Tasmania – shaped by temperate rainforests, rugged coastlines and the icy storms of the “Roaring Forties.” Amid this extraordinary landscape lives one of the planet’s strangest animals: the platypus. With its duck-like bill, egg-laying females and venomous-spurred males, it belongs to the last surviving group of egg-laying mammals which conservationists such as Joy Kachina are helping to protect.
Tasmania’s wild beauty is also home to wombats, which must endure heavy rain and freezing temperatures in the island’s highlands while raising their young. At Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Greg Irons and his network of volunteers rescue thousands of animals every year.
“Tasmania’s Wild Treasures” is a visually stunning two-part documentary about extraordinary wildlife, conservation and one of the world’s most remarkable island ecosystems.
Episode 1: In a Wombat’s World
