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Series 1: 4. Rainforests

BBC presenters look back on their adventures in our most precious of habitats – rainforests.\n\nChris Packham recalls his visit to Pipeline Road in Panama, where he saw a staggering array of birds, and the rainforest of Peru where he witnessed the relationship between an agouti and a Brazil nut tree. \n\nSteve Backshall’s experience of rainforests has been a little more adrenaline-fuelled, as he recounts his climb of a tepui, a sheer sandstone mountain, in the rainforest of Venezuela.\n\nGeorge McGavin remembers, with great affection, the time he was in Guyana on the hunt for the world’s biggest tarantula – the Goliath bird-eating spider. \n\nLiz Bonnin describes her time helping conservationists in the Amazon, climbing a tree to put a camera on a harpy eagle nest. While Gordon Buchanan recounts his four years living in the rainforest, learning his trade as a wildlife cameraman.

Source: BBC 2