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Orchid Hunter
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Program Overview
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For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas
who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian
rain forest. Now Hart Dyke is at it again in the most orchid-rich
and politically unstable part of Papua New Guinea. NOVA investigates
an all-consuming passion that for some people is more precious than
life itself. Ranging from the scientific to the sociological, Orchid
Hunter covers research at the forefront of plant biology. Long of
interest to scientists because of their remarkable evolutionary
history, orchids are equally exciting to collectors, who have made
them a multibillion-dollar industry.
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