{"id":33754,"date":"2023-11-15T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/71dfca5e-e4e8-456d-91fa-ba2b546a9e51"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:36:53","slug":"planet-earth-iii-episode-5-what-can-we-expect-from-the-forest-episode","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/planet-earth-iii-episode-5-what-can-we-expect-from-the-forest-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Earth III episode 5: what can we expect from the forest episode?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\">What can we expect from the forest episode of the epic new wildlife series Planet Earth III &#8211; and what stories will pull pull at our heart strings? We take a look <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 12:17 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p\/><p><strong>In episode 4 of Sir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/david-attenborough-facts\">David Attenborough<\/a>&#8216;s latest series\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/planet-earth-3\">Planet Earth III<\/a><\/em> David Attenborough journeys into the hidden world of forests, where lives are entwined in the most unexpected of ways. <\/strong><\/p><p>From the temperate rainforests of Canada, where rarely seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/facts-about-spirit-bear\">spirit bears <\/a>fish for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fish\/how-do-salmon-make-it-upstream\">salmon<\/a>, to the teak forests of India, where whistling wild dogs work together to bring down prey three times their size, the forests of planet Earth are full of unseen connections. <\/p><p>To stand out in the misty mountainous forests of China male tragopan have developed a comical dance routine, in the dense tropical rainforest ninja treehoppers (one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/weird-animals\">world&#8217;s weirdest animals<\/a>) form surprising alliances to fight off assassin bugs , and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/holidays-days-out\/asia\/malaysian-borneo-wildlife\">Borneo<\/a> oriental pied hornbills go to incredible lengths to protect their young.<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/reviews\/best-david-attenborough-books\">Best David Attenborough books<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/sir-david-attenborough-best-moments\">Sir David Attenborough: 5 magic moments on film<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/sir-david-attenborough-key-moments-in-his-career-so-far\">Sir David Attenborough \u2013 key moments in his career so far<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/best-david-attenborough-documentaries\">Best David Attenborough documentaries\u00a0to watch and stream: unmissable wildlife television at your fingertips<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>We are only now beginning to understand how deeply interconnected life in the forest is, but we do know that these connections are threatened by deforestation. Each individual tree is an intricate ecosystem in its own right, yet humans cut down 15 billion of them every year.<\/p><p>In the Amazon, they are being replaced by plantations of eucalyptus, a single species of tree which turns rich and complex worlds into little more than green deserts. In the small patches of remaining forest animals like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/facts-about-chimpanzees\">chimpanzees<\/a>, our closest relatives, are forced to carve out an existence in the human world.<\/p><p><strong>Filmin<\/strong>g <strong>locations and species<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><strong>Spirit\/Kermode bear: <\/strong>Hartley Bay, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada<\/li><li><strong>Tragopan: <\/strong>Central China<\/li><li><strong>Treehoppers: <\/strong>Yasuni National Park, Ecuador<\/li><li><strong>Eucalyptus: <\/strong>Brazil<\/li><li><strong>Oriental pied hornbill: <\/strong>Gomantong and Sukau, Borneo<\/li><li><strong>Chimpanzee: <\/strong>Bulindi, Uganda<\/li><li><strong>Dhole: <\/strong>Kabini National Park, India<\/li><li><strong>Kapok tree: <\/strong>Tambopata region, Peru<\/li><\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can we expect from the forest episode of the epic new wildlife series Planet Earth III &#8211; and what stories will pull pull at our heart strings? 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