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Then the pilot had to fly the drone some 1.5 km across the ocean to reach the vast glacier before they could even get a shot. Quirky skeleton shrimp live across the Arctic. This is a species not filmed for television previously. The waters surrounding Antarctica may be the richest of all, but they are also home to an exceptionally sophisticated predator, the killer whale. To reach their favoured prey, the Weddell seal, a family of killer whales have learnt to generate their own waves, washing the seals off their ice floes. It’s a technique that has been passed down over generations and is coordinated by the family matriarch, who can be over 100 years old. The longest continuous time any team member spent on location was three months. The longest journey to location took three weeks, and the longest quarantine period (due to COVID) was 42days.

We begin our journey close to the equator - the furthest point from the poles - in East Africa. Here on the high slopes of Mount Kenya, during the day the tropical sun keeps the cold at bay, but at night the frost descends. During this cycle of freeze and thaw, a pregnant high-casqued chameleon must choose the right time to give birth if her newborns are to escape the deadly night freeze.

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Above the boreal forest we cross into the Arctic Circle where conditions become so extreme that trees can no longer grow. This is the tundra. The musk ox - a relic of the last ice age - lives here. In spring their calves must face a far greater danger than the cold. Encounters with grizzly bears can be brutal but if just a few calves survive, the herd’s future is secure. Crested auklet mating displays have not broadcast since the original BBC Blue Planet series 20 years ago, and never in such detail. Polar bears are the icons of the Arctic. They rely on the sea ice to hunt seals. Longer ice-free summers mean more and more are being forced to come to land to find food like those which end up on Wrangel island in Russia, which has one of the densest populations of polar bears on Earth. Filming Locations The first Frozen Planet series aired in 2011, and focused on the natural history of the polar regions and the effects of climate change on these locations. Frozen Planet II episode guide Episode One: Frozen Worlds Six long years later and this sequel proves worth the wait - not quite matching the wonder of the first but providing a magical new adventure nonetheless.

Frozen Planet II has been licensed worldwide by various broadcasters including BBC America in North America, ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, Migu Video in China, NHK in Japan, Friday! in Russia, [6] Mediaset in Italy, [7] KBS in South Korea, [8] and the Nine Network in Australia. [9] High-definition remote camera traps captured the very rare Amur leopard and Siberian tigers in their wild habitat. Working in conjunction with local rangers, and with advice from a local wildlife photographer, the team were able to document the lives of these rare and secretive cats and for the first time reveal the two species living, and even walking, in each other’s footprints. From Patagonia to the Atacama desert, to the foothills of the Himalayas, mountain ice worlds are home to a surprisingly diverse range of wildlife. We meet puma, flamingos and giant pandas who have all overcome adversity to make the icy mountains their home. In Japan we meet macaques who brave the snowiest conditions on Earth, and in New Zealand we meet the kea, a mountain parrot who through its intelligence uses the dangers of the mountains to its advantage. Our hope is that we can show people that the diversity of frozen habitats is huge. There's a frozen habitat on every continent on Earth and we literally cover all the continents in this series. Hopefully people realise that they're much closer to these places than they might think and that there's a greater diversity of life and animals that relies on and lives in these worlds. As a side, hopefully, that will encourage people to keep protecting them. Because climate change doesn't just affect the poles, it also affects all these other frozen worlds around the world. They're all at risk.Upcoming BBC natural history landmark sequel Frozen Planet II debuted its first worldwide trailer, with the accompanying song performed by global superstar Camila Cabello and multiple Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer. These unique stromatolites are formed by multiple species of cyanobacteria including Phormidium autumnale and Leptolynbya antarctica. This lake has only been discovered in the last 13 years. Behind The Scenes Then we journey to the mountains in Central Asia, home to the Himalaya, the biggest frozen world away from the poles. The Karakoram range is in the far west of the Himalaya and has the highest concentration of snow and ice anywhere outside the poles. We've done an aerial shoot there where we go big on the huge mountain glaciers. Leaving Antarctica and travelling north, we discover frozen habitats that are created by altitude. The greatest of these is the Himalaya, the tallest mountain range on earth, which contains so much ice and snow it is known as the third pole. In the shadow of the Himalaya lies a vast frozen grassy plain that is home to the fluffiest cat in the world, Pallas’s cat. It may have extremely dense fur, but if it’s to survive the Mongolian winter, it needs to catch lots of gerbils and voles. Easier said than done when you only have short legs and paws that are sensitive to the cold. Light-weight drones enabled an aerial perspective on animal behaviour in situations where other aerial filming would have been disturbing to wildlife or logistically impossible;

Further north, on the featureless tundra, a solitary Arctic fox must strike a living alone head diving for lemmings hidden deep underground. In Siberia’s remote forests camera traps reveal rare Amur leopards on the prowl and, in its footsteps, an even larger big cat, the Siberian tiger. I hope people will feel that, while this is a wonderful celebration and an opportunity to be transported to these magical worlds, at the same time there is a fierce contemporary relevance to these stories. Planet Earth III, the third in a trilogy, is a brand-new series for 2022 – set to be the most ambitious natural history landmark ever undertaken by the BBC. Combining the awe and wonder of the original Planet Earth, the new science and discoveries of Blue Planet II and Planet Earth II, and the immersive character-led storytelling of Dynasties, the series will take the ‘Planet Earth’ experience to new heights. It will take audiences to stunning new landscapes, showcase jaw-dropping newly-discovered behaviors, and follow the intense struggles of some of our planet’s most amazing animals.The technology captured the speed of change of a landscape that would previously only be able to be measured with data points, adding to the scientific understanding of this newly emerging phenomenon. Rapid ice loss is also happening across the high mountains of the planet’s continents. Glaciologist Hamish Pritchard uses a sophisticated helicopter-strung radar system to try to quantify how much ice is left in the previously uncharted glaciers of the Himalayas. It’s important as, downstream, some 1.2 billion people rely on glacial meltwater as their primary source of fresh water. This is something we have to get right. Highly charged films about climate change have their place but I feel that if you make it too weighty and too heavy going, you could alienate your audience. There are around 500 individuals in the wild. They are three meters long from nose to tail tip. Their tail measure 1m alone and they have claws 10cm long. In the Russian Far East they share some of their range with the smaller Amur leopard.