BBC Wildlife - UK (2019-12)

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BBC Wildlife December 2019 Seven Worlds, One Planet

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SEVEN WORLDS | ONE PLANET INTRO

We are Born Free. Working

alongside local communities,

we manage or fund

conservation and animal

welfare projects in more than

20 countries worldwide. We

want a future where animals

and people-co-exist.

SEVEN WORLDS,

ONE PLANET:

ON LOCATION

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Editor Paul McGuinness

Deputy Editor Jo Price

Editorial consultant Ben Hoare

Section Editor Sarah McPherson

Production Editor Angharad Moran

Art Editor Richard Eccleston

Deputy Art Editor Lisa Duerden

Acting Deputy Art Editor Benedict Blyth

Picture Editor To m G i l k s

Editorial Assistant Megan Shersby

Contributors Jane Williamson,

Laura Barwick

Managing Director Marie Davies

Publisher Andrew Davies

Group Ad Manager To m D r e w

Ad Manager Neil Lloyd

Brand Sales Executive

Heather Candlish

In association with

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even Worlds, One Planet is about the seven

continents and their wildlife, and how these great

continental landmasses came to be where they

are on the surface of the Earth. The story starts

about 200 million years ago, when the supercontinent

Pangaea split apart, a geological process that has not

stopped. Even today, the continents are moving across

the face of the Earth, each carrying its own assemblage

of plants and animals. Now, however, there are signs that

the continents are beginning to reassemble. Australia,

for example, is heading north, where it will collide with

South-east Asia, pushing up a new mountain chain

and increasing the size of Eurasia. Eventually, all the

continents will coalesce, forming a new supercontinent,

when the geological cycle will start all over again.

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

4 Antarctica

8 Asia

12 South America

16 Australia

20 Europe

24 North America

28 Africa

Following this female

puma and her six-

month-old cubs in

Chilean Patagonia

was a big challenge

for the BBC film crew.