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|developers=Shapescape
|price=Free
|release=January 11, 2024
|tags={{collapse|content=*Animals
*Beautiful
*Choices Matter
*Custom Mobs
*Landscape
*Nature
*Narration}}
|genre=Educational
|website page=*[https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/resources/climate-science/planet-earth-III Planet Earth III Lesson Collection]
*[https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/marketplace/pdp/minecraft/planet-earth-iii/8c4a3edc-6cb4-43fa-a011-c7004e9bde61 Planet Earth III in the Marketplace]
|article=planet-earth-iii-perspectives
|article_title=Planet Earth III: Perspectives
}}
'''Planet Earth III''' is a collection of five lessons in ''[[Minecraft:Minecraft Education]]'' and a free [[Minecraft:Marketplace]] map in {{BE}}. The map was made in collaboration with BBC Earth's documentary series ''{{w|Planet Earth III}}'' and explores animals in a variety of ecosystems.

== Summary ==
The player starts the map in a research hut in the [[Minecraft:jungle]]. Further forward, they can find a projector that can replay the cutscenes they encountered during gameplay. To the left are five boards with two papers attacked to each, each paper depicting the animal the player will play as. In ''Minecraft Education'', each board is a separate lesson of the same series. Interacting with any animal image will start gameplay, starting and ending with a cutscene playable on the projector. Completing any of the ten activities will reward the player its respective trophy, adds a badge on the paper, and can be replayed.

=== Fur Seal-Great White Shark Showdown ===
After choosing any animal from the far left board, the player appears off the coast of South Africa, where the cliffs are brown-colored and the seafloor is dotted with rocky formations.

==== Cape fur seal ====
The player controls the movements of a {{wp|Cape fur seal}}, whose goal is to eat ten fish in order to fill the bar over its head. A Boost! item appears in their hotbar, granting them speed but depleting their hotbar. After eating all ten fish, a {{wp|great white shark}} spawns away from the seal, its distance indicated by the bar appearing above the fish bar. The farther right the shark fin is, the closer the shark is to the seal. To drive it away, the player has to gather three seals into a mob, which ends the minigame in victory.

==== Great white shark ====
The player controls the movements of a great white shark, whose goal is to hunt down Cape fur seals. They have to follow the scent represented by yellow mist and hide behind rock formations to avoid detection. They can also speed up using the Boost! button, but this depletes the hunger bar above the shark's head faster. Entirely depleting it ends the game by getting chased away by seals. After reaching a seal, the player must attack it using the Chomp! button, which ends the minigame successfully.

=== Lily-trotter Nest Challenge ===
The far right board depicts two {{wp|lily-trotter}}s in different stages of growth. Choosing either will bring the player during the annual flooding of the {{wp|Okavango Delta}}. There, the sky is yellow and the entire landscape is [[Minecraft:savanna]]-like, with both verdant and dry trees scattered. The water of the wetland is dark and dotted with [[Minecraft:lily pad]]s and water vegetation.

==== Lily-trotter father ====
The player takes the role of a lily-trotter father whose task is to teach his chicks how to walk across the wetland. The minigame consists of controlling the movement of three of them across the river by using the direction icons on the hotbar. Performing any move will skip the turn to the next chick. Occasionally, {{wp|African fish eagle}}s and {{wp|Nile crocodile}}s, predators threatening the chicks, will spawn, indicated by orange and red area blocks respectively targeting them. Bringing all three chicks across the river wins the minigame.

==== Lily-trotter chick ====
The player takes the role of a lily-trotter in its chick stage, who goes missing as its father alerts his other three chicks. It has to cross two rivers by walking on lily pads and swimming, but must not alert the Nile crocodiles nearby. Reaching the bank of the second river and ultimately the father wins the game.

=== Mutualistic Vibes ===
Choosing any insect from the nearest right to the middle teleports them to the top of a giant tree in the {{wp|Amazon rainforest}} in the country of {{wp|Ecuador}}. The surface below is covered in dense green fog and is dotted with bamboo-like plants.

==== Stingless bee ====
The player controls the movement of a {{wp|stingless bee}}. Many {{wp|treehopper}} mothers need its help and will reward the bee honeydew after saving their young from {{wp|assassin bug}}s. To perform the task, the player has to find distress signals from nearby treehoppers, attack the assassin bugs, and earn the honeydew rewards. If many treehopper nymphs are killed, the game is lost.

==== Treehopper ====
The player controls the movement of a treehopper mother, who must bring her young across the tree to feed on sap, which fills the circle on their heads. Feeding locations are indicated by leaf symbols and can be reached by standing on them. Ants attack the nymphs, and must be kicked out of the tree by attacking them. This fills the attack bar which, when full, grants the bees item. This summons a swarm of stingless bees that attack ants and assassin bugs. Fully feeding all the nymphs wins the game.

