For a long time, it had been believed to be a mythical creature, a kind of desert yeti. For decades hardly anyone had ever met a Gobi bear face to face. The extremely shy desert bears are among the world’s rarest animals. Not more than about 30 specimens supposedly have survived in the secluded area of the Gobi desert. Mongolian scientists have now for the first time succeeded in verifying the existence of the legendary small brown bear: at a watering-place near the Chinese border, the bear walked into the researchers' camera trap. At this moment a comprehensive research and preservation programme is getting started, which we will exclusively accompany with our camera.
A thrilling desert expedition in a breathtaking landscape – tracing one of the most fascinating animals of the earth.
High up in Europe’s north lies the kingdom of the brown bears: hidden in the forests of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, many thousands of bears live to this day. In the middle of winter, when outside, veritable tons of snow blanket their caves, the females give birth to their cubs. For months, the b...
High up in Europe’s north lies the kingdom of the brown bears: hidden in the forests of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, many thousands of bears live to this day. In the middle of winter, when outside, veritable tons of snow blanket their caves, the females give birth to their cubs. For months, the b...
A forest that lives off fish, a white bear that is not a polar bear, and wolves that feed off the ocean… Canada’s Great Bear Rain Forest is a strange and pristine world, a land that time almost forgot.
The awe-inspiring northern coastline of British Columbia with its great fjords that rival thos...