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Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina’s guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls Amelia, whose life and far-flung flights he describes in fascinating detail. Interwoven with recollections of whalers and famous explorers, Eye of the Albatross probes the unmistakable environmental impact of the encounters between man and marine life.

Dunedin’s Toroa Northern Royal Albatross colony may be younger than you think. Hear the origin story of this local wildlife celebrity from Hoani Langsbury, the Ecotourism Manager for the Otago Peninsula Trust, and find out what it took to encourage such an iconic species to breed on the tip of the Otago Peninsula, their only mainland breeding site in the world. Every year, the Royal Albatross Centre has a livestream of one of their nesting albatross pairs. This year you get to watch the family of RLK and GLG (named after their coloured plastic leg bands) raise their chick. Here's the link to...

For 20 years John Aitchison has been travelling the world to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters, taking him to faraway places on every continent. The Shark and the Albatross is the story of these journeys of discovery, of his encounters with animals and occasional enterprising individuals in remote and sometimes dangerous places.

South Solo is a story of indomitable courage, of passion to save an endangered species like the albatross, and the unique adventure of solo kayaking in the frigid waters off Antarctica.