Obama: Create national parks to stop climate change, protect nature

Gorgeous cinematography.

Compelling stories that touch your heart.

You probably had no idea that extraordinary natural wonders existed.

Delightful profiles of moms and their babies, a few minutes old.

And a powerful message about the impact climate change is having on all of this.

This is what you’ll find when you look Our National Parks: A World of WonderThe spectacular new five-episode series created and narrated by former President Barack Obama, streaming in full on Netflix.

The series, which has received a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes.com, does what no other nature series has: It highlights the important role the world’s large national parks play in mitigating natural disasters. Climate change Protecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the plants and animals that make nature so special.

Here’s Obama’s simple message:

“Create national parks to prevent climate change and protect nature.”

The series begins with the former president visiting the beaches of Hanauma Bay, Hawaii, where he grew up and where he first began to connect with the outdoors. For the next 60 minutes, viewers are treated to one stunning image after another of what Obama calls “our shared birthright.” Although subsequent episodes have focused on parks in Indonesia, Chilean Patagonia, California, and Africa, this first episode takes us around the world, giving viewers a sense of “the greatest range of life on Earth.”

If you watch nothing else, watch the Madagascar segment in the early episodes. This is where you’ll find endangered white sifaka lemur Whose black face and ears, large yellow eyes and long snake-like tail belie a creature capable of crossing deadly chasms and high spikes of stone.

Lemurs are definitely the Tom Cruise of the animal kingdom. And just like when you’re watching “Mission: Impossible,” you’ll hold your breath like an eight-week-old baby clinging to its mother as she climbs from spike to spike, filled with only food. She starts frolicking in the branches of the tree. They reach safety. “Mom gives her a lot of encouragement, which gives her the confidence to go out and explore her new world,” Obama says. Over time, he will cover a distance of 30 feet in a single jump. Until then, these are baby steps.”

footage of costa rica Manuel Antonio Park Focus on the three-toed sloth, a creature with the slowest metabolism of any mammal on Earth. The interesting thing about this animal is that it can take it a month to digest a single leaf, plus it hosts an entire “micro kingdom” of at least 80 species within its fur.

Obama says the sloth’s furry ecosystem is like a “miniature pharmaceutical factory, where fungi in the fur produce chemicals that have the potential to fight cancer, malaria and antibiotic-resistant superbugs.”

“If we can protect him and his rainforest, this sleeping sloth could save us all.”

Throughout the series, Obama presents just enough facts to surprise but not overwhelm. A brief section on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef explains why it is the largest reef in the world. More importantly, although corals make up only 1% of the ocean, they make up about 25% of all marine life. It is no surprise that Coral bleaching due to climate change A matter of international concern.

The overview also includes Yellowstone, the world’s first national park and home to the largest concentration of wildlife in the lower 48 states. According to Obama’s report, it is “one of America’s greatest ideas.”

Episode 2 highlights Chilean Patagonia. While I’ve hiked and camped in Yellowstone, dived on the Great Barrier Reef, and even seen one of those Costa Rican sloths, Patagonia is still on my bucket list, And Obama’s series shows why. Spectacular mountain ranges stretch for more than a thousand miles, while animals like the puma, a mountain lion, and the guanaco, a relative of the llama, dine below. This episode inspired me to pack my bags and move out.

Episode 3 takes the audience Tsavo National Park In Kenya. Amidst the amazing footage of hippos, rhinos and leopards, the scene of an elephant trying to avoid trucks while crossing a busy road reminds viewers that, as amazing as the parks are, some of them are still not big enough or safe. So that they can be protected. The wildlife within.

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary A giant sea cauldron, swarmed by orcas, sharks, dolphins and a magnificent blue whale, shines in Episode 4. In between encounters with other animals, a mother sea otter is looking for a way to keep her baby of just a few hours old warm and dry Migratory monarch butterflies fill the sky as she goes in search of food.

But these are not all pretty pictures. Obama warned that the health of oceans around the world is declining drastically. Ocean temperatures are rising, causing damage to entire ecosystems. Fish stocks are decreasing. Pollution is increasing, as shown by footage of plastic bags and other garbage floating in the water. To address these threats, we need to expand and connect our marine sanctuaries. In fact, it’s a key part of Obama’s message: As wonderful as our land and ocean parks and sanctuaries are, we need more.

we also want Make choices that will make a difference, “Inspire your communities to adopt better climate practices,” he encourages. “And vote like the planet depends on it.”

“There’s no more time to waste. The world we leave for our children is very important. The time to act is now.”

Parental Advisory: The first episode of World of Wonder should be a good read for children of all ages. In each subsequent episode, there is a scene lasting 5–10 minutes that shows one animal hunting and killing another as part of the food chain process. If you’re watching with children under 12 or anyone who might be distressed by it, you may want to speed through those scenes.