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Disneynature Earth Q&A

4 The Love Of Animals

We just pulled back, and we pulled back, and we pulled back, and ended with this tiny, tiny dot in the middle of the wide expanse of the Artic Ocean, and it was a very emotional moment for me. Fothergill: For me, it has to be Svalbard, which is an archipelago of islands between Greenland and northern Norway.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

I was quite shocked to learn that my last Northern Gannets were seen in Norway waaaaay back in 1992, some 15 years ago! However, after returning from the States to Germany in 2007 and with the birth of my son, I took stock of my European bird species – those I had on my life list – reflecting on when I had last seen them.

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