Movies and TvShows featuring "invasive-species" theme.
A group of scientists must stop a dangerous experiment with genetic regeneration involving anacondas. As they navigate through a forest, they encounter betrayal, murder, and a deadly predator.
A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
When a deadly spider species is unwittingly brought to a small town, chaos ensues as the residents must band together to exterminate the creatures before they spread and cause further harm.
Night of the Lepus is a horror/sci-fi/thriller movie about giant mutant rabbits that escape from a laboratory and start terrorizing a small town in Arizona. As the rabbits continue to multiply and wreak havoc, a zoologist, a rancher, and a sheriff must find a way to stop the deadly creatures before it's too late. Based on the novel of the same name, the movie features a mix of gore, suspense, and thrilling chase scenes.
Follow ocean legend Sylvia Earle, renowned underwater National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, writer Max Kennedy and their crew of teenage aquanauts on a year-long quest to deploy science and photography to inspire President Obama to establish new Blue Parks to protect essential habitats across an unseen American Wilderness.
Darwin's Nightmare is a documentary that explores the devastating effects of globalization on the ecosystem of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. The film focuses on the introduction of the Nile perch, a predatory fish, and its impact on the local fishing industry and ecosystem. It also highlights the social and economic consequences of globalization, including poverty, prostitution, and arms smuggling. Through interviews with locals, the film sheds light on the human exploitation and environmental issues faced by the region.
In 1940 twenty Canadian Beavers were brought to 'Tierra del Fuego' island in southern Patagonia for commercial fur production. However, beavers having no natural predators, quickly spread throughout the island, causing massive destruction of trees threatening the entire Patagonian forests rivers and species. Why wildlife conservationist are convinced that 150.000 beavers must be killed? Why some of the most recognized specialist are convinced that an eradication is not possible? Meanwhile truism is capitalizing on the situation: a man dressed as a beaver passes out flyers promoting a famous sky resort: 'Cerro Castor' - Beaver Hill. Hunters claim for subsidies, scientists are researching, rangers do what they can and restaurants tray to offer beaver meat to tourist.
Cats are cuddly felines and lovely pets, but also highly evolved predators that hunt huge amounts of small mammals, birds and reptiles; perfect killing machines that threaten delicate ecosystems around the world.
An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but things get increasingly bizarre the more they investigate.
After decades of hurricanes and oil spills, Louisiana faces a new threat - hordes of monstrous 20 pound swamp rats. Known as "nutria", these invasive South American rodents breed faster than bounty hunters can "control" them. With their orange teeth and voracious appetite they are eating up the coastal wetlands that protects Thomas and his town of Delacroix Island from hurricanes, but the people who have lived here for generations will not give up without a fight.
Remake of "Arachnophobia" (1990), in which a deadly South American spider hitches a ride inside a coffin to a small California town and starts to breed and kill.
In 1890, one man had the idea to collect every bird ever mentioned in Shakespeare and release them into Central Park. The only bird to survive in the New World was the European starling, which became one of the most common birds in North America. Its introduction is now widely considered a major environmental disaster.
Armed with venomous spines, invisible to its prey, a pack hunter who terrorizes other fishes - watch the stunning adventures of lionfish. Get to know the fish's prowess to dominate the oceans, to the extent that its invasion endangers local marine life!
Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries of the Great Lakes will take you on a journey through the greatest lake system in the world, and showcase the amazing geography, ecology, science, and history of the region.
North Americas Great Lakes are the largest system of free fresh water on earth, wielding huge influence on the continent. Over 34 million people live by their shores in some of greatest cities in the world. This groundbreaking television program pulls a virtual plug on the huge lakes, using computer-generated imagery to reveal hidden secrets of their human history and changing geological past.
The Unnatural History of the Kakapo is a documentary that delves into the story of the critically endangered Kakapo parrot. It showcases the bird's struggle for survival, the invasive species threatening its existence, and the dedicated efforts of conservationists to protect and breed this unique species. Set in the beautiful landscapes of New Zealand, the film highlights the challenges faced by the Kakapo and the importance of wildlife sanctuary and conservation programs.
Some scientists challenge the meteor impact theory as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. This program lays out the evidence and considers alternative explanations. The program also points out that many of the plant animal families that are in danger now survived the KT extinction suggesting the beginning of a new mass extinction. But even if we avoid a mass extinction changing climatic cycles will give humans trouble in 10,000 years when a new ice age cause glaciers to expand all over the Earth. Or, for North Americans, the Yellowstone super volcano is overdue to eruption.
An Eurocentric travelogue highlighting New Zealand's people, culture and natural beauty.
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