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Episode 4 Tail Spin

Episode 4 Tail Spin

One of the many ways that Cheetah Outreach is trying to save the wild African cheetah from extinction is by training cheetah cubs to meet members of the public and so be ambassadors for their own species. At the Cheetah Outreach cub rearing facility we join cub project leader Emily Morgan as she takes the cubs through their daily weigh in.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 5 Full House

Episode 5 Full House

It\'s time to see what’s happening over at the main Cheetah Outreach facility on Spier wine estate. The gloomy winter weather will not stop handler Christo Van Niekerk from taking on his new role as a trainer for Baggins the serval cat. Christo has taken over the training of Baggins from Liesl whilst she’s on holiday. Having behaved impeccably during the handover training Baggins now decides its time to show Christo who’s really in charge!

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 7 Crazy Like a House

Episode 7 Crazy Like a House

It\'s an exciting day for Cheetah Outreach despite the weather as today is the day that cub project leader Beryl Patterson will be taking to the main facility for the first time.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 8 Married with Childern

Episode 8 Married with Childern

This time we begin with a walk in the park as we join the cubs for adventure with Dawn Glover and former Cheetah Outreach staff member Andene Coombes are on their way to the airport to collect a Charlie, a cheetah who’s been away for over 4 years.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 9 Cheers

Episode 9 Cheers

This time we begin with the cubs who have mastered their walking skills and are now on the run. Our 4 ambassador cubs in training discovere the need for speed with their first run on the exercise lure.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 002

Episode 002

The African Penguin is fighting for survival. Well known wildlife presenter and conservation enthusiast Michaela Strachan is on a mission to help them. After 10 years living in her adopted home of Cape Town, South Africa, the peninsula’s penguins have found a special place in Michaela’s heart, which is why she is taking action and joining one of Africa’s Biggest Bird Rescues!

Duration : 25m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 003

Episode 003

The African Penguin is fighting for survival. Well known wildlife presenter and conservation enthusiast Michaela Strachan is on a mission to help them. After 10 years living in her adopted home of Cape Town, South Africa, the peninsula’s penguins have found a special place in Michaela’s heart, which is why she is taking action and joining one of Africa’s Biggest Bird Rescues!

Duration : 25m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 004

Episode 004

The African Penguin is fighting for survival. Well known wildlife presenter and conservation enthusiast Michaela Strachan is on a mission to help them. After 10 years living in her adopted home of Cape Town, South Africa, the peninsula’s penguins have found a special place in Michaela’s heart, which is why she is taking action and joining one of Africa’s Biggest Bird Rescues!

Duration : 26m
Maturity Level : all

Episode 005

Episode 005

The African Penguin is fighting for survival. Well known wildlife presenter and conservation enthusiast Michaela Strachan is on a mission to help them. After 10 years living in her adopted home of Cape Town, South Africa, the peninsula’s penguins have found a special place in Michaela’s heart, which is why she is taking action and joining one of Africa’s Biggest Bird Rescues!

Duration : 26m
Maturity Level : all

The Madrid Murders

The Madrid Murders

As animals across the world slide towards extinction, Dairen\'s work has become more urgent than ever, and this year he\'s set to travel into the wildest regions of Africa, in search of big cats, lion, leopard and cheetah. Each episode establishes a dilemma for the animal, which sets Dairen on his \'mission impossible.\' And the conditions don\'t come tougher, the setbacks more frustrating. His passion, commitment and perseverance, always combine for uniquely entertaining and gripping programming.

Duration : 53m
Maturity Level : all

Aquila

Aquila

Can wilderness be brought back to a land that has been overgrazed and farmed? A wilderness called the Karoo that was once extensive across south Africa and home to a rich diversity of for a and fauna. It also used to be home to the khoi and the san people the early hunter gatherers and pastoralists. For over two hundred years now much of the karoo lies fallow and destroyed. Aquila is the story of the attempt to restock and regrow a small part of the karoo and bring it back to its glory days

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Baboons

Baboons

The baboon human conflict in the western cape has taken an ugly turn with many of the cape peninsulas chacmas either being trapped and relocated or killed. People suffer tend of thousands of rands of loss when baboons come raiding their homes and baboons lose their life and freedom. I walk with baboons to find out what is causing this conflict and to look for solutions. Come meet the baboon troops of the cape peninsula

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Cheetahs

Cheetahs

Can captive bred ambassador cheetahs of the Cheetah Outreach in Cape Town help save their counterparts in the wild? The most endangered big cat in Africa , the cheetah is facing a countdown to extinction unless strong measures to protect it are put in place. Find out if the motto of Cheetah Outreach, See it, Sense it, Save it, can help the wild cheetah

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Elephants

Elephants

Can the African elephant ever be tamed? Is it possible to sustain an entire tourism industry based on them being domesticated? Is it right to do so and what does it do for elephant conservation in the wild? Come walk with the elephants of knysna park while I ask these questions

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Kelp Forest

Kelp Forest

Enter the underwater golden forests and walk the beaches between the intertidal zones as I discover the amazing but fast depleting bio diversity of the worlds wildest coastline in the cape of storms. Why is it crucial to protect this wilderness? What does it do for us? What can be done? Come with me on my wild walk as I seek answers to these questions

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Khwa ttu

Khwa ttu

Walk in the footsteps of the san, the early hunter gatherers of southern Africa. Come to !khwa ttu, to learn about their history an their culture. Meet young san or who are passionate about reclaiming their heritage and learn why they were the world’s first conservationists

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Leopards

Leopards

I walk with leopards. Walk with leopards as I travel 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? Meet the leopards who first taught me to understand and love them.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Lions Part 1

Lions Part 1

Come walk with Africa’s lions. Learn about the cruel practice of canned lion hunts and the people who are fighting to have it banned entirely.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Lions Part 2

Lions Part 2

More walking with Africa’s lions and the conservation issues that surround them. Are Africa’s lions endangered? Can their irreversible population decline be halted? Does Africa have space for its greatest land predator? All this and more

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Penguins

Penguins

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?

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Seals

Seals

A conservation success story, the Cape fur seal numbers are healthy. But this has paradoxically thrown up serious conservation issues from protecting endangered sea bird nesting sites, conflict with fishermen and seal culling

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Sharks

Sharks

Will the greatest predator on earth survive our exploitation of the ocean and the mass slaughter for their fins?

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Zoos

Zoos

What is the purpose of keeping animals in captivity? Conservation or entertainment? Find out as I tour different facilities for answers

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Basic Instincts

Basic Instincts

Because most babies’ basic needs are met by the mother, the babies have time to develop those skills needed for their survival. This learning process can either takes place through interaction with others, trial and error or basic instinct. These essential skills are often developed while playing and interacting with siblings and babies, which can also be a lot of fun.

Duration : 27m
Maturity Level : all