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This is Guelta d'Archei
in Central Africa.
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A hostile, seemingly empty world.
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There is life here.
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But it exists at the
very limits of survival.
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For this is a world
with almost no water.
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Lands like these cover
over a third of our planet.
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Here, life is forced
to do things differently.
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This is the most
ancient desert of all.
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The Namib - in south west Africa.
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It is one of the
hottest places on Earth.
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Yet this male ostrich and his mate
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have come here to start a family.
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Few predators venture
out during the heat of day.
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But such safety comes at a price.
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Out in the open, the
newly-hatched chicks are exposed
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to the crushing heat of the sun.
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But not all of
the brood have hatched.
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Until they do, the
family will stay here.
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The adults take it in
turns to protect the brood.
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So whilst the female
takes a well-earned break,
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the male takes over for
the most testing shift.
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He gently rolls
the unhatched eggs...
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..calling to the young within them.
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He doesn't want to
leave anyone behind.
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The temperature continues to rise
by five degrees Celsius every hour.
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He protects the chicks
that have emerged...
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..shading them with his own body.
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At the end of another
gruelling day in the sun...
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..he's lost almost all his energy.
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But he must resist the urge to rest.
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The cool of the
night brings some relief...
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..but now predators
are out and about.
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It's going to be a long night.
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Dawn brings a surprise.
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Three additions to the family...
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..to greet the returning female.
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But there's a problem.
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The chicks won't survive another
day in these temperatures.
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Yet the male is reluctant to leave.
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Some of the eggs
have still not hatched.
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But time has run out.
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They must depart.
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Just a few minutes too late.
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Alone and without the
protection of its parents,
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this hatchling's chances are slim.
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Survival here, as in all deserts,
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is on a knife edge.
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So desert dwellers have had
to evolve in remarkable ways.
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Some have even given rise to
legends of dragons and unicorns.
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And even the dunes have
their own magical quality.
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Indeed some have their own voice.
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Here in Arabia,
this extraordinary sound
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is created by billions
of moving sand grains
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vibrating against one another.
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The eerie song they produce
can be heard for miles
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across the world's
biggest sand desert.
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Winds have also built
sand into surreal shapes.
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Deserts around the
world can appear so alien,
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that they seem to belong
to another planet altogether.
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Few more so than here in Australia.
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Yet one little creature
chooses this desert
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to prepare for a most
important event in its life.
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A male spotted bowerbird.
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For the last two months,
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he has been busy in
anticipation of brief rains...
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That is when females
will look for a mate.
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So he's built a bower,
a sort of theatre,
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a stage on which he will dance
with a female, if she is willing.
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He decorates the entrance with piles
of empty snail shells and bones.
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How could any female resist?
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The rains are due any day,
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so it's his last
chance for improvements.
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You can never have too many shells.
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But in his absence...
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..a rival male drops by,
to size up the competition...
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..and cause trouble.
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Wreck your neighbour's bower
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and your own might look better.
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And perhaps one of the best bits
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would look good in his bower.
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The owner is back.
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And something isn't right.
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Repairs are needed.
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Still no sign of rain or females.
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Undeterred, he continues
his preparations.
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Time to rehearse
his courtship display.
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But sadly he may
only ever dance alone.
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For the last three years,
the rains have failed.
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Without them,
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the females won't mate.
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They need the rains to provide
food for their family.
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Changes in the climate
are affecting these birds,
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just as they are affecting us.
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A quarter of the world's
people live in arid lands.
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So we, too, have to deal
with climate change.
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Less rainfall and extended
droughts allow deserts to grow.
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And as they do,
so does the likelihood
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of one of nature's
most intimidating events.
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A dust storm.
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A wall of dust up to a mile high,
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travelling at almost 70mph.
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Today these destructive storms are
some of the most powerful ever seen.
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Unstoppable, they can
travel thousands of miles...
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..overwhelming towns and
cities across the world...
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..in an instant.
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It takes millennia for life to
adapt to the extremes of deserts.
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These baboons manage to survive
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in one of the driest
environments on Earth.
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The Erongo region in Namibia.
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Not a single drop of rain has
fallen here for eight months.
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Life here for these
baboons is as hard as it gets.
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And it's especially difficult
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for this young female.
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She has just given
birth to her first baby.
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She's desperate for water.
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Without it, she can't produce milk.
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The tiny of amount of
moisture in her food
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is simply not enough
for both of them.
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The troop must constantly
search for water.
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And they won't wait for her.
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At last, one of the troop's scouts
finds a tiny trickle on a rock face.
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Relief!
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But not for everyone.
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The young mother will have to wait.
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Access to the precious
water is determined by rank.
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She is so low in
the pecking order...
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..she might fail to
get any drink at all.
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Because jumping the queue
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is severely punished.
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It's risky, but she
can't wait any longer.
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A dangerous move.
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But there's no match for
a mother's determination.
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This will be enough to keep her
and her baby alive until rain falls.
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Rain brings salvation not
just to her and the troop,
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but to the thirsty land.
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When it does fall,
it can transform a desert.
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And turn it into one of
Earth's most productive landscapes.
