Television: While Bonnin brings lightly worn scientific rigour to her work, the blockbuster grandeur of top-rank nature telly is thin on the groundwill know all about thriving in bleak and inhospitable environments. Since flying free of Montrose and becoming established at the BBC, the Dubliner has gone on to a successful career as a potential heir to David Attenborough.
That said, Liz Bonnin’s Wild Caribbean , her new four-part nature travelogue, is underwhelming. Its mission to celebrate the natural wonder of the Caribbean is personal to Bonnin, whose mother is from Trinidad. “The Caribbean shaped my childhood,” she says in an opening voiceover. “There’s a relationship between life on land and sea you can find nowhere else on earth. There’s more to this place than meets the eye.
‘I live in a little converted cow shed while I restore my new home’: A property writer’s renovation projectThere’s lots to see and do, yet for all Bonnin’s enthusiasm and command of the facts, the results fall short of gripping. Near the village of Los Limones, she watches volunteers climb a tree to rescue a Ridgeway’s Hawk chick at risk of parasites.
Then it’s back to dry land, where conservationists help liberate flamingos kept on hotel grounds, where they lose their distinctive pink colour and are forced into stressful interactions with passersby. Bonnin applauds with joy as the flamingos are set free and flap about uncertainly on a pristine shoreline.
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