Nature of Australia
Season 1 Episode 5 - The Land of Flood and Fire
The story of Australia’s Top End where the first Aboriginal people arrived, settled and perfected the use of fire as a means to manage the landscape. Portrays a year in the life revealing how animals and plants cope with the stresses of life in a place that swings savagely between the drenching floods of the annual wet and the parched heat of the dry season.
Directed by:Dione GilmourDavid Parer
Season 1
S01:E01 - A Separate Creation
The rise of the strange & unique marsupials, from their beginnings as primitive insect-hunters in the primeval forests of the now vanished super-continent of Gondwana, to their triumphant radiation as the dominant mammal group in Australia.
S01:E02 - Seas Under Capricorn
Tells how Australia’s marine shores came to be ringed by the most diverse assemblages of marine life on earth through a long period of isolation travelling north from Gondwana to span both tropical and temperate seas today.
S01:E03 - Making of the Bush
How the island continent’s wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a variety of forms – the eucalypt, where once the continent was covered in a dense rainforest.
S01:E04 - The Sunburnt Country
What was once a land of vast lakes and broad rivers has turned into a parched region of glittering stone and burning sand. This is the story of Australia’s arid interior and how, despite being called ‘the dead heart’, it teems with a great variety of plants and animals.
S01:E05 - The Land of Flood and Fire
The story of Australia’s Top End where the first Aboriginal people arrived, settled and perfected the use of fire as a means to manage the landscape. Portrays a year in the life revealing how animals and plants cope with the stresses of life in a place that swings savagely between the drenching floods of the annual wet and the parched heat of the dry season.
S01:E06 - The End of Isolation
Examines the impact of 200 years of European settlement on the Australian continent, showing the causes and effect of fire, drought, erosion, dust-storms, introduced animal and plant species and looks at new strategies for managing the land.
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