1-8 | Human Planet Complete-episodes

Theme: Utilizing the biodiversity of the rainforest.

Locations: India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Zambia
Key skills: Ice diving (under frozen rivers), net fishing, riverbed farming
Memorable moments: HUMAN PLANET COMPLETE-Episodes 1-8

Rivers give life, but they also take it. Episode 7 of HUMAN PLANET COMPLETE-Episodes 1-8 is the most dangerous episode to film. We start in Brazil where the Kayapo tribe believes a photograph steals their soul. They eventually allow filming of their pygmy peccary hunt. Then, we move to the Mekong River where a fisherman rides a waterfall using only a rope to catch spawning carp. Theme: Utilizing the biodiversity of the rainforest

The emotional core of this episode is the Fisherman and the Dolphin in Brazil. Laguna fishermen wait for wild dolphins to herd mullet toward the shore. The dolphins signal (by slapping their tails) when to cast the nets. Humans and dolphins have been cooperating like this for generations. It is the only known symbiotic fishing relationship in the world. Rivers give life, but they also take it

Conversely, the episode shows the destruction of the Jiroft Dam in Iran, where mud brick villages crumble. The river provides, and the river takes away.