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Africa.

In the four years of making this series,
we've been to some astonishing places and

seen animals behaving in ways that have
never been filmed before.

But Africa has another story to tell.

The wildlife of this continent
has seen more changes

in the last 50 years than
it has in the last 2 million.

Changing landscapes and changing climate.

Today's animals are facing unprecedented
challenges.

While surround them,
Africa's human population

is growing at nearly
double the global rate.

There is an increasing
urgency to understand and,

crucially, to conserve the
wildlife of this great continent.

Today, there is a new generation of
naturalists and scientists who are

fighting to save the wild places and the
animals that live in them.

This is the greatest wildlife continent on
the planet.

And what happens here is relevant to us
all.

So what is the future of wild Africa?

This animal has become the world's number
one target for poachers.

Its kind has been hunted almost to the
point of extinction.

It's now so rare that this individual is
watched over day and night.

This is a wild animal.

Here we have the black rhinos.

And black rhinos are notorious of being
rather grumpy and suddenly charging.

But he is in great danger because he has
on his nose that horn,

which is worth its weight in gold.

The demand for rhino horn has rocketed.

There has been a 3,000% increase in
poaching just in the last five years.

Today, powdered rhino horn can fetch up to
$65,000 a kilo.

Rhinos are a lucrative target for
organized crime.

In Chinese medicine, it's believed that
rhino horn can reduce fever, and some

Vietnamese sell it as a cure for
everything, from cancer to hangovers.

It's made of keratin, the
same substance as hair and

nail, and it has no clinically
proven medicinal value.

But it has made every black rhino in
Africa a target.

They've all been killed
in Uganda, Rwanda, and

there are only around
600 left here in Kenya.

But these are not poachers.

These are protectors.

And that protection is overseen
by rhino expert Dr. Matthew

Mutrinder, one of the Kenya
Wildlife Service's top vets.

Black rhinos are critically endangered.

And that is what here at Lewa Wildlife
Conservancy we're trying to do.

Save the animal, provide a safe and secure
sanctuary where the animal can breed,

can live freely.

There aren't many true wild rhinos left in
Africa.

Most, like these in Lewa Wildlife
Conservancy, are under armed guard.

This young female has reached the age when
Matthew must do some health checks,

including taking blood samples.

This will help deter poachers and
traffickers, as DNA in illegally traded

rhino horn can be tracked back to its
origin.

If you have to do anaesthesia in the wild,
you will expect some degree of risk.

This female has reacted badly to the
anaesthetic.

She's not breathing.

It's a rare and extremely serious
situation.

He knows that the next few minutes are
crucial.

And when an animal is this
big, there's only one way to

get the heart going again
when you're out in the bush.

Thanks to Matthew's quick thinking,
they can hear that she is breathing again.

They've got to get her back on her feet.

Not surprisingly, she's disorientated.

Sometimes she can barely hear.

Mission accomplished.

It's been an ordeal,
but now this rhino can be

trapped and protected
for the rest of her life.

Within minutes, she's grazing peacefully
again with her mother.

It may seem heartless
to treat an animal like that,

but we have to keep tabs
on them They're not all black.

We can't be in a room and be able to
identify individuals.

They are in great danger.

Even now, on average, one rhino is killed
by poachers every day in Africa.

There are so few
black rhino left in Kenya

that we are getting to
know each individual.

But this is still the creature that can
surprise us.

Previously, it was
widely believed that

black rhinos were
largely solitary creatures.

Here, in the Kalahari, a
starlight camera reveals

that they may be much more
sociable than many thought.

This waterhole gathering is an enchanting
window into the past.

Early explorers reported seeing a rhino
behind every bush.

Before the invention of
the gull, there were probably

hundreds of thousands of
rhinos across the continent.

The people protecting rhinos in Africa are
striving to ensure that we'll still be

able to witness wonderful scenes like this
in 50 years' time.

Right across Africa,
conservationists have realized that

if we want to save our big
animals, then now is the time.

The human population of the world on the
continent has just succeeded one billion.

And many wild animals are being hunted
commercially for food.

Some legally, and many illegally.

