Name: The Wonder List with Bill Weir
Uploaded: 2025-04-23T03:15:04.000Z
Description: CNN's chief climate correspondent Bill Weir shares stories of extraordinary people, places, cultures and creatures at a critical crossroads.

CNN's chief climate correspondent Bill Weir shares stories of extraordinary people, places, cultures and creatures at a critical crossroads.

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On these unspoiled islands in the South Pacific, native tribes confront the factors that threaten the traditions of an ancient people.

Vanuatu: Landlords of Paradise

The world's leading naturalists fight to keep this precious natural habitat in balance and save critically endangered species from extinction.

Galapagos: Fight For Survival

The inhabitants of this remote Greek island live far longer than most Americans, but can they maintain their centuries-old way of life in the modern world?

Ikaria: Forget To Die

Bill travels to India to study conservation efforts to save the majestic Bengal tiger and visits an architectural marvel: the Taj Mahal.

India: Tigers and the Taj

Bill journeys through the canals of Venice, where rising sea levels threaten to destroy the historic Italian city.

Venice: Sink or Swim

Bill visits the Alps to climb its incredible peaks and examine what the stakes are if the glaciers continue to melt.

The Alps: Fire and Ice

Bill visits the Florida Everglades to skim the waters, dive the swamps and meet its dazzling array of animals.

Everglades: A Fight For Glory

As the barriers to this forbidden island come down, Bill journeys to the heart of Cuba to meet the distant neighbors bracing for a tourist invasion.

Cuba: Forbidden Island

More than two-thirds of babies in Iceland are born to unmarried parents. Will this happy and healthy nation be the first to completely let go of marriage?

Iceland: The Wedding Crash

America's most iconic river sustains more than 40 million people in the west. But as populations boom and the waters recede, are we doing enough to make sure it will continue to flow?

Colorado River: Thirst

Can the magical kingdom of Bhutan, the happiest place on earth, stay blissfully content as the modern world begins to encroach its remote borders?

Bhutan: The Happiest Place

The stunning wildlife of Africa is under threat like never before. Bill goes on a safari to meet the naturalists battling to save our most precious creatures from extinction.

Botswana: The Hunted

Bill travels to Amsterdam, famed as one of the world's most liberal cities, to find out if this bastion of tolerance can stay that way amid a rising tide of intolerance.

Amsterdam: Future of Freedom

What's the best way to protect paradise? In stunning Patagonia, an American conservationist has purchased vast tracts of land to the fury of local developers.

Patagonia: Paradise Bought

As deforestation rages and unique species vanish, the fight is on to save one of the planet's most special places before it is ruined forever.

Madagascar: Richest Poor

As sea levels rise, the fate of an ancient Egyptian city sounds a stark warning of the growing threat faced by the planet's teeming coastal cities.

Egypt: The Sunken City

Miners want to drill for billions of dollars worth of copper and gold beneath the pristine wilderness of America's last wild frontier, but fishermen say the world's last great salmon run could be jeopardized.

Alaska: Buried Treasure

Conservationists turn killers in a battle to turn back time by eradicating mammal invaders threatening the islands' unique ecosystem.

New Zealand: Prey on Predators

The breathtaking Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are attracting visitors in record numbers, but can their fragile beauty be protected in the modern world?

The Wonder List with Bill Weir

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