DISCOVERY ANIMAL PLANET FILMS INDONESIAN ADVENTURE

Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet film crew spent the first half of November in Bali and Eastern Indonesia filming wildlife for a one-hour segment to appear on the channel’s “Jeff Corwin Experience” program in 2001. Tentative airdate is March 18, 2001.

From Bali, the six-man US-based film team flew to Sumbawa to board a traditional pinisi schooner to sail through Komodo National Park, stopping to film the indigenous Komodo dragon monitor lizards, fruit bats and other wildlife on Komodo, Rinca and surrounding islands. They also conducted several day and night dives to showcase the rich underwater marine life.

Returning to Bali, the focus was reptiles.

Cooperating in the film production were: the Indonesian Consulate in Los Angeles, US. Consular Agency Bali, Indonesian Foreign Ministry and Environment Ministry, Forestry and Parks Department, Komodo National Park, West Bali National Park, The Nature Conservancy Indonesia, World Wide Fund for Nature Indonesia Program Bali Office, Bali Department of Information, Bali Governor’s Office, Ngurah Rai International Airport customs and immigrations officials Bali Reptile Park.

Bali-based Travel Works Communications International facilitated filming permits and press credentials throughout the shoot. The segment is produced by Popular Arts Entertainment of Los Angeles, California. Travel arrangements were made by Asia Transpacific Journeys, Boulder, Colorado.