24 December 2005
Hawaiian Cave Dig
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From rare land forms and unique species in outback Australia we now go to something equally extraordinary in the Hawaiian Islands. A cave on the Island of Kauai made famous by the Indiana Jones movie The Temple of Doom. On the remote Southern Shores of Kauai a remarkable cave is revealing secrets of a long forgotton world. Paeleo ecologist Dr David Burney is finding fossils dating back to the Pleistocene more than a million years ago. He's using his discoveries to restore the environment around this national treasure to the way it was before Polynesians arrived.
Guests
Dr David Burney
Conservation Director National Tropical Botanical Garden Kauai Hawaii
Further Information
National Tropical Botanical Garden
http://www.ntbg.org