=== An Ecosystem Jigsaw ===
Choosing any animal from the middle board teleports the player during sunset or sunrise to the grasslands of Southern Africa, a [[Minecraft:savanna]]-like biome dotted with verdant sausage trees and bordered by a jungle.

==== Impala ====
The player takes the role of an {{wp|impala}}, the main prey of leopards that hide on treetops to attack them. They have to eat flowers from under sausage trees while trying to avoid leopard threats from treetops, indicated by a threat bar filling the closer they are to one. Getting attacked by a leopard loses the game, but eating all ten flowers wins it.

==== Leopard ====
The player plays as a leopard on the hunt for an impala below the tree it is stationed on. To catch it, it has to navigate the tree and reach the green vantage point by collecting blue hints while making as little noise as possible to avoid detection. Reaching the vantage point wins the game as the leopard leaps on the impala.

=== The Arctic Wolf-Musk Ox Challenge ===
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== Quotes ==
=== External ===
{{q|Step into a wondrous world inspired by the landmark series from BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit. Play as a series of animals like the Cape fur seal and great white shark, the musk ox and Arctic wolf, and many more. Explore locations from the Arctic tundra to the Okavango Delta. Unlock cool rewards as you learn about each animal and gain their perspective on survival!|[[Minecraft:Marketplace]] description}}

=== Internal ===
{{q|'''Cape fur seal – Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus'''<br>Location: Rocky coast of South Africa<br><br>Off the coast of South Africa, become a Cape fur seal. These amazing marine mammals have learned that the best way to survive when threatened by a great white shark – is to turn on their enemy. Gather other fur seals together in a group called a mob to drive away one of the world's most notorious apex predators.|Cape fur seal description}}

{{q|'''Great white shark – Carcharodon carcharias'''<br>Location: Rocky coast of South Africa<br><br>Notoriously ruthless predators, the great white sharks' presence has been increasing on one stretch of the South African coast in recent years. On the hunt for Cape fur seals, use your speed and the element of surprise to your advantage as you hunt your prey.|Great white shark description}}

{{q|'''Lily-trotter father – Actophilornis africanus'''<br>Location: Okavango Delta, Southern Africa<br><br>Every year, the Okavango Delta floods, turning the landscape into a vast oasis and providing much needed water for thousands of species – including the lily-trotters. As a father lily-trotter, protect your young from the dangers they face.|Lily-trotter father description}}

{{q|'''Lily-trotter chick – Actophilornis africanus'''<br>Location: Okavango Delta, Southern Africa<br><br>Nestled amongst flowering water lilies, newly hatched lily-trotter chicks learn a most important lesson... how to 'walk on water'! Their oversized feet – almost double the length of their body – allow them to trot across floating vegetation. Let's get to practicing.|Lily-trotter chick description}}

{{q|'''Stingless bee – Trigona sp.'''<br>Location: Amazon rainforest, Ecuador<br><br>Stingless bees fly in like bodyguards to protect certain treehopper species from predators, such as assassin bugs. Save the day and protect the treehopper's young to receive a sweet reward...|Stingless bee description}}

{{q|'''Treehopper – Aetalion reticulatum'''<br>Location: Amazon rainforest, Ecuador<br><br>Explore the astonishing world of the treehopper and their symbiotic relationship with stingless bees. Signal your allies and use your powerful legs to kick away potential predators.|Treehopper description}}

{{q|'''Impala – Aepyceros melanpus'''<br>Location: Southern African bush<br><br>In Southern Africa sausage trees flower before the rains come, providing a nutritious snack for impala {{sic}} and other herbivores in an otherwise parched landscape. But with this reward comes risk...|Impala description}}

{{q|'''Leopard – Panthera pardus'''<br>Location: Southern African bush<br><br>Leopards are the most adaptable of big cats, and a handful of special individuals have learnt to hunt by hiding and leaping from trees. When they jump, their prey doesn't always see them coming. Play as the leopard and try not to give yourself away...|Leopard description}}

{{q|'''Arctic wolf – Canis lupus arctos'''<br>Location: Ellesmere Island, Canada<br><br>A pack of Arctic wolves fight to rebuild their strength after one of the toughest winters on Earth. As an Arctic wolf, use your keen eyes, nose, and speed to your advantage to hunt your prey.|Arctic wolf description}}

{{q|'''Musk ox – Ovibos moschatus'''<br>Location: Ellesmere Island, Canada<br><br>The conflict between wolf and musk ox is an ancient one, and has been waged since the Ice Age. As a dominant adult male, protect your young against a pack of hungry Arctic wolves...|Musk ox description}}

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