Man and the Earth

During the spring of 1973, a TVE crew, in close collaboration with several Venezuelan government agencies, produced a series of 18 ecological document...

The show's crew undertakes a rescue operation for the animals most affected by the heat and drought.

During a rescue operation, the crew captures gigantic anacondas, caimans, and tortoises to prevent them from dying of dehydration.

The animals most affected by the tremendous drought plaguing the plains of Venezuela are the chigüires, or capybaras, rodents weighing up to 50 kilogr...

The largest forest mass on our planet spans the immense Orinoco–Amazon basin. Under a perpetually humid climate, the giants of the jungle grow to heig...

In the deciduous jungles lining the banks of the Upper Orinoco and its tributaries lives a Paleo-Indian tribe that has only very recently come into co...

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente and his crew navigate the Orinoco, where they encounter the Yanomami. A people of the Venezuelan jungle who, despite havi...

The largest and most powerful of South American carnivores is the jaguar. Once abundant, the Man and the Earth crew had to travel thousands of kilomet...

One of the most distinctive traits of the Yanomami is their warlike behavior.

After spending a season with the Yanomami, the Man and the Earth crew is guided by some of these indigenous people deeper into the jungle, where the n...

The giant otter, or water dog as it is known in South America, is one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and little-known animals in the world.

South of Puerto Ayacucho, the vertical and inviolate mass of Cerro Autana rises, the sacred mountain of the Piaroa people.

The Man and the Earth crew shows us the Llanos of Venezuela, one of the largest and least known regions on the planet.

South America is a paradise for birds, known by scientists as the "continent of birds." The Republic of Venezuela alone is home to more bird species t...

The Man and the Earth crew, joined on this occasion by underwater and surface filmmakers, captures on camera an entire world of coral that forms the s...

On a flat islet covered with glasswort, in the middle of the Venezuelan Coral Sea, brown boobies nest. The reproductive biology of this immense colony...

At the small river port of La Esmeralda, the Man and the Earth crew finds a six-month-old giant otter that had been literally torn from the belly of i...

Dr. Rodríguez de la Fuente concludes the expedition across Venezuela and returns to Spain with the giant otter rescued from death in Puerto Ayacucho (...