The Lost Lagoon - Nature Paradise in Peril | Free Documentary Nature

The Lost Lagoon - Nature Paradise in Peril | Wildlife Documentary

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On one of the wildest coastlines in Africa, lies an estuary. For hundreds of years it existed, secluded, and life in its waterways has been uninterrupted. Its ebb and flow creates a magical environment that is never the same at any given moment.
In modern times, it’s been guarded by war. The heated 20 year bush conflict that raged in central Mozambique cut off access to the lagoon, and it was only a decade ago that the sand track down to the coast was cut into any semblance of a road.
The lagoon is a hidden network of tidal flats, channels and clear waterways. Mangrove swamps and sea-grass beds hide rarely seen creatures with bizarre lifestyles.
Life in this lagoon is governed by the moon and the tidal cycles. This regulates the seasons so that complex life forms can develop, adapt, and thrive. Every 6 hours these tides change, pushing seawater into the lagoon, and sucking it out again. This constant breathing of the tides has resulted in the weirdest array of creatures, little known to man. Fish that walk on land, crabs that corkscrew beneath the mud. Giant super slugs vacuum food from the floor here, some fish swim backwards and others upside down.
Twilight sees predators commuting through the mouth of the lagoon. The scene changes from a bright, sparkly one to a dark, dangerous world for the residents of the weed beds. Everything here seems to eat everything else. Crabs dart out, trying to catch little fish, flatfish lie in wait and moray eels snap at passing shoals. The ruler of the night here is the cuttlefish. Teams of cuttles hunt silently above the weed, puffing fronds apart to reveal hiding food.
But now the lagoon has been found, the war is over, and humans have begun to settle on its tender shores. They probe the flats and net the mouth, trapping fish destined for its upper reaches. Will this added pressure tilt the precarious balance of the lost lagoon? Can this array of strange creatures survive alongside the greatest predator of all?

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