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World on the Move

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Discover the incredible migrations of creatures great and small with our new site for ‘World on the Move’, a collaborative project from BBC Radio 4 and the Natural History Unit.

The ambitious World on the Move project allows audiences to follow some of the natural world’s most astounding migrations, via a series of 40 half-hour programmes broadcast throughout the year on Radio 4. The programmes follow animals as diverse as monarch butterflies, African elephants and humpback whales as they travel across the planet, presented through interviews and in-depth dispatches from by BBC journalists along the routes.

Our innovative website is designed to encourage BBC audiences to participate more than ever before. Users help shape the content, contributing sightings, adding their own images to the pool, and debating the issues raised by the series.

On the site, users can listen again to content from the radio programmes, or delve more deeply into web-only content from specialist journalists and partners from around the world. A Google maps mash-up allows users to see the predicted migration path for each of the species featured in the series, and then maps the actual path as it unfolds throughout the series. This interactive map also lets users quickly browse and navigate other users’ contributions, displaying geo-aware Flickr images and comments from across the site.

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