ANIMALS IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION
1- FROM THE ALPS TO THE APPENINES
2- A BEACH 9000 KILOMETERS LONG
Despite grat industrial development and a high population density, Italy is one of the few European countries which still has inestimable natural treasures that are protected by inaccessible mountains, long stretches of rocky or sandy coastline, and still unspoilt marshes.
With the help of imagery which is of great biological and spectacular interest, and among the first to be filmed of Italian fauna in its natural environment by a team of specialized operators, the rarest and most threatened animals in the Italian territory are described with up-to-date information concerning the consistency of populations, geographical distribution, and threatening factors.
The first part (FROM THE ALPS TO THE APPENINES) looks at animals living in the mountain areas, in particular in the national parks: the steinbocks of the Gran Paradiso, the lynx and otter, the goshawk of the conifer forests, the pellegrine hawk which is shown hunting in spectacular sequences.
A part of the documentary dwells on the typical fauna of the Appenines: the Abruzzo chamois, the Marsican wolf and bear, which are exclusive to Italy, and the royal eagle.
The second part (A BEACH 9000 KILOMETERS LONG) is devoted to animals that live in the nine thousand kilometers of sandy and rocky coasts, in the marshes and agricultural steppes of the dryest and most desolate areas of Sardinia and Southern Italy.
Set in crystal clear waters and coasts covered in lush vegetation, the colonies of the Corsican seagull and Eleonora's falcon are shown, as well as an event which is almost unrepeatable: the nesting of sea turtles on the beaches.
In the Sardinian interior film has been shot of the griffon vulture and the rare Sardinian deer, whilst in the ponds and lagoons sequences have been made showing sea swallows stilt birds, flamingos and cormorants.
