Award-winning, international filmmaker NHNZ has enthralled millions of viewers for more than three decades with their documentaries. In collaboration with TVNZ, NHNZ now makes their highly acclaimed Wild South programmes available on DVD.

Wild South - Volume 4 features:

BATTLE FOR BREAKSEA ISLAND (1990)
In the beginning, flightless New Zealand native birds, like the Kakapo and the Kiwi, found everything they needed on the forest floor - except predators. But as New Zealand becameinhabited, the rat followed, invading the mainland and countless islands, killing as they multiplied. But in 1988, the rat busters came to remote Breaksea Island. This is the story of that battle.

DUNE (1990)
The shifting sands that form the dunes are the agents and the products of change - driven by the elements and the tides. This film takes you to one of the harshest environments on the planet - a place where change is the only constant.

POSSUM - A NEW ZEALAND NIGHTMARE (1990)
Possums - once the source of a thriving fur trade and now more numerous than sheep - thanks to a predator-free environment, are still growing in number. How is the famed New Zealand number 8 wire ingenuity going to beat back this menace, which is stripping our forest of food,foliage and native birds?

PUKEKO (1990)
In the heart of Aucklands Western Springs wetlands live two unlikely families. Promiscuous, incestuous and living in an entirely natural way - meet New Zealands native Pukeko.

SANCTUARY (1990)
Kapiti Island Reserve, established in the 1890s, has been a refuge for some of the countrys mostunique wildlife. This film shares the time environmentalists John Kendrick and Geoff Moon spendon Kapiti Island as they show us some of their work and discuss the islands management future.