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Former President Barack Obama has been revealed to narrate Netflix’s new nature docuseries Our Great National Parks. Obama is also an executive producer for the series.
He will be seen traveling the world seeking “species found nowhere else on earth,” only in the remote locations he is set to traverse in the five-episode project. He describes the program as a “celebration of our planet’s greatest national parks and wilderness” that features unusual creatures with extraordinary behaviors.
Obama says in the series’ first trailer, “When humanity started to protect these wild places, we did not realize how important they would become. They’re a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.”
The 44th president had established and expanded protections for 550 million acres of American public lands and water during his term.
Later in the trailer, Obama focuses on a sloth whose coat contains an entire mini biological system within it. On this, Obama says that it could help “fight cancer, malaria, and anti-resistant superbugs” and that the tree-dwelling mammal may be able to help “save us all.”
Obama is set to travel to Monterey Bay, Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, the rainforests of Indonesia’s Gunung Leuser National Park, and the Chilean Patagonia, among others.Our Great National Parks was made in collaboration with Wild Space, Higher Ground Productions, and Freeborne Media and will premiere all five of its 60-minute episodes on April 13.
