We are in a secret spot in China: Giant Panda Valley. Here, after many months of preparation, a group of pandas are about to be released into the wild, thanks to Eric Bairao Ruivo. He runs Beauval Nature – a foundation devoted to re-introducing rare or endangered species into the wild around the globe. As we follow Eric on his mission around the world, we get an insight into the work of the conservationist. His next stop: Gabon, the gorilla territory, where a one-of-a-kind project takes care of adapting gorilla youngsters, whose parents were killed by poachers or who were born in zoos, for joining their kin in the wild. Across the ocean in Argentina, Eric joins a dedicated team working on releasing Andean condors: the magnificent birds had disappeared from the region but are now back to the land where they have been venerated for millennia. However, Eric’s trickiest mission is yet to come: on the Indonesian island of Java. For the first time he will set free two magnificent Languor monkeys that grew up at Beauval Zoo – but will Samui and Indah know how to survive in the wild?
Wild dolphins in the Red Sea tolerate a group of scientists and filmmakers as if they were dolphins and allow to film behavior that has never been watched...
Many animals feel at home in our gardens. Some are very popular with garden owners, others should disappear as fast as possible – above all the mole. Its famous hills, the entrances to its basement apartment complete with sleeping kettle, pantry, and seemingly endlessly long corridors, adorn the ...
They’ve given up the wonderful art of flying. Or was it an art they never possessed? The brain structure and anatomy of flightless birds indicate that they descended from "flyers" – so, why don’t they fly? Often weighing around 200 kg, over 2 meters tall, and capable of reaching speeds of 70 km /...
