For Release: February 7th, 2000
Journey Into Amazonia, airing Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 8:30/7:30 p.m. CT on KET, captures the spirit of the world's largest tropical wilderness--the Amazon Basin rainforest. Recognized as one of Earth's natural wonders, the rainforest is comprised of swollen rivers, flooded forests and dense canopy. This program offers a close look at the rainforest and the rarely seen animals that inhabit it as they contend with the volatile waters of the world's largest river system. Rod Steiger narrates.
The first episode, "Waterworlds," features the churning waters of the world's mightiest river, the force that creates, destroys and shapes Amazonia. Water is to Amazonia as sand is to the Sahara. It is the most crucial--and volatile--factor affecting the animals and plants that live in the biologically rich Amazon.
"The Land Reborn" reveals a world teeming with predators. Stealthy jaguars prowl, army ants swarm and tarantulas bring down rodent prey as two-and-half-million square miles of rainforest emerge from the floods. The program takes viewers from the margins of lagoon, river and flooded forest into a counterfeit paradise. This is evolution's workshop, containing plants and animals that natural selection has honed to occupy truly bizarre ecological niches.
"The Big Top" explores the luxuriant mantle of the world's greatest rainforest. Though scientists estimate that half the world's species live in the canopy of the tropical rainforest, little is known about this rarely glimpsed zone in which life and death dramas play out more than 100 feet above the forest floor.
Journey Into Amazonia is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Viewers can find out more about programming on KET by visiting the KET Web site at http://www.ket.org, a Kentucky.com affiliate.
Contact: Todd Piccirilli
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