Wildlife meat is often sold as goat or
beef.

The amount is astonishing.

Millions of tons are eaten across Africa
every year.

At this rate, some species are almost
certainly heading for extinction.

But commercial hunting is not just
affecting the praises.

As the prey decreases, it's affecting the
predators, too.

Fifty years ago, there were about half a
million lions in Africa.

Today, there are less than 30,000.

But in one particular
part of Africa, things

are improving in a
quite extraordinary way.

These hunters have become part of the
world.

A new and unlikely alliance.

In recent years, hungry lions have
increasingly been killing livestock.

One group of traditional Maasai have
reacted in a very untraditional way.

The Maasai are cattle herders who don't
eat wild animals.

But when lions attack their herds,
they've always retaliated.

Maasai and lions are ancient adversaries.

A lion hunt is still a rite of passage for
young Maasai warriors like Alubi Larumbi.

For me, and any
Maasai, killing a lion is the

ultimate fulfilment of a
truly accomplished Maasai.

Nothing compares to that.

There is nobody who knows more about living
alongside lions than the Maasai themselves.

I met Alubi and some of the
other warriors in his village

to find out about their
relationship with the local pride.

How many lions are there around here?

Around here, there are about a hundred.

So they all have names?

What are they called?

Every single lion has a name.

A Maasai name.

And when you see a lion, do you know how
it's going to behave?

It depends on the lion.

For a Maasai warrior, lions are nothing to
be scared of.

If I saw a lion, the lion would like to
attack me.

Only if you threaten it.

Well, I hope the next lion knows that.

Alubi killed his first lion when he was
just 17, after it attacked his cattle.

Unfortunately, the lion turned out to be
pregnant.

And that led to a remarkable turnaround.

The Maasai respect all living things.

And I began to feel guilty about the lion
that I had killed.

In the end, I came to admire the lions.

Alubi had a dramatic change of heart.

He turned his back on hundreds of years of
Maasai tradition.

Along with some other warriors,
Alubi became a lion guardian.

Instead of hunting lions, Alubi would be
protecting them.

He teamed up with Stephanie Dahlrenmi,
who helped pioneer the project.

Just by respecting their
traditions and also bringing

their ecological knowledge,
it's been hugely successful.

They know their areas.

They know how to track lions.

They've been doing it for generation after
generation.

They know how to track them.

They know how to hunt them.

They know how to find them.

This is only a small-scale project.

But with lion numbers as low as they are,
they need all the help they can get.

Alubi is tracking radio-collared lions.

He's able to warn villagers to move their
cattle when the pride is in the area.

And so they're avoiding conflict.

No lions have been killed in the immediate
area since the project began.

By combining science, both
ancient and contemporary,

they're beginning to
make a real difference.

There's so much to be learned.

I feel I bring in modern technology and
modern knowledge.

And in return, they teach
us about the environment

and how things have
changed in their environment.

And it's a...

really neat exchange.

You can't say the biologists are the
teachers or the guardians are the teachers.

We're both teachers and we're both
students.

And I think that blend is amazing.

Critically, at the heart
of this project is the

huge attitude change
by these Maasai warriors.

An animal that was once their sworn enemy,
they now protect.

And their willingness to share knowledge
with other communities means that projects

like this could be repeated in other parts
of Africa.

Traditionally, when a warrior killed a
lion, he took the name of the lion.

Now it's the other way around.

Now the lion takes the name of the warrior
who protects it.

The scheme is a huge success.

There are about 100 lions involved in the
scheme in this neighborhood.

This is 21st century conservation in
Africa.

This is the first time a lion has ever
been in action.

Perhaps the biggest threat
to wildlife is the competition

for space with a rapidly
growing human population.

The Virunga volcanoes
straddle the borders of

Rwanda, Uganda and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.

The rich volcanic soils are extremely
fertile.

It's one of the most intensively
cultivated areas in Africa.

But the farmers also share this region
with one of our closest relatives.

This is home to the last 800 or so wild
mountain gorillas left on Earth.

We know a great deal about these animals.

They've been closely studied for 50 years.

