odds to survive.

Step into the Bay of Fundy's surging waters. Learn how this east coast ecosystem sustains an abundance of creatures, including hundreds of thousands of seabirds, the world's fastest predator, and a complex web of invertebrates.