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Great Barrier Reef

Season 1
It’s one of the natural wonders of the world and the largest living structure on our planet. Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the creatures that live there are explored in this fascinating nature documentary. How the reef was created, how it works, the intricate relationships between its inhabitants, its conservation and how climate change and other factors might shape its future are revealed.
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  1. S1 E1 - Nature's Miracle
    December 31, 2011
    50min
    TV-G
    From deadly fish-hunting snails to sharks that walk on land, fighting corals and parrot fish that spin sleeping bags every night, discover the magic of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. This fascinating nature documentary looks at complex structure of the coral reef itself and the wildlife that lives on it, revealing how the amazing reef creatures compete and co-operate.
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  2. S1 E2 - Reef to Rainforest
    January 7, 2012
    51min
    TV-G
    Only 7% of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is coral reef. The rest is a variety of interconnected habitats including the world's oldest jungle, many islands, and mysterious deep-water gardens. As this nature documentary reveals, many of the creatures that live here are improbably weird, from giant hammerhead sharks to the bizarre 'pearl fish' that lives its life in the rear end of a sea cucumber.
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  3. S1 E3 - Reef and Beyond
    January 14, 2012
    50min
    TV-G
    Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is vitally linked to the rest of the planet in many ways. Creatures travel for thousands of miles to visit, including tiger sharks, great whales, seabirds and the largest green turtle gathering on the planet. And as this nature documentary shows, weather patterns and climate change are likely to shape the future of the Great Barrier Reef and all its wildlife.
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Producers
Neil NightingaleBrett Shorthouse
Studio
BBC
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