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Wallace's standardwing - The Beagle

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Channel: vpro world stories · 2017 · Travel & Events

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We’re off again, sailing for months along the coasts of South America. Now we’re on our way to The Galapagos. A Mecca for every naturalist. An island of dreams made of reason. Darwin’s reason – where the foundations for his greatest discovery were laid. A teenage dream come true for Redmond O’Hanlon.
 
Next, O’Hanlon leaves the clipper briefly to fly to Indonesia - in search of the story of Darwin’s greatest rival - the man who technically takes priority for the theory of evolution by natural selection - Alfred Russell Wallace. The journey is made in order to find the most desirable of all the birds of paradise - because it is the only one that Wallace discovered: the standardwing also known as Wallace’s standardwing.
 
On the island of Tahiti the clipper is rejoined, in time for the great crossing of the Pacific Ocean. Astonishingly, our planet is composed of 70% water. This water is more important to us than anyone could imagine. We humans have much more in common with other life forms than Wallace or Darwin could have thought… if we take care of the oceans, we take care of ourselves…

Original title: Beagle: On the future of species
 
This voyage was the most important journey ever made. Hundreds of thousands of birds, dolphins all coming racing to the ship. Plancton coming in from the plankton recorder, enormous tracks of the megatherium. The Galapagos was a paradise. It’s just the strangest most wonderful feeling to walk amongst these animals and birds and not feel an intruder. They like you, they don’t mind. It’s all just too special for words. An unforgettable experience for the passengers of the ship – and for viewers of the programme.
 

Presented by: Redmond O'Hanlon and Sarah Darwin
Directed by: Hans Fels 
Based on an idea by Hans Fels
This program has been made possible by Randstad
 
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