This summer, the BBC’s Natural History Unit arrived in Barrow, Alaska, and spent a few days with the Owl Research Institute. While touring the tundra, they learned about the Snowy Owl Project and filmed the life history of Barrow’s Snowy Owls.
The film project is part of Frozen Planet, sequel to the highly acclaimed Planet Earth series. This newest nature documentary series will feature David Attenborough as narrator and be shot entirely in HD.
The six-part series will look at life in the Arctic and Antarctic, regions currently experiencing a more rapid rate of climatic change than any other.
Polar species such as Snowy Owls, and particularly their prey species the Brown Lemming, could be drastically affected by climate change. The creators of Frozen Planet are filming this story, as well as others that tell about an ecoregion at risk.
The Frozen Planet is due to be broadcast on the U.K.’s BBC One in fall 2011, with the US broadcast on Discovery Channel following in spring 2012.
