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Thousands of small farmers grow tea on the steep slopes of the coastal mountains in Turkey. Because the sacks of harvested tea leaves are large and heavy, the tea pickers use cobbled-together cable cars to carry the harvest up or down the hill to the road. 16 people have died in cable car accidents over the past decade, but hundreds more have lost limbs. One engineer is calling for standardised, safe infrastructure to be set up - but politicians don't seem interested.

16 people have died in cable car accidents over the past decade in Turkey's tea-growing region. 

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The many turquoise lakes and waterfalls in Plitvice National Park in Croatia are spectacular. This protected area is the refuge of 1,400 varieties of plants, some fifty species of mammals and 321 different butterflies. The park is located in the heart of one of the last primary forests in Europe, where the brown bear still roams. 

The Lakes of Plitvice in Croatia

The many turquoise lakes and waterfalls in Plitvice National Park in Croatia are spectacular

National Parks: A Macro View

The Arrabida Natural Park, south of Lisbon, is stunning. The Sado estuary welcomes thousands of migratory birds as winter approaches. But the real treasure of Arrábida is underwater: 1,500 animal and plant species live in its waters, protected since 1998.

Arrabida, Portugal

The Arrabida Natural Park, south of Lisbon, is stunning

Saudi Arabia is reputed to be one of the richest and most conservative nations on the planet. But how do its citizens live today?

Saudi Arabia: The West

Unknown Arabia

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. After his death in 1993, the hippos escaped and have been colonising local waterways ever since. Conservationists are now waging a war against this invasive species which is harmful to the local ecosystem and highly dangerous to humans.

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Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. But then they escaped.

Pablo Escobar's Hippos

In recent years Oman has been opening up to western tourists. What awaits them is a land of mountains, deserts, fjords, and pristine beaches.

Fairytale Oman

Jon, Rosa and Jack Yearout, Chief Emmit Taylor, Abigail and Davie Joe Whitman, and over 20 other members of the Niimíipuu tribe guide their horses into the waters of the Yellowstone River at the Nez Perce Ford, where their ancestors crossed 145 years ago. Their ancestors fiercely resisted the US Army, until finally, near the Canadian border, the chief laid down his arms with the words, "I will fight no more, forever." On this journey through time, they encounter impressive wild animals such as bison and grizzly bears, and they come to places that still bear the names and traces of their ancestors.

The Nimi’ipuu Gallop to Freedom

In 1877, around 750 members of a Native American tribe in the US refused to give up their freedom.

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Every year in early summer, hundreds of seal pups are born on the sandbanks and beaches of the German North Sea coast. Tourists like to get close to these cute new-borns but this can sometimes disturb their mothers that then abandon their young, condemning them to starve. Luckily, centres exist that look after orphaned seal pups before releasing them back into the wild.

Every year in early summer, hundreds of seal pups are born on the sandbanks and beaches of the German North Sea coast.

Saving Baby Seals

As spring approaches, citizens of Spain’s third city celebrate Las Fallas, a popular festival dating back to the middle ages where elaborate wooden sculptures go up in flames in one big street party.

Valencia's Fiery Fiesta

With the Kalahari, Namib or Etosha, Namibia is rich in protected areas and animal reserves and big cats benefit. There are an estimated 8,000 cheetahs left in the world, of which more than a third live in Namibia. Their population used to be much larger, but drought, poachers and competition with leopards are reducing the population.

With the Kalahari, Namib or Etosha, Namibia is rich in  animal reserves from which the big cats benefit. 

Cheetahs of Namibia

The United Arab Emirates includes the sci-fi like cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai with their breath taking towers and impressive beach resorts. It is also a land of expats with residents from over two hundred different nations.

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates includes the sci-fi like cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. It is also a land of expats with residents from over two hundred different nations.

In Peru, every year, the people who live in remote mountain villages gather to build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka, a traditional structure of woven grass, and the last of its kind. This ancestral know-how inherited from the Incas, and the enduring spirit of community, enables the villagers to pull off a stunning feat of engineering, time and again.

In Peru, every year, villagers build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka from woven grass, and the last of its kind.

The Inca Grass Bridge of Q'eswachaka

Medieval combat techniques are alive and swishing in Spain. Every year, a big tournament takes place at the foot of the castle of Belmonte in Castile-La Mancha. Men and women dressed in armour face each other in duels, and fight 'battles' using swords and axes.

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At the foot of the castle of Belmonte, men and women dress in armour face each other in duels.

Spain: The Medieval Art of Combat

Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses and unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

The Old Woman and the Lake

Saudi Arabia has many surprises in store for visitors. Around the gulf city of Dammam in the east, huge oil fields have made the country's fortune. Further inland, the flea market in the capital, Riyadh, attracts businessmen, day labourers and billionaires who all come to haggle.

Saudi Arabia: The East

Saudi Arabia has many surprises in store for visitors from the coastal city of Dammam to the bustling markets of the capital, Riyadh.

The three smalles states on the Persian Gulf could not be more different: Qatar is the richest country on Earth, conservative, and attached to its traditions whereas Bahrain is cosmopolitan and liberal. Kuwait is particularly pristine with some of the best food in Arabia.

Small Neighbours: Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait

The three smalles states o fthe Arabian peninsular, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, could not be more different.

Isabel Menzi's main job is a pilot for a Swiss airline. But she’s undergoing grueling training to achieve her dream of becoming a glacier pilot. These pilots are a vital lifeline to anyone who gets stranded in these traitorous mountains, but the flights themselves are death-defying.

GEO Reportage

Isabel dreams of becoming a glacier pilot, saving people in the Alps. But the training alone is death-defying

Switzerland: Glacier Pilots

In southern Greece, the peaks of the Peloponnese overlook a largely agricultural landscape scarred by monoculture and wildfires. With the return of the younger generation to family farms, there is hope of a rural revival: permaculture and agroforestry could give a new lease of life to the land and to local communities.

Peloponnese: A Passion for Agriculture

In southern Greece, permaculture and agroforestry could give a new lease of life to the land and to local communities.

360° Reportage

Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are shaped by the wind and are in perpetual movement. These extraordinary landscapes made of infinite grains of sand are ephemeral and inhospitable. Yet the environment they offer is astonishingly diverse.

Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are in perpetual movement, creating extraordinary ephemeral landscapes.

Dunes: Europe's Moving Landscapes

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death. The veterinarian, whose specialty was caring for cattle, had found his vocation: he opened a hedgehog refuge, now a local institution partly run by volunteers.

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death

360° Geo: A Hedgehog Shelter in Italy

In his small apartment in Masuria, Juliusz, 91, dreams of summer. All he wants is to escape to his cabin in the Carpathians, on the shores of Lake Solina, where he lives a simple, rustic life. Krzysztof, at 77, is a youngster by comparison. He came to the forest in 1981 to escape political repression and never left. He believes his life in the countryside is the key to happiness.

Meet the aging hippies who embrace a simple life in the Carpathians, on the shores of Lake Solina

The Vagabonds of the Carpathians

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In Europe, the last primary forests are found almost exclusively in the mountains in the east or south-east of the continent. These virgin forests have never been exploited or cut down, and have remained as they have always been. Few studies have been done on this forests, which are presumably havens of biodiversity. We go on a research trip to the Dinaric Alps in Albania.

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