Our cameramen manage to capture the subtlety and greatness of the dawn in the forest, where howler monkeys shout when sun rises, thousands of turtles spawn, caimans look after their nests. And barely visible animals are revealed.
As the sun returns to Africa, the merciless heat puts animals like buffaloes, lions, elephants and baboons in motion, searching for water. In the dry savanna, dawn lights up the on-going fight for life between hunters and prey.
The night lasts for months. But the sun's return changes the colours of the arctic. Great predators like the lynx, wolverine and polar bear are starving and need to work hard to eat and store energy for the next long darkness.
Two forests, one on land and another under the sea, connected by the salmon. In Canada's dawn there is a perfect chain involving such diverse species as grizzly bears, wolf-eels, giant octopus and thousand-year-old trees.
Baja California is a paradoxical ecosystem, where desert meets sea. This dawn reveals giants from opposite worlds: the whale shark, manta rays and whales in the sea - and, in the desert, the world's largest cactus.
