Island Of The Monsoon

The shadowy forests of Yala National Park are the perfect hideout for secretive leopards. It’s time for one young female, Asha, to strike out alone. Join her as she fights for her own territory, finds a mate, and becomes a mother.

A young female leopard must learn to hunt, mate, and find a territory to call her own during a brutal dry season in southeastern Sri Lanka.

Every year, the biggest elephant congregation in Asia occurs in Minneriya National Park. Here in this sacred place, baby Loka is born. Watch as he learns to suckle, swim and handle his trunk among the mêlée of giants that make up his family.

A particularly harsh dry season forces a mugger crocodile to leave his uninhabitable forest lake home in search of new hunting grounds.

Monsoon season arrives in Sri Lanka, but the uneven distribution of rainfall from region to region creates contrasting habitats and a wild diversity of life.

The waters produced by Sri Lanka’s monsoon season journey from mountains to rainforests to coastal mangroves, creating a wild array of habitats.

Southern Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park is home to over 200 bird species, some trying to raise their young, others on the hunt for easy prey.