The five-part series "Mediterranean Expedition" starts in Marseilles, in the south of France and takes the viewer on a journey through Italy and on further to Greece. The region around the Mediterranean is the cradle of Western culture and birthplace of its legends. The flamingo from the marshes of the Rhone delta is the legendary phoenix from the ashes. The Little Owl, the owl depicted in the tem..

While the sea team dives in the Strait of Messina for the six-gill shark, one of the largest sharks in the world, the land team is starting out above Messina. Together with experts, they are tracking a hunter that was almost wiped out completely: the wolf. Via Rome - the Eternal City, the foundation of which is attributed to a she-wolf - the journey leads on to the Marche region on the Italian Adr..

This time, the expedition team's route takes them over land from Istanbul in Turkey along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean to Egypt. On the Bosporus, thousands of white storks cross the narrow strait between Asia and Europe every autumn. Cruising pink-backed pelicans, filmed from a light aircraft on the Syrian-Lebanese border and 40,000 resting cranes off the Golan Heights - these are sights..

This journey starts at the gates of the Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar, and heads towards Morocco. Eight times more water flows into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic than is carried by the largest river on earth, the Amazon. Sea turtles, on their long trek from the Caribbean come and go in this current. Unique underwater footage shows how other cross-border commuters, the dolphins, hunt..

In terms of diversity of species, the Mediterranean is still a paradise of our planet. In the waters alone there are more than 16,000 species, from single-cell organisms to sea turtles to whales. And yet there is no other sea in the world where the animals are as threatened as they are here. More than 40 fish species from the Mediterranean, including some tuna varieties, are at immediate risk of e..