^Cameraman Hugh Miles won an Emmy Award (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematographers) for this episode.
References
^"Television". The Guardian. 29 October 1983. p. 26. A new series from the acclaimed World About Us stable opens, appropriately, with a report on the latest efforts to save the giant panda of China - the World Wildlife Fund's symbol for endangered species. The film records the unique work of a Sino-American team in breeding the animals in the wild - a job made harder by the current threat to the panda's favourite food.
^"The Observer's Television and Radio Guide". The Observer. 6 November 1983. p. 48. Retrieved 30 October 2018. A Kilimanjaro Sketchbook. Using both film and some of the drawings included in his seven-volume ' Animal Atlas,' artist zoologist Jonathan Kingdon looks at some old questions in a new way.
^"Television". The Guardian. 12 November 1983. p. 24. Retrieved 30 October 2018. This is the time of year for much coming and going in the bird world, with some species departing for the sun. others arriving to winter in Britain, all miraculously knowing when to go, and where. This film enjoys the spectacle, examines the most recent speculation about the bird-brain "computer" that works out the migratory programme.
^"Television". The Guardian. 19 November 1983. p. 28. Retrieved 30 October 2018. Spare a thought for film makers David and Carol Hughes, who spent 17 months in the Costa Rican rain forest recording the exotic ecology of a disappearing world - only to have C4 beat them to it by a day...
^"The Observer's Television and Radio Guide". The Observer. 20 November 1983. p. 48. Retrieved 30 October 2018. Husband-and-wife naturalists - Carol and David Hughes - film In a Costa Rican rain forest.
^"Sunday Television Guide". Weekend Guardian. 7 January 1989. p. 45. Retrieved 31 October 2018. From BBC Bristol, a three-part natural history of the great ocean and its inhabitants, from the Arctic tern, which migrates over its 12,000 mile span, to the nameless denizens of its volcanic deeps.
^"Weekend Watching Brief". Weekend Guardian. 21 January 1989. p. 44. Retrieved 31 October 2018. High-tech submarines two miles down under the Atlantic find creatures never seen before in a weird environment once thought to be lifeless, where mineral rich water - hot enough to melt lead - spurts out of underwater volcanoes and supports teeming hordes of blind fish and Crustacea. Elsewhere, mussels, tubeworms and crabs live on the natural gas leaking from oil fields beneath the ocean floor.