The documentary series takes us to Mexico, with Explorer Jérôme Delafosse.
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It’s a return on the screens that makes fun. Eight years after stopping the program, the documentary series “New Explorers” is back on Canal +. An excellent news for reporting enthusiasts combining spectacular images, exotic discoveries and light ecological findings.
From 2007 to 2014, under the leadership of Maitena Biraben then Diego Buñuel, these “new explorers” with recognized skills and the developed ecological conscience (of the Scaphandrier Malouin Jérôme Delafosse to cook Fred Chesau to the Archeozoologist Perrine Crosmary ) went, with a cameraman, at the other end of the world. At the further away from the clichés, closer to their subject, they attached to the culture of isolated tribes, the complexities of a megacity, to sustainable development initiatives or unknown culinary flavors of a country.
Eight years later, the revoiles, these “young [who] go to meet their contemporaries at the other end of the world, apart from the big shipments, with the idea that this world is not such that ‘It is presented to us on continuous info channels, “says Christine Cauquelin, which is currently responsible for Canal + documentary unit.
Local biodiversity lesson
For this first issue of the new series, the choice is relevant with the return of Jérôme Delafosse, to the passion still communicatively. It is found in Mexico, in places of breathtaking beauty, whether it is the Atoll Banco Chinchorro on the Caribbean coast or Cabo Pulmo on the Pacific Coast.
In the middle of the reefs and in dreams of dreams, the viewer will take advantage of it to take a salutary lesson concerning local biodiversity, and discover how fishermen live from the sea while respecting it, refusing, for example, fishing at net and using the harpoon.
Between two discussions with local fishermen, and while a dark mass coming from the mangrove swimming near the surface, the sumhandrier converted into director and writer launches with a gourmet smile: “My dream is to dive With crocodiles! I plunged with sharks, giant calamarics, but crocodiles, it’s something else … “
The wish of French will come true and give one of the strongest images of this episode: the face-to-face, under water, delafosse and a rather terrifying sea crocodile. Immobile for endless seconds, the man and the beast seem to have fun. In case, an armed fisherman with a long stick stands near Delafosse.
Other strong image: In Yucatan, the long and deep descent in a cenot, gigantic freshwater well, with two French researchers installed on site. A real diving under the jungle that makes you want to join them.
Finally, an informative tour in the now-protected natural area of Cabo Pulmo, Lower California. Ecotourism is the rule in this sanctuary, a real submarine paradise with unique biodiversity.
“From the jungle to the Caribbean Sea via the Pacific waters, I discovered intact ecosystems, which would have disappeared without the commitment of a handful of men. By their only will, They prove that it is possible to live in harmony with nature “, summarizes Jerome Delafosse. We ask again.