One strong silverback male keeps everyone
in order.

And gorilla family life is mostly
peaceful.

Until a few generations ago,
mountain gorillas, hidden in the

seclusion of their forests, were
seldom seen by human beings.

But their habitat was steadily being
carved away.

And now these gorillas are marooned on the
volcanic slopes in a sea of farmland.

The fact that gorillas now regularly come
into contact with people not only means an

increased threat of poaching, but also of
disease.

Gorillas have little or no resistance to
the bugs that we carry.

Numbers here once dropped to around 250.

They were facing extinction.

Action had to be taken.

The boundaries of the
national park were strictly

enforced, halting the
encroachment of farmland.

And it was decided
that the only solution was

to intensively manage
the remaining gorillas.

Teams of scientists constantly monitor
them.

Their forests are patrolled to cut
potters' snares.

And vets watch their health closely.

This is funded mostly through ecotourism
and donations from all over the world.

Mountain gorillas are now back from the
brink.

This level of human intervention might not
be ideal, but it's working.

Every year, there are
a few more mountain

gorillas, and possibly
just a little more optimism.

Intensive management
within a protected area may

represent the only future
for many African species.

But for some animals, that is simply not
possible.

What happens if the animal you're trying
to protect is not suited to park life?

Elephants require vast amounts of space to
roam.

They have a range of up to 1,300 square
miles.

Given the chance, they will even move
between countries in search of the best

food, particularly if conditions get
rough.

This was the scene in Amboseli National
Park in 2009.

The park is home to
nearly 1,500 elephants, and

this was the worst
drought for half a century.

60% of zebras and 95% of wildebeest were
wiped out.

The seasonal rains had
failed for the last two years,

and the elephants that lived
here were slowly starving.

The park created to protect them is now
surrounded by farmland.

The elephants had little choice of where
else to go.

Caught up in this catastrophe were three
sisters.

They are the front line for elephant
protection in the park.

And they know these animals better than
anyone else.

Nora Nicarini and Katito and Soyla Sayela.

All the elephants have been given names.

They are a family to us.

Hello, Anastasia.

The sisters have been following these
elephants for over 25 years, trying to

ensure their safety, particularly at times
when life is tough for these animals.

It really was terrible.

There was nothing actually to feed on.

Even when I asked the old Maasai men
whether they have ever experienced such a

drought, the only time it was close to
what was there was in 1961.

In 2009, we lost quite a number of
elephants.

I think we lost about 400 elephants.

And it started with the young ones.

Elephants usually escape drought by moving
into other less affected areas.

But Africa's human population is growing
at double the global rate.

And traditional migration routes have been
cut by the developments of towns,

cities, farmland and roads, leaving these
elephants stuck.

This young calf is starving.

And there is nothing they can do to help.

For the sisters, who know each elephant
personally, this is a terrible moment.

It is something that we feel in our
hearts.

You can imagine the kind of
feelings that we get, you know,

knowing those elephants and
seeing something like that happen.

It really touches us.

It was a tough year for all the young
elephants in the region.

We lost them.

All the cows were born that year.

All of them, we lost them.

There was nothing the sisters could do to
save the baby.

But they were determined
to save any elephants they

could, especially mothers
who could breed again.

They found this female stuck in the mud,
exhausted, in a dried-up lake bed.

They left her there.

The elephants that got stuck in the mud
were called Lida.

Poor thing, you know, she was there for
quite a long time.

A masai reported to us,
and we had to combine

efforts with the Kenyan
Wildlife Services people.

Weighing about three tons, Kualida is just
too heavy to shift by hand.

She's weakening fast.

So the next morning, heavy machinery is
brought in.

Let's go, let's go!

After two days stuck in the mud,
Kualida is exhausted.

But she's up on her feet again.

The rains did return to Amboseli.

And thanks in part to the
work of the dedicated three

women, elephant numbers
are now beginning to rise again.

There's no doubt that this was an
extremely severe event.

But is it an isolated incident or a
developing pattern?

I think with the global warming,
we actually don't know what's going to

happen, but we just have to cross fingers
and hope for a better future.

