Posted on Sep 8, 2022
Obama tells stories of animals all around the world in Netflix's 'Our National Parks'
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The new Netflix docuseries “Our Great National Parks” takes viewers to national parks around the world, from the Chilean Patagonia to Kenya's Tsavo East National Park — to the soothing narration of one of the show’s executive producers, former President Barack Obama.
Executive producer James Honeyborne says his UK-based production company Wild Space Productions connected with the Obama’s Higher Ground Productions through Netflix.
“We knew President Obama had protected more public lands and waters and any other U.S. president in history,” Honeyborne says. “So it just seemed a very natural fit for us to work together in celebrating wilderness and wildlife by framing a series around national parks.”
Executive producer James Honeyborne says his UK-based production company Wild Space Productions connected with the Obama’s Higher Ground Productions through Netflix.
“We knew President Obama had protected more public lands and waters and any other U.S. president in history,” Honeyborne says. “So it just seemed a very natural fit for us to work together in celebrating wilderness and wildlife by framing a series around national parks.”
Obama tells stories of animals all around the world in Netflix's 'Our National Parks'
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..."On how national parks help scientists study animals
Honeyborne: “We're still discovering so much all the time. And actually, a really good example of that is when we were filming in Gunung Leuser National Park and we wanted to film something called the hammerhead worm, which is a very small but fiercely predatory worm that lives on the forest floor. And the species we found turned out to be an entirely new species unknown to science. And you suddenly realize that everywhere you look in a place like a rainforest, there are still new discoveries to be made.
“And then if you just take one animal like the sloth, for example, and look into his fur, as we do in the first episode, you see that there's this entire microcosm of life within that. It really is almost everywhere we look, we find new things. And I think that's the excitement about working with scientists, but also sharing the things we find with them. When you find a new species or new behavior, it really is very exciting.”
..."On how national parks help scientists study animals
Honeyborne: “We're still discovering so much all the time. And actually, a really good example of that is when we were filming in Gunung Leuser National Park and we wanted to film something called the hammerhead worm, which is a very small but fiercely predatory worm that lives on the forest floor. And the species we found turned out to be an entirely new species unknown to science. And you suddenly realize that everywhere you look in a place like a rainforest, there are still new discoveries to be made.
“And then if you just take one animal like the sloth, for example, and look into his fur, as we do in the first episode, you see that there's this entire microcosm of life within that. It really is almost everywhere we look, we find new things. And I think that's the excitement about working with scientists, but also sharing the things we find with them. When you find a new species or new behavior, it really is very exciting.”
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