Netflix — Our Planet, Jungles
difficult to watch — knowing the Amazon jungles are currently burning
“In the past 50 years wildlife populations have, on average, declined by 60%” — Our Planet, S1-E1
Narrated by the voice we all love, David Attenborough, the Netflix original docu-series Our Planet has enough stunning scenery to wow the senses and inspire you to double-down on your save-the-planet efforts.
Episode three of the series is entitled “Jungles.”
Sit back and enjoy a wondrous immersion into bountiful life — the immersion into biodiversity of this episode is breathtaking. This episode covered various jungle habitats in the world and featured some of the unique plants and animals found there.
Jungles play a vital role in the health of our planet and we are losing them at an alarming rate. The current man-set fires burning in the Amazon have been photographed from space.
“Jungles capture and store more carbon than any other habitat on Earth” — “we lose them at our peril.”—Our Planet, S1-E3
We begin this episode in the Congo with some of the most stunning footage of gorillas and elephants that I have ever seen. (Prepare for cuteness overload on some of it!) The Congo is second only to the…