We'll see.

Given the opportunity, the numbers of
elephants in East Africa will recover,

especially if they're
given the freedom to range

widely and so avoid
the harshest conditions.

One solution to help elephants
find the space they need is

to link parks together and
provide safe routes between them.

Elephants are great travellers.

And here in this part of Kenya,
they regularly moved from the lowlands up

the sides of the mountains to feed in the
forests up there.

But then the human population of Kenya
grew.

And roads like this one were constructed,
penning the elephants down in the lowland,

where they created havoc amongst the
farms.

Not only that, there were dangers of
collisions on the road.

And then someone suggested building an
underpass.

Within 24 hours of it being completed,
one elephant had passed through,

and now all the elephants use that route to
go up the mountain, off at night, to feed.

Simple ideas like this
underpass are a lifeline for

these elephants, especially
in times of drought.

Africa's climate is certainly changing.

Some parts of the continent have become
three and a half degrees warmer and 30

degrees centigrade hotter in the past 20
years.

At the summit of Africa's most
famous mountain, Kilimanjaro,

80% of its permanent ice
fields have disappeared.

Soon, it will be free of ice altogether.

All over Africa, the
mountainous regions are

often the first indicators
of climate change.

Here in the Ethiopian highlands live very
unusual-looking creatures.

Gelada baboons.

Climate change refugees.

Although this region of Ethiopia lies in
the tropics, up at 4,000 metres,

it doesn't feel like it.

Unlike most African animals, geladas are
adapted to the climate.

Geladas are adapted to life in the cold.

They used to be one of
Africa's most successful

primates, found all
over the continent.

At one stage, there were six different
species.

Now, there is only one.

With the warming climate, their grazing is
becoming more and more scarce,

restricted to cooler and higher places.

These geladas are being forced higher into
the mountains.

Soon, there will be nowhere left to go.

This is a species living on the edge.

Even though they're
isolated on the mountain

tops, they're not
immune to our influence.

As a result of changing
climate, these gelada

baboons may soon be
gone from our planet.

Gelada baboons.

Africa is the world's hottest continent.

And there is no doubt it's getting warmer.

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in
the world.

Very little can survive in these harsh
conditions.

Along the desert edge, life clings on in
the face of encroaching sands.

But for how long?

Alongside the wildlife,
22 million people

struggle to make a living
on these desert margins.

Can anything be done to stop the sand
overwhelming this fragile land?

One idea is to build a green wall of trees
across 11 countries.

The project has already started in
Senegal.

But like all big ideas, it has big
problems.

Getting 11 countries to work together is
not easy.

And simply irrigating a 5,000 mile long
belt of trees is an ambitious task.

But all over Africa, people
are recognising how important

it is to have trees as part
of their local landscape.

This group of volunteers has planted
nearly 100 million saplings.

And they are just one of countless similar
groups and individuals taking it upon

themselves to reforest their own part of
this great continent.

Trees are essential
for the future of the

continent and indeed
to the rest of the planet.

This is the Congo Basin.

It's one of the most biologically
important forests on Earth.

And it's not just because
of the concentration

of plants and
animals that live here.

It's because it's also
one of the powerhouses

behind the planet's
wind and rain.

Each hectare of trees releases as vapour
almost 190,000 litres of water.

This water passes into the atmosphere to
be transported around the entire globe.

That means the heart of the world's
weather lies in tropical forests.

Unfortunately, there's an
almost insatiable demand in

Europe and China for
hardwood from these very forests.

And that is having an enormous impact.

As a result of this, as more tropical
forest is felled, some scientists are

seeing a correlation with changing storm
patterns across Europe and America.

And it's likely to become more extreme.

Staggeringly, 50% of the Congo Basin
forest has been allocated for logging.

The future of Africa's forest has never
been more critical for us all.

But the consequences of global warming
aren't limited to the land.

Africa is almost completely surrounded by
oceans.

Here on the East Coast,
there are animals feeding

the changing climate
in a most surprising way.

This is a young female green turtle.

During her lifetime,
she'll travel thousands

of miles through the
ocean looking for food.

