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NATURE brings the beauty and wonder of the natural world into your home, becoming in the process the benchmark for natural history programs.

The Bear River was once a lush area with wetlands, hot springs, and abundant wildlife.
Follow a woman’s transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds.
Injured hummingbirds Mikhail and Alexa happily share a cage.
Major support for NATURE is provided by The Arnhold Family in memory of Henry and Clarisse Arnhold, The Fairweather Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Charles Rosenblum, Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao, Sarah and Sandra Lyu in memory of Seung and Dorothy Lyu, Colin S. Edwards, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation, Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, Gregg Peters Monsees Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, Koo and Patricia Yuen, Sandra Atlas Bass, Bradley L. Goldberg Family Foundation, Dr. George Stanley and Sandra Caruso, The Hite Foundation, Kitty Hawks and Larry Lederman, Perpetual Kindness Foundation and Sun Hill Renewal Fund, Ruth Mary Einhorn, Arlene and Milton D. Berkman, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by Viewers Like You.
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In the otherworldly Spiny Forest of Madagascar, a historic release is about to take place.
Terry Masear helps rescue baby hummingbird twins whose mother died.
Meet the world’s first sloth detective dog, Keysha.
Climb into the jungle canopy with Tamara Ávila Atagua as she builds life-saving bridges for sloths.
Brand new to science: a sloth drinking water—captured cinematically for the first time.
A sloth scientist, her tree-climbing BFF, and their dog work to save Costa Rica’s sloth populations.
A buffalo hunt is a family affair.
Extreme drought drives animals to behave abnormally, as crocodiles and hippos crowd a waterhole.
Wildlife filmmaker Owen Prümm ventures into Katavi, a remote region in southwestern Tanzania.
In Madagascar, the next generation is stepping up to safeguard the Greater Bamboo Lemur.