Lost Land of the Volcano

[Jennie]

Just seen part 2 of this 3-part series.......Anyone else been glued to the television screen when this is on?

[Hedera]

Yes, except the cave exploration parts! The insects and birds are fantastic though. The local people were very interesting also.

[solus]

Yes, me too - although the cave bits make me come over all claustrophobic!

Love the Birds of Paradise and those tiny ground doves and parrots and the kingfisher. It looks like the next one will be even better in the "lost world" inside the crater....

[Wild-Woman]

Good programme but I wish they would concentrate a bit more on the species being brought out.

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Good programme but I wish they would concentrate a bit more on the species being brought out.

It would be good if they made a follow up showing us exactly what they found - it does seem a bit illogical to make the programme and we all watch breathless and marvell then don't get to hear anymore about the stuff they had gone in hopes of ..........

...... those cave sequences tho - I kept wondering where their ropes were - and I was thinking what it would be like to swept off down that river long before they said it was dangerous and they could be swept to certain death ..... you could put a million pounds on the table and I would not go pot holing ....... and the need to abseil part way down a huge drop to swing into a cave with a vigorous river running out ....... no way no wonder I didn't sleep so good last night

Pauline

[Hedera]

We'll have to lobby for more - 3 programmes is a very small amount to get in everything they found. Given time perhaps we will see more, but they have to log and enter data etc. I suppose that all takes time for recording and processing when they got back.
When you think of those Victorian plumes from birds of Paradise on hats etc one wonders how many birds were made extinct then, and the tribesmen's decorations brought that back to me.

[Gill Catton]

I loved it, cave exploration bits too - how beautiful the insides of that structure and how exciting to go places no one has ever been before - I would have so loved it if they had found the giant snake the locals feared lived within!

but how sad that so much of what is being found and logged has already gone from areas only 20 miles away - all of the wonderfulness we're seeing could be entirely gone by this time next year - it makes you want to weep - I know that rainforests will heal themselves if allowed to but all those beautiful birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and mammals - terrified and homeless at best (that is assuming an insect is capable of feeling terrified of course!)and dead at worst. This is the cost of the tropical hardwood garden bench in the local garden centre.....

Awful - far too many human beings on this planet....

[ollyk]

Lets hope the scientists there make a small difference hey?
I felt for the tribe leaders too and while suspicious of human motivations at the best of times I can imagine what they must go through when deciding whether to save their own people or the habitat that supports their people.
Very tough and complicated situation I think!

[ViperaBerus]

I agree, three hours hardly does this expedition justice. There are many more things that they found and filmed that were not shown on screen, and a follow up after getting back to civvy life and the labs would be a fantastic programme.

[LynM]

I was disappointed because it was not about the volcano itself.....but that's just me, I'm a geographer rather than a naturalist!