The WORST episodes of Nature
Every episode of Nature ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Nature!
Transport viewers to faraway places ranging from the steamy plains of Africa to the splendors of cold Antarctica. The main focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world.
#1 - Icebird
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/12/1989
The Adelie penguin is observed at the Cape Bird nesting site on Antarctica's Ross Island.
#2 - The Coral Triangle
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/12/1988
An exploration of the coral reefs of the Malay Triangle made up of the Philippines, Malaysia and New Guinea.
#5 - Peacock's War
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/1988
Former Vietnam medic Doug Peacock lives as a firewatcher and conservationist in Montana's Glacier National Park.
#6 - Nature of Australia: A Portrait of the Island Continent: End of Isolation
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/1988
Modern Australians want to recapture the Aborigines ability to live harmoniously with indigenous plants and animals.
#8 - Beyond Timbuktu
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1989
Wildlife artist Bruce Pearson sketches the various bird species found in the arid lands of Western Africa's Mali, through which the River Niger flows.
#9 - Under the Emerald Sea
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/19/1989
Explores the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver, B.C.
#10 - Wild Waterfalls
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/1989
Explores the variety of local environments found around waterfalls in Africa, South and North America.
#11 - Meerkats United / The Bee-Team
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/5/1989
Profiles of the Kalahari Desert's gray meerkat or mongoose, and a Kenyan colony of bee-eater birds.
#12 - The Elephant Challenge
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/1988
A growing African population threatens elephant survival by farming its foraging land and hunting the beast for ivory.
#13 - Mozu the Snow Monkey
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/1989
Chronicling the life of "Mozu the Snow Monkey," a macaque with deformed limbs that's survived harsh winters in Japan's highlands to raise seven offspring. The complex social structure among the primates is documented.
#14 - The Everglades: Rain Machine
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/26/1989
Examines the role computers play in managing the Everglades and whether this vital freshwater marsh will survive the effects of diking, draining and development.
#15 - Islands in the Sky
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/16/1989
Unique animals and plants flourish atop mist-shrouded Venezuelan plateaus thousands of feet above the surrounding jungle.
#16 - Rulers of the Wind
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/1989
Scientists study birds of prey, creatures historically admired and hated, as indicators of environmental damage.
#17 - Kariba: The Lake that Made a Dent
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/1989
Wildlife flourishes around the manmade lake conservationists denounced 30 years ago at its creation.
#18 - The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1989
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
#19 - The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1989
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
#21 - Under the Ice
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1989
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
#24 - The Forgotten Garden
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/26/1987
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
#25 - Lords of Hokkaido
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/10/1987
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.