The Washington D.C.-headquartered wildlife and nature model Love Nature has partnered with Australia’s nationwide broadcaster ABC, Artemis Media and Matter of Factual for Ningaloo with Tim Winton.
The three-part series will see best-selling creator and environmental advocate Tim Winton discover the interconnecting ecosystems of the Ningaloo Reef, a World Heritage website positioned on Australia’s northwest coastal area.
“This is a deeply personal journey for me,” mentioned Winton (pictured), whose extensively cherished novels and quick tales have been tailored for quite a few movies and tv series, and who has labored for greater than twenty years to lift consciousness concerning the threats going through the reef.
“Ningaloo has had an enormous impact on my life and work, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pay homage through new science, ancient knowledge and a shared ethic of stewardship. I’m thrilled that Love Nature has supported this venture.”
Stretching for 300 km alongside the coast of Western Australia, Ningaloo is the world’s largest fringing coral reef and residential to a whole bunch of species of fish, coral, and mollusks, in addition to whale sharks, humpback whales, dolphins, manta rays, and turtles.
The reef’s neighbor, the unprotected Exmouth Gulf, additionally homes the world’s final secure inhabitants of dugongs, the massive marine mammals whose different pure habitats have been degraded to the purpose that the species has grow to be weak to extinction.
Commented Carlyn Staudt, international normal supervisor of Love Nature: “Ningaloo with Tim Winton is an important Australian story that will unlock access to one of the last unspoiled landscapes remaining on the planet, while also creating an emotional audience connection to the Ningaloo Coast’s wildlife and indigenous culture.”
The series may also discover the Cape Range area that borders the reef, an elevated plateau that’s undergirded by deep canyons and limestones caves, which home each historic troglobite species that may’t be discovered anyplace else on the continent, in addition to proof of human habitation that dates again tens of 1000’s of years.
Ningaloo with Tim Winton will air on Love Nature’s worldwide linear and streaming platforms and on Sky Nature within the UK, Germany and Italy, with Flame Distribution dealing with worldwide distribution outdoors of the co-producer territories. Winton shares writing duties with director and government producer Peter Rees, whereas Celia Tait serves as EP for Artemis Media and James Manfull for Love Nature.