World Safari (1986)

A live celebration of the wilderness and wildlife of planet earth. David Attenborough and Julian Pettifer invite you to join them on a satellite safari around the world. From a studio at Television Centre, London, they are linked with 16 wilderness locations where celebrities and experts wait to show you wildlife spectacles as they happen. Actress and conservationist Stefanie Powers on the banks of the Chilkat River in Alaska ... German naturalist Heinz Sielmann with marine iguanas and giant tortoises on Darwin's famous Galapagos Islands ... HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at the Wolong Panda Reserve in the mountains of China ... Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi talks about his country's tigers ... Sir Peter Scott and Tony Soper from the floodlit swan-lake at Slimbridge ... Norwegian Kon-Tiki hero Thor Heyerdahl , in reindeer country north of the Arctic Circle. This unique television event - planned to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund - also features North American bison, snow geese, wildebeest on migration in East Africa, antelope rutting on the Steppes of Russia, walrus in the Sea of Okhotsk, red-crowned cranes in Japan, kangaroos in Australia and finally albatrosses and penguins in New Zealand. In 90 minutes World Safari will have spanned our planet from west to east, from the Arctic to the tropics, from day through night, and from winter to summer.