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Grasslands.
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They support the greatest
concentrations of large animals
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to be found anywhere on the planet.
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Here nature is at
its most spectacular.
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This leopardess, believe it or not,
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is ready to hunt at
a moment's notice.
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She is one of the few
special leopards that have
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learnt to hide in the tree tops,
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and wait for their
prey to come to them.
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Without making a sound,
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she gets into position.
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Not this time.
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And now her
presence is known to all.
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But leopards will go to
astonishing lengths to succeed.
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And some are more
daring than others.
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This leopard climbs up to a
branch nine metres above the ground.
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She's higher than the
roof of a two-storey house.
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Leopards have killed themselves
jumping from these heights.
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To succeed on these
equatorial grasslands,
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you must be adaptable
and sometimes brave.
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The Eurasian Steppe,
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the largest grassland on earth.
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It tests animals in a different way.
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Here, the wind can blow
at speeds of nearly 80mph.
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And temperatures drop to
below minus 30 degrees Celsius.
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Yet one bizarre creature has evolved
ways to survive in these extremes.
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Saiga antelope.
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Small but tough animals that lived
alongside woolly mammoths.
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The male's enormous nose
both filters out the dust
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and warms up the cold air
before it reaches his lungs.
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But at this time of year, it also
serves a very different purpose.
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It impresses the females.
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And the bigger it is, the better.
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This old male knows what it
takes to hold their attention.
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But they make him work for it.
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And if that isn't effective...
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..he has other ways
of impressing them.
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A bush - very majestic.
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But when you are king of the steppe,
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there's always someone
waiting to claim your crown.
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This young buck fancies his chances.
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He aims to steal the king's harem.
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The challenger charges,
ready to do battle.
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This could be a fight to the death.
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70% of rutting males will die.
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The older male eventually
begins to gain the upper hand.
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And with one final effort,
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he drives the young rival away.
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The king has kept his crown -
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and his harem.
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Only the strongest saigas
can endure and succeed
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in one of the harshest
places on Earth.
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But close to the equator, where
there is constant warmth and water,
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there are grasslands
close to paradise.
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This is the most bio-diverse
grassland in the world...
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..the Cerrado in Brazil.
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Here there are thousands of
species of both animals and plants
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found nowhere else.
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A rich and complex community
that is kept in balance
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by this ghostly creature.
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A maned wolf.
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Quiet and shy, it's
little known and seldom seen.
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Unlike any other wolf in the world,
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their diet is mostly vegetarian.
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And they particularly
like lobeira fruit.
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This plant increases
the fertility of the land,
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and helps to sustain
the entire Cerrado.
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The maned wolves,
odd though it may seem,
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are, in effect, the gardeners
of these unique plains.
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The dense grass in
turn provides this female
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with a comfortable home...
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..and somewhere to
hide her three puppies,
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just one month old.
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She is so rare that she's
been fitted with a radio-collar
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so that scientists can
study her continuously.
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And our remotely controlled
"den camera" reveals a mother
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only comes here for a few
hours a day to suckle her pups.
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She spends much of her time foraging
to provide for her growing family.
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Now, alone in the den,
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her puppies are suddenly in danger.
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Not from other predators...
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..but from fire.
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Their home is being
burnt all around them.
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These fires can race
through a mile of grassland
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in a matter of minutes.
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The Cerrado devastated.
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Why?
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In order to clear
land to grow crops.
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This particular fire
didn't reach their den.
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But it's empty.
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This time, the family were lucky.
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But her species faces an
alarmingly uncertain future.
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At the current rate
of habitat destruction,
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these may be some of the last
maned wolves to survive in the wild.
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In grasslands,
the land and the animals
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are so closely interconnected,
that the loss of one key species
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could well trigger the collapse
of the entire ecosystem.
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That's what happened
here in central Africa,
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when 95% of the elephant population
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were killed for their ivory.
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Without these essential gardeners -
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life couldn't flourish.
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This male is one
of the few survivors.
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He still bears the scars
from his persecuted past.
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But the slaughter
was stopped just in time.
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With an end to poaching,
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this male is part of a growing
herd that now lives in safety.
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Today, it's thought this is
one of the largest groups
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of African elephants
surviving in the wild.
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As they recovered their numbers,
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their grazing encouraged a
healthy growth of new grasses.
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And they created
space for other animals...
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..bringing life back to Zakouma.
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This miraculous transformation
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shows what can happen
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if nature is allowed
to restore its own balance.
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Abakar is part of the team of local
rangers who risked their lives
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to protect these elephants.
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And the elephants
didn't just heal the land.
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They did something
no-one had anticipated.
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As we understand more
about the wonders,
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the connections and the
fragility of these landscapes...
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..the consequences of our
actions are thrown into sharp focus.
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They show we urgently need to do
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everything we can to
help nature heal itself.
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To film maned wolves,
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the Planet Earth crew joined
pioneering scientists in Brazil.
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If you get a direction, Bela,
please let me know.
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Yeah, she's like three o'clock
from the car here.
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Like 800 metres, too.
