Growing up in Ontario, Canada, I avidly remember watching TV shows such as Zoboomafoo and Wild Kratts when I was in elementary school. These shows were probably the ones that got me really interested in ecology, zoology in particular. My friend in the U.S. says that along with Wild Kratts, shows li…

Magazines: My Big Backyard then Ranger Rick Books: A lot of Jaque Coustou (his films too) because i loved marine biology. Also Karen Pryors books on marine biology and behaviour. Imagine my surprise 20 years later getting into dog training and seeing clicker training that grew from her work talk ab…

Honestly not sure any did. Closest I could come to picking one is Maybe Yvon of the Yukon. I think that’s what introduced me to the northern lights, northern forests, more ancient cultures than my own, and the perpetual night. Edit: was just reminded of Steve Irwin, he was probably bigger

I think others have already mentioned all the series I watched as a kid: The Crocodile Hunter, The Jeff Corwin Experience, Zoboomafoo when I was a very young kid. I still love watching nature programs. I’ve watched pretty much all the animal documentaries available on Discovery+. Now I watch all the…

I remember waking up at 6:00 in the morning before the sun was even up so I could catch both showtimes of Champions of the Wild before heading off to middle school and as soon as I got home I’d turn on the TV so I didn’t miss Big Cat Diary. I feel like those two shows along with other things like PB…

I watched all of the free NOVA nature documentaries, before it they changed the website and ruined it :/ Wild Kratts was a big one, for sure.

Certainly David Attenborough (Planet Earth and Blue Planet) and the Walking With series (though the latter was primarily for my interest in prehistoric life) for me; funnily enough both combined this year with Prehistoric Planet. Animal-related children’s edutainment I watched as a kid included Stan…

Same here, ie Walt Disney World and Wild Kingdom… Poor Jim on Wild Kingdom…always being sent out to handle the local wildlife while old Perkins sat back… “and while Jim wrestles the crocodile…”

Yep David was probably my main one as well.

[image] papili01: the great show NATURE on PBS for the past 40 years It may have been great 40 years ago… Surprised nobody mentioned National Geographic Specials. Those were big for me – they sure had a flair for the spectacular. Also Nature, as mentioned; Nova, too, although that was often …

I grew up in Australia in the 80s and 90s. I don’t remember there being much in the way of nature programmes specifically for kids, but I do remember that I really enjoyed watching the likes of the Bush Tucker Man , Malcolm Douglas and other adventurer-types who explored the Australian outback. Later…

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