Though it may have not felt like it over the past several years, the world is, in fact, a beautiful place, and when human beings put their minds to it, they can preserve the innumerable natural wonders that make up this blue-green globe. There is nothing more human than the concept of a national park. Preserving massive spaces for flora and fauna to flourish is, at the end of the day, impractical, though it is, in some cases, necessary for environmental reasons. Nevertheless, people continue to protect and preserve this planet.

Netflix’s 2022 nature docuseries Our Great National Parks is an excellent example of just this phenomenon. Hosted by former United States President Barack Obama, the series delves into some of the planet’s most awe-inspiring National Parks and the critters that call them home. If Our Great National Parks gets a second season, what natural nooks might audiences be privy to? Here is what we hope to see and wish to visit!

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Serengeti National Park in Tanzania

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Lions, leopards, and wildebeests. Oh, my! These are just a few of Serengeti National Park’s features. The park encompasses nearly 6,000 square miles of northern Tanzania and boasts a truly staggering amount of biodiversity. Perhaps most importantly, Serengeti National Park is home to the great migration, a stunning spectacle where over a million wildebeest, as well as hundreds of thousands of zebras, make their way across the Serengeti to find new, fresh grazing locales. These huddles of hungry herbivores subsequently attract the largest population of lip-licking lions in all of Africa.

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An Our Great National Park episode focusing on Serengeti National Park would also serve as an excellent platform for discussing deforestation and animal protections. Hundreds of thousands of innocent animals are killed by poachers every year, and less direct human action, like population growth and the raising of livestock, slowly chip away at the boundaries of Serengeti National Park. If season two does not come about soon, there may be very little Serengeti left to film.

Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal

In the first season of Our Great National Parks, there is a significant focus on animal life. This is understandable, as slithering snakes and ambling armadillos make for better television than rivers and rocks. However, in a potential season two, Sagarmatha National Park could be the setting for an episode that chooses to focus on the landscape rather than life. Sagarmatha National Park is home to Mount Everest, so animals would be few and far between on this tract of land. However, the gorgeous gullies and majestic mountains, filmed via high-tech drones, would undoubtedly enrapture audiences.

Additionally, a potential Sagarmatha National Park episode would be an excellent way to discuss the myriad issues surrounding summiting Mount Everest in the modern era. The peaks of Mount Everest, forever untouched by human hands, have begun in recent years to bear the stains of humanity. Lines of inexperienced expeditioners crowd the summit, garbage litters the mountainside, and bodies, unable to be moved from the mountains, lie frozen in macabre displays. Our Great National Parks would best serve its audiences by discussing the ways in which avoiding certain, more popular natural locales will better serve in their preservation.

Fiordland National Park in New Zealand

Fiordland National Park fills fast swaths of New Zealand’s southwest edge. At nearly 5,000 square miles, it is the largest in the nation. Its picturesque namesake, the fjords, were carved out by the movements of ancient glaciers. The most popular of these fjords is Milford sound. The park also features mountains, lakes, waterfalls, and mountains, making for a gorgeous and lush landscape.

Furthermore, Fiordland National Park would be an excellent stage for filming all manner of crazy critters. The park is something of a refuge for countless threatened and endangered species.

Notably, there are several species of bird found exclusively in New Zealand that are under stringent protection in the park: the takahe, a flightless swamphen that was once nearly extinct, the brightly featured yellowhead, and the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot whose population is now thought to be under 200. These beautiful birds would likely inspire an interesting conservation conversation. Most importantly, Fiordland National Park has penguins, and every nature documentary needs penguins.

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It may not always seem like it, but the world is a beautiful place. Our Great National Parks proved this throughout its season one run. Audiences were gifted with wildly disparate sets of flora and fauna and learned the ways in which this planet’s myriad ecosystems function and how human action threatens these delicate processes. Audiences must demand a season two of Our Great National Parks. There is a whole lot of world left out there.