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Without their help the wolves
are almost impossible to track,
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let alone film,
in the dense grass of the Cerrado.
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It's so hard to find them,
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they're sort of solitary
animals in a huge grassland
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with sort of metre high grass,
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which is the same
height as the wolf.
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And it's like looking for a
needle in a haystack currently.
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Shall we turn the car around,
if she's going to head that way?
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Yeah, maybe.
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The researchers have radio
collared two female wolves.
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Both have puppies.
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They hope to track one to a den
and set up remote cameras inside.
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The footage would provide the
researchers with crucial information
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and help to protect
this endangered species.
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She's in here somewhere.
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Maned wolf, they're so special.
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It's very important to
understand more of this species.
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When we get more knowledge,
its getting easier to protect them.
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But the signal from
one of the females
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takes them in a worrying direction.
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So it's led us directly into
this huge epic scale farmland,
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the likes of which, to be honest,
I've never seen before.
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And it shows you what little is
left of their natural habitat.
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50% of maned wolf habitat
has been lost to farmland.
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And the radio collars show
they now regularly stray
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into this unfamiliar landscape.
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Tragically, the researchers
discover the body
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of one collared mother wolf
on farmland.
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The cause of her death unknown.
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Her puppies won't
survive alone for long.
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Without delay, the
researchers set out to find them.
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They rescue five,
one-month-old pups,
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hidden in the long grass.
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To assess their condition,
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the pups are taken to
an emergency rescue facility.
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They will be cared
for around the clock,
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until they are strong enough to
be released back into the wild.
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Their mothers death is
a huge blow for everyone.
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For the crew, the only
chance of filming in a den
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now lies with one remaining
collared female known as Nhorinha.
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She's more here to the right.
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Is that her there? No.
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Yep, I can see her,
she's there. She's here.
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Yeah, got her, got her, got her.
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She's coming towards
two o'clock now.
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50 metres away from the car.
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She's coming behind this tree
in the middle here, let's wait.
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I've got her, I've got her. OK.
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Eventually the team capture the
first images of Nhorinha on camera.
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To finally see our wolf is amazing.
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Using a drone camera,
they follow her to her den.
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The drone reveals the first
glimpse of Nhorinha's puppies.
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Oh, my God.
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And she's moving them...
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..something that's never
been witnessed before.
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This is very special,
my heart stopped there, like...
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I can't believe what
I'm really seeing here.
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We know where the den is now.
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The following morning,
they return to the den site.
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They want to rig their cameras,
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but can only approach when they
know Nhorinha is not at the den.
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Is she nearby?
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No, no signal yet.
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Nhorinha is out of
here, at least 1km.
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So it's very good news for us.
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Let's try to approach it.
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Barbara checks that
Nhorinha is away from the den,
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so the team can go
in without disturbing her.
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Very good.
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The den isn't immediately obvious,
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but the grass here is flattened,
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so they place their cameras
and hope for the best.
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We're about 80m from the den.
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This is as close as
we can be safely.
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This is the moment of truth,
we're turning them on.
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And we're live,
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and the camera hasn't moved.
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Luke keeps watch over the cameras,
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while the team continue to
monitor Nhorinha's movements.
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Before long,
they are stopped in their tracks.
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Just see this huge plume
of smoke in the distance,
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you know, directly behind the
den where our mother maned wolf
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has been with her puppies.
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I'm quite anxious. I'm sure the
other researchers are as well.
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And the fire may well have
been started by farmers,
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in order to clear land to grow crops
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that will be used to feed
chicken and cattle around the world.
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The heat from the fire
when we're working that close
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is so intense that I can feel
it burning the skin on my arms.
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It moves so fast, there's no way
you'd escape something like that.
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Every single cell in your body
just wants to get out of there.
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But actually this whole place,
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this whole Cerrado, is
surrounded by farmland and roads,
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so, actually, when you
really think about it,
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the wildlife has nowhere to run.
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After a difficult few weeks for
Barbara and the research team...
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Hello, how you doing?
How was it? It was good.
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The crew have some
good news for them.
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Oh, track, there's one right there.
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Right now. Yeah.
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Can you see? That's live?
Yeah, yeah, that's live.
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Oh!
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Oh, my God!
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I've never see anything
so cute in my entire life.
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No! Me neither. Me neither, guys.
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Look at this! Look,
it's looking at the camera.
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Unbelievable.
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That's the first
record in the world,
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so intimate inside the den.
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Nobody ever saw this.
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Such new information
of such important species.
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You feeling emotional, Barbara?
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It's difficult not to be.
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I don't have words to describe it.
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It's too much for me.
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The cameras continue to gather
first-of-its-kind footage,
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providing insight into the
all-important first weeks
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of a maned wolf's life.
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And, crucially, how much
space must be protected
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to support future generations.
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I really hope that every
person in the world could see
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from their house, how special,
and how beautiful,
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amazing these animals are.
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I feel quite worried,
but not hopeless.
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I will fight every day
and every year to help them.
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I was born in Cerrado,
I grew up in Cerrado,
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and Cerrado, it's my home,
I have to protect it.
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Next time...
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