Nature: Season 8
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Nature Season 7.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Oct 8, 1989 · 53 min
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Oct 15, 1989 · 53 min
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Oct 22, 1989 · 53 min
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
Under the Ice
Oct 29, 1989 · 53 min
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
Land of Dragons
Nov 12, 1989 · 53 min
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
The Great Wood of Caledon
Nov 19, 1989 · 53 min
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
Gorillas
Dec 10, 1989 · 53 min
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
Forest of Fear
Dec 17, 1989 · 53 min
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
Gran Paradiso
Jan 7, 1990 · 53 min
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
Cranes of the Grey Wind
Jan 21, 1990 · 53 min
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
King Solomon's Mountains
Feb 4, 1990 · 53 min
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
Hunters of the Sky
Feb 11, 1990 · 53 min
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
A Wolf in the Fold
Feb 18, 1990 · 53 min
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
The Emerald Isle
Mar 11, 1990 · 53 min
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
Giant Otters
Mar 18, 1990 · 53 min
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Mar 25, 1990 · 53 min
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Apr 1, 1990 · 53 min
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
Yellowstone on Fire
Apr 8, 1990 · 53 min
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
Serpents
Apr 15, 1990 · 53 min
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.