A series filmed along the world's most biodiverse line
Few places on Earth are as magical, mysterious, daunting or beautiful as the ribbon of biodiversity that runs beneath the Equator — an invisible line stretching just over 40,000 kilometres around the planet's midsection, linking an extraordinary range of landscapes, animals, plants and people under a single, sultry, ageless climate.
In many ways, the equatorial region is the original paradise: it's where nearly all life, humanity included, first began, and it remains the most biodiverse place on Earth — the only region where species simply don't go extinct. Here, days barely vary, seasons don't exist, and twice a year the sun sits directly overhead, erasing shadows entirely.
It's also ground zero for global warming. As the sun above grows more merciless, creatures across the region are being forced to flee north or south — the beginning of an exodus from Eden, and the start of a cascade of conflicts as unpredictable as they are fascinating.