National Geographic - Amur- Asia's Amazon Series 1 (2015) Part 1 Into The Shadowlands

Amur- Asia’s Amazon

This is a visual and dramatic journey of discovery along the mighty Amur River, an expedition into a lost and exotic world. The journey is divided into three episodes, each reflecting the changing face of the landscape and its wildlife. Every episode captures the character of a particular territory, with self-contained stories of the natural world and its exotic diversity. The series also gives context by its insights into the traditional communities of humans who have learned to survive in such a remote and harsh environment.

Part 1 Into The Shadowlands

The Amur’s coastal delta is one of the richest ecosystems on earth. Nourished by the mighty river’s enormous sediment load, the Sea of Okhotsk is a marine hotspot of biodiversity with arctic and subtropical species living side by side. Likewise, the land of Russia’s Far East is a unique meeting place of northern and southern plants and animals, boasting the planet’s most diverse woodlands. These wildwoods are still inhabited by Amur tigers, Asian black bears, brown bears, Siberian and Sika deer, sables and otters and countless species of wetland birds. And they are home to traditional forest and river cultures like the Udeghe and Nanai. The Pacific rim is both the end and the beginning of the Amur River system It’s the massive monsoon clouds the Pacific sends inland which keep the thousand tributaries of the Amur flowing.

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