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Seasonal Forests

The Taiga forest, on the edge of the Arctic, is a silent world of stunted conifers. The trees may be small but filming from the air reveals its true scale. A third of all trees on Earth grow here and during the short summer they produce enough oxygen to change the atmosphere. In California General Sherman, a giant sequoia, is the largest living thing on the planet, ten times the size of a blue whale. The oldest organisms alive are bristlecone pines. At more than 4,000 years old they pre-date the pyramids. But the baobab forests of Madagascar are perhaps the strangest of all.

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  • Originally Aired December 3, 2006
  • Runtime 59 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
  • Production Code 110
  • Network BBC One
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Created April 27, 2021 by
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Name Type Role
Alastair Fothergill Director