TV Guide Sky Nature Saturday

Documentary following the work of staff at the RSPCA hospital in Brisbane, with one vet giving a koala mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, while another performs microsurgery on a fruit bat. A bath-averse python faces its fears and an owl is rescued

How dogs are trained to use smell for life-saving conservation work and environmental policing. Featuring a South African dog helping to monitor endangered tortoises, a labrador who ensures that non-native zebra mussels do no damage to the habitats of Western Canada, and a whale scat detection dog, who plays a vital role in research into the decline of orca whales

A documentary about the largest groundwater reservoir in Europe, which forms an underground river in the Upper Rhine Valley. Underwater cameraman Serge Dumont capture footage of the inhabitants of this biotope

The naturalist and film-maker explores the many varieties of plant life housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London, and explains what they reveal about the natural world and the development of life on Earth. He begins inside the establishment's Palm House, whose climate has been engineered to simulate conditions found in rainforests, charting the evolution of plants that grow in the world's wettest regions and investigating how flowering plants spread across the globe so rapidly