This morning Earth-Touch, one of Flow Communication’s clients, launched its first ever TV offering, a wildlife programme called Wild-Touch, on South African television station SABC2.
The programme will air Monday to Friday at 10.30am, and strives to bring viewers beautiful footage of wildlife in its natural environment in Southern Africa and around the world, within 48 hours of it being filmed.
Flow Communications has been involved in the creation of the programme, in both script development and research. In fact, two Flow staff members (Itumeleng Makgobathe and Christine Marot) are permanently based in Earth-Touch headquarters in Durban, South Africa.
The programme went live after SABC2’s morning news programme, Morning Live, broadcast live from the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, in honour of the launch. World-renowned conservationist, Dr Ian Player, who was a guest on the show, said of Wild-Touch, “This is one of the most important programmes the SABC will ever do.” Player said the programme would help to inspire people to visit national parks and to preserve their natural heritage.
The footage is derived largely from the wildlife footage that theEarth-Touch film crews send in to us daily. This morning’s show featured buffalo in Botswana, geometric and honeycomb moray eels,clownfish and anemones in the Indian Ocean, chacma baboons in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi, and a tarantula spider in Ecuador, South America,among other species.
Flow staff watching Wild-Touch live on SABC2