Airdate: Wild Arabia

A new 3-part naure series Wild Arabia begins next week on SBS, capturing the colour and wildlife of an exotic landscape.

Arabia is a breathtaking mix of deserts, seas, mystery and romance. This beautiful series reveals the surprising connections between the nature, people, landscape and history of this little known kingdom.

With unique access, this breathtaking and revealing doco mini-series moves between the vast scale of Arabia’s astonishing landscapes and the creatures and remarkable people who have made this region their home, exploring Arabia’s past, present and future.

This is a definitive journey through Arabia, bringing to the screens some of the least visited and most extreme environments on Earth, from the sand dunes of Saudi Arabia to the coastal mountains of Oman, the lush forests of Yemen to the warm waters of the Gulf Sea. As new wealth floods into the area, the relationship between nature and technology is changing faster than ever. Wildlife stories and landscapes are set against the background of rapid social change – from ancient desert customs to the ultra-modern cityscapes of the Arabian Gulf.

Episode One: Sand Wind and Stars
Few places on earth evoke more mystery and romance than Arabia. Now for the first time we are able to enter the forbidding wilderness and reveal a magical cast a characters. From snow-white oryx that inspired the myth of the unicorn to long-legged jerboa leaping ten times their own body length through the star- filled Arabian nights. Horned vipers hunt glow-in-dark scorpions while Bedouin nomads race their camels across the largest sand desert in the world.

Wednesday, 6 August at 7.30pm on SBS ONE.