All great apes are highly endangered partly due to hunting and illegal pet trade, but mainly due to shrinking habitats. Sitting in the tree tops and jungles is a reminder of our past and our responsibilities for the future.
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A fruitful break-in puts food on the table but ends in disaster when one of the troop gets a huge shock on an electricity pylon.
The rains bring new life. Lush new grass is saving the 58 elephant families from hunger. An extraordinary annual reunion brings hundreds of elephants together in scenes of celebration, play and romance.
In the relentless drought, the youngest calves are starving. Hunger is driving elephants to forage on surrounding farms. Echo's keeps her family to the swamp. Rains arrive, but after five days, the much-needed downpours dwindle to sparse showers.
On the plains of Amboseli, the rains are two months late. Echo brings the family to the palms to eat the last leaves. The wise matriarch resists the temptation to take them to inhabited areas where fresh crops are springing up and conflict waits.
We humans are a funny bunch with our superstitions and beliefs – and many of these involve animals.
Saving The Mustang explores the state of wild horses today through the efforts of three individuals. All stories interweave a compelling tale of perseverance and determination.
Janice is being kept busy with a rare case of a dog who uses prosthetics on both front legs. A schnoodle with a ton of allergies and a rescued greyhound also seek help for some recent injuries, while a cart-using Pyrenees mix proves to be one stubborn pup.
The Florida Everglades are home to thousands of invasive plant, insect and animal species and yet the Burmese Python is perceived as the biggest concern. Are they a problem or is this snake hysteria?
A cold snap has hit the state of Florida and frigid temperatures are killing thousands of native and non-indigenous animals of all species. Has Mother Nature solved their python problem?
In this episode we relocate two of the largest antelope species in Africa, the Kudu and the Waterbuck. Both these species require a helicopter and very competent ground crew.
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.
In a shark-filled adventure, Blue World travels to the Bahamas to meet Neal Harvey, a world-renown shark handler who will attempt to teach us how to put Caribbean Reef sharks into a relaxed state known as tonic immobility!
Blue World heads down to the shipwrecks of North Carolina (USA) to observe how these wrecks have become home to thousands of animals, including Sand Tiger sharks.
In the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Blue World investigates some of the densest coral reefs in the Caribbean as they spawn under cover of darkness.
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.
Michael needs to face her fears now and learn the critical task of hand feeding young birds. If she doesn't, they will certainly die. But can she master the task in time?
As more starving penguin chicks are rescued, Michaela must work as hard as she can to keep the youngsters alive, but can she keep up with the pace as the birds keep on coming?
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