Epic Earth – S1E11 – Makgadikgadi: Waiting for the rain

Once part of the Okavango Delta river system, the saltpans of Botswana are the largest of their kind in the world. Climatic shifts around ten thousand years ago caused the lake to dry out, and as the water evaporated, salts and minerals deposited by the rivers that flowed into it were left behind. What used to be wetland has become a parched inhospitable landscape. The animals and plants that remain are all highly adapted to drought but everything still revolves around water. We look at the life that exists in the Makgadikgadi pans, and how the eternal cycle of searching and waiting for water affects all its inhabitants.

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SHOW RUNTIME12 x 30'
SHOW RUNTIME12 x 30'

Epic Earth – S1E11 – Makgadikgadi: Waiting for the rain

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The most immersive wildlife media experience you’ll ever have. Over a period of 36 months Earth Touch deployed expert camera crews, each specialists in their particular field, to ecologically sensitive wildlife locations all over the world.

Their brief was simple: observe and report on the environment - as it happens – allowing nature to write the script. Using pioneering satellite technology beautiful HD wildlife imagery was beamed to our production facility literally hours after being filmed. The result is Epic Earth, a series that reflects on the wide range of stories that were witnessed over this three year period.

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