1 Season
3 Episode
Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution - Season 1 Episode 1 Hawaii: A New Eden
In the first episode, Fortey is on Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly born island. According to some estimates, Hawaii has been successfully colonised by only one new species every 35,000 years due to its remote location - yet the Hawaiian Islands teem with a great diversity of life. In search of the evolutionary secrets of how one species becomes many, Fortey encounters beautiful honeycreeper birds whose evolution rivals that of Darwin's famous finches; carnivorous caterpillars who now can't eat leaves, and giant silversword plants that thrive in parched volcanic soil at 10,000 feet.
- Year: 2016
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Four
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- Cast: Richard Fortey
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