The Valdivian Rainforest (Pt. 1) - The World Turned Upside Down

Have you ever wondered why the globe is always pictured with north being up? Join Patrick as he travels across the globe to a place that is far away, but strangely familiar. Nearly 90% of the diversity in the southern temperate rainforests can be found nowhere else on earth, and many of the plants and animals here have their origins in a now permanently frozen continent-Antarctica! The closest relatives of many of the plants found here today are found in New Zealand, Tasmania or South Africa, strange indeed. Though this place may be quite different in many respects from home, it is also very familiar. There is a shared heritage, a similar climate, and perhaps a shared ecological history. I hope you'll join me on an expedition into the other side of the globe, the temperate rainforests of Chile, a world that for us is quite literally turned upside down.