Netflix, in collaboration with Silverback Films and WWF, will premiere Our Planet in 2019. It is a new eight-part natural history series made by the creators of the critically acclaimed series Planet Earth.

The four-year project will take viewers into wilderness areas from the ice caps and deep ocean to deserts and remote forests. Using the latest in 4K camera technology, the series and a range of specially produced storytelling for multi-media platforms will bring people into contact with some of the world’s rarest animals and natural habitats.

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The Our Planet series is being produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who created Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and Blue Planet for the BBC, as well as the Disneynature films Earth, Bears, African Cats and Chimpanzee.

WWF, the world’s leading conservation organization, is providing the Silverback team access to its projects in protected areas around the world and will collaborate on multi-media storytelling across its web and other platforms.