These are the days of thirst: it is hot. Only the mountains are cool everywhere else suffers in heat between 40 and 50C. The rain is long forgotten. Each day is a search for shade and water.
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Anchorage is home to hundreds of black bears. And it's these black bears, that are patrolling the city. With their brains, their brawn and their cunning, these bears have mastered life in this urban jungle.
This unique arctic metropolis, is home to hundreds of bears and over two thousand moose. But most surprising, are the city's five wild wolfpacks.
Three adult lions and two wild leopards must swap enclosures, a dangerous exercise and if things can go wrong, they will.
Prosecuted for many decades, Africa's lion population has declined to only twenty thousand, and many biologists and conservationists are starting an international campaign to save these extraordinary animals.
As the savanna turns lush, Africa's most elusive creatures emerge to cash in on the seasonal abundance in a relentless, high-stakes quest to feed.
Anchorage is home to a huge number of porcupines, living in the city's streets, gardens and parks. But life on the streets also takes its toll. Porcupines are the city's number one roadkill.
Anchorage is home to an animal renowned as nature's lumberjack and North Americas largest rodent, the beaver. Since humans arrived in Anchorage, many beavers have been forced to live in an urban jungle!
The true meaning of conservation manifests when man and nature unite – separation is not an option. This episode focuses on the human involvement in what used to be a natural process.
In this episode we focus on the dynamics of the driving force of natural migrations. The seasonal movement of wild animals between pastures is a natural phenomenon, but not everywhere.
What is the purpose of keeping animals in captivity? Conservation or entertainment? Find out as Swati tours several different facilities for answers.
Will the greatest predator on earth survive our exploitation of the ocean and the mass slaughter for their fins? In this episode Swati walks with Sharks.
A conservation success story, the Cape fur seal numbers are healthy. But this has paradoxically thrown up serious conservation issues from protecting endangered seabird nesting sites, conflict with fishermen and seal culling.
Endemic only to South Africa, the African penguins are a national treasure and yet they face a sixteen year countdown to extinction. Can this be reversed? Swati walks with the penguins to answer these questions.
Swati walks with more of Africa's lions and learns about more conservation issues that surround them. Are Africa's lions endangered? Can their population decline be halted? Does Africa have space for its greatest land predator? All this and more.
Come walk with Africa's lions. Swati learns about the cruel practice of canned lion hunts and the people who are fighting to have it banned entirely.
Walk with leopards as Swati travels to the Cederburg mountains to learn about the cape leopard, to question what puts leopards in conflict with people and what the solutions to this conflict might be?
Enter the underwater golden forests and walk the beaches between the intertidal zones as Swati discovers the amazing but fast depleting biodiversity of the world's wildest coastline in the cape of storms.
Swati walks in the footsteps of the san, the early hunter gatherers of southern Africa. Come to !Khwa ttu, to learn about their history, culture and why they are some of the world's first passionate conservationists.
Can the African elephant evers be tamed? Is it possible to sustain an entire tourism industry based on them being domesticated? Swati walks with the elephants of Knysna park while these questions are asked.
Can captive bred ambassador cheetahs of the Cheetah Outreach in Cape Town can help save their counterparts in the wild? Swati finds out if the motto of Cheetah Outreach, see it, Sense it, Save it, can help the wild cheetah?
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