Mount Etna: Wildlife at the base of Europe's most active volcano | Wild Italy - Ash and Lava

Mount Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe and it lies in Sicily, surrounded by the unique landscape of Mediterranean woods and high-altitude plant communities where many species such as honey buzzards nesting in the oak and birch woods, colonies of bee eaters in the Alcantara river gorges, foxes, wild boars and snakes in oak woodland at the base of the mountain.
The film shows daylight and amazing nocturnal sequences of the latest eruptions, with aerial views shot by drones at 3,500 metres of altitude. There is also a detailed description of the endemic plants and insects living in the high-altitude lava fields and how continuous volcanic eruptions allow the mineral world to be colonised by living beings.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00 - Intro
▷ 00:58 - Wild Italy - Ash and Lava
▷ 02:10 - Crossbill
▷ 05:44 - Fox
▷ 07:43 - Grasshopper
▷ 12:00 - Hare
▷ 12:51 - Golden Eagle
▷ 15:19 - Birch Forest
▷ 16:59 - Fox
▷ 17:33 - Wild Boar
▷ 18:50 - Hornets
▷ 20:54 - Moth
▷ 22:39 - Honey Buzzard
▷ 28:34 - Euphorbia, Hawkmoth
▷ 31:15 - Wolf Spider, Tarantula
▷ 34:09 - Ants, Ant Lion
▷ 37:07 - Bee Eater
▷ 41:10 - Woodpigeon
▷ 41:33 - Peregrine
▷ 48:41 - Credits
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A million years ago, Italy was a battlefield where enormous, violent volcanoes offered competing displays of bursts of fire, lava flows, clouds of hot ash, and showers of lapilli. They raised mountains and erased valleys. It was a mineral world: there was no room for plants or animals. Then, a hundred thousand years ago, one by one the volcanoes stopped erupting and rain gradually filled the ancient craters, turning them into lakes. It was the beginning of a new adventure for life, which this time conquered the land of volcanoes.
Francesco Petretti, biologist, graduated with a thesis on the behaviour of eagles. He was in charge of the Biodiversity Department of the World Wildlife Fund in Italy, served as scientific consultant of the Italian League for the Protection of Birds and he is a member of the Bustard Group of Birdlife.
He teaches Conservation Biology at the University of Perugia. He works as a film director for Italian Broadcast RAI and for the company Diomedea studium, which has been producing wildlife films since 2005. Francesco’s films have been awarded at the Menigoute Ornithological Film Festival and at Wildscreen 2005 (The Life of the Snake Eagle).
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