What Documentaries and Media Projects Has Viva Natura Produced?

Viva Natura is best known for its bilingual field guides to Mexican wildlife, but the project has also extended into documentary filmmaking, broadcast contributions, and international publications. According to the project's own site, this media work grew out of more than two decades of direct field observation, and it includes at least one nationally broadcast documentary, field journal contributions, and magazine writing.

Documentary Film: Touch of the Blue Crocodile (2012)

The clearest documentary credit listed on Viva Natura is Touch of the Blue Crocodile (2012). Petr Myska's role covered production, camera work, graphics, and translation, and the film was broadcast nationally by Česká televize (Czech National TV).

That combination of roles is worth noting if you are evaluating the project's media output: it was not a case of a naturalist handing footage to a separate crew. The same person documented the wildlife and shaped how it reached a broadcast audience.

Field Journals and Magazine Contributions

Beyond film, Viva Natura lists writing and field documentation in several outlets:

• National Geographic Field Notes — two sets of entries are named on the site: Mexican Tropical Pacific Explorations and Salish Sea Explorations.
• Oceanographic Magazine — listed contributions.

These sit alongside the project's books rather than replacing them. The site frames them as part of a broader natural history initiative "grounded in direct observation and exploration," which is also the stated basis for the field guides.

How the Media Work Connects to the Books

The publications and media projects share one production pipeline: fieldwork first, then output in whatever format fits. The site describes the project as documenting Mexico's landscapes and biodiversity through field observation, photography, and writing since 2001, with that material feeding into books, documentaries, and exploration-based storytelling.

A concrete example of how this shows up in the books: the forthcoming 2026 Field Guide to the Marine Life of the Mexican Tropical Pacific is described as containing over 400 full-color photographs taken by the author in the wild, covering more than 200 marine species. The same in-the-field photography practice underlies the documentary camera work.

What This Means If You Are Looking for the Media

• If you want the documentary, the site identifies Touch of the Blue Crocodile (2012) and its Czech National TV broadcast — that is the broadcast detail given, not a streaming link.
• If you want shorter field writing, the National Geographic Field Notes journals and Oceanographic Magazine contributions are the named outlets.
• If you want the long-form identification material, that is the field guide line, including the Western Mexico guide (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) available now and the marine guide announced for mid-2026.

The site does not list pricing or access terms for the film or the magazine contributions, so check the respective outlets directly for availability.