A new episode of BBC Studio’s Green Planet series will air this Wednesday, July 27th on PBS at 8:00 p.m. We hope you will tune in to watch this special “Desert Worlds” episode that was filmed locally with the help of one of our RillitoBend neighbors.
Local desert ecologists Ben Wilder, Robert Villa, Erin Riordan, and our very own Trica Oshant Hawkins worked with Sir David Attenborough, narrator, and Paul Williams, producer, for three years in order to obtain all the needed footage. The pandemic did not deter them as they ventured to extremely remote locations in Mexico (including the Gran Desierto de Altar and Isla San Pedro Martir) and local desert hot spots such as the Tucson Mountains, Tumamoc Hill, Ironwood Forest National Monument, and Saguaro National Park East.
And unbeknownst to most of us, Sir David was right here in our neighborhood in November 2019, when he and the BBC team were hosted at Trica’s home on Cactus Blvd for a quick lunch between shoots.
