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Planet Earth III
2023 · TV series · documentary · 1 season
Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the world's most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.
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This is covered a little bit in episode 8, Heroes, of Planet Earth III, though this article has significantly more detail .
There's a little hope, they overwinter in Mexico, and there one can still count them in the millions (the just aired episode 6 of the latest Planet Earth III series shows trees covered in them in a forest full of them, the caveat being recent more extreme winter storms can kill 75% of the almost dormant monarchs), though we don't know what the minimum viable population for them is.
> I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?
I really don't understand how you go from this story to that question. There are two, new, interesting things here:
1. The dev has made something which narrates their life. That's new and interesting
2. David Attenborough actually is still producing new (and amazing) nature documentaries. Planet Earth III has just come out and is astounding https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gjwxhv