Turtles return to the same beach from
which they hatched to lay their own eggs.

The eggs are buried
in the sand and the

hatchlings will emerge
after about two months.

But there's a strange thing about turtle
eggs.

And that is the temperature
at which the eggs are

kept will determine the
sex of most of the hatchlings.

If the sand temperature is high,
they will be female.

If it's low, they will be male.

So global warming could have a crucial
effect on turtle populations.

And this young female
may find it very difficult

in years to come to find
a male with which to mate.

But a local conservation
group recognised that the

odds are stacking up
against these little turtles.

There's not much they can do about climate
change.

But they have got together with the local
fishermen to try and improve the turtles'

chances of survival.

Every turtle counts.

So each time one is found injured or
accidentally caught in the nets,

it's brought to Kahindi Changawa and his
team.

So we began with only 16 fishermen
altogether in 1998.

Now we have hundreds of fishermen working
with us.

Grazing by turtles is essential for the
health of the beds of seagrass.

And these are the home of shrimps and
lobsters.

And that, of course, helps fishermen too.

The project has a turtle rehabilitation
centre.

And for the last two years, it's become
home to Shella.

She had an accident with a boat.

It was hit from behind.

She lost three ribs.

And her spine was as well damaged.

She's now in the process of healing back
together.

Shella's injuries have affected her
buoyancy.

She's healed well.

And to encourage her to
exercise her flippers properly,

she has every day a
little trip to the seaside.

So we usually take Shella for a sea bath
on a daily basis.

And the reason why
we're doing that, we're

trying to give her enough
room to get exercises.

And she gets an opportunity to eat her
natural food.

We believe that keeps her fit.

And the other thing is, she gets to use
her rear flippers quite often.

For Kehinde, it's one of the rewards for
all his hard work.

It's really, really enjoyable.

Very few people have the privilege like I
do, swimming with the turtles,

and having that fun.

I do enjoy what I'm doing.

Shella certainly did get stronger.

But the hope that some day she might swim
out in the open was not to be fulfilled.

Unaccountably, she became weaker and
eventually died.

This kind of work, will inevitably have
setbacks.

But there are always new turtles to be
cared for.

Is she healthy?

Yeah, this one is healthy.

I mean, she has a few bruises.

Could be from the fishing gear.

Like these ones here.

Oh, yeah.

But otherwise, healthy?

Otherwise, the turtle itself is really
healthy.

Shall we have a go?

Yeah.

Since 1998, until now, we've released over
8,200 turtles.

It makes me feel proud and privileged.

We've done lots of work with
the community and changing

their attitudes and their
behaviours and everything.

So I guess our job as an organisation is
really successful.

A young turtle like that could lay six or
seven thousand eggs in her lifetime.

So the survival of just one could have
huge consequences.

Saving just one individual requires huge
effort.

And of course, saving a species requires
even more.

But these heroic efforts are only ever
going to be a partial solution.

Every individual animal is part of a much
bigger story.

Part of an interconnected web of plants,
animals and the landscape itself.

That make up an entire ecosystem.

Saving ecosystems is the key to Africa's
wild future.

Gorongoza in Mozambique is a modern-day
Jurassic park.

It's ruled by some of the world's biggest
crocodiles.

Some of these monsters are six metres long
and close to 50 years old.

Somehow, they managed
to escape a civil war lasting

nearly 20 years, which
swept through Gorongoza.

95% of all the other large animals were
wiped out.

But 50 years ago, the scene was very
different.

This was a thriving tourist attraction,
a wild paradise.

Visitors flocked from
around the world, drawn

by the vast range and
abundance of the wildlife.

The most popular spot
for tourists was an old

restaurant, a lookout
post for the local lions.

The restaurant has long gone.

Along with the lions.

Gorongoza looked empty and beyond rescue.

But not to everyone.

A brave and ambitious
project began to try and

restore the park to its former
richness and splendour.

The first stage is to
find out which animals,

as well as crocodiles,
are still here.

So the team is mapping and counting all
the big animals they see in the park.

But it soon became clear that these big
animals were only part of the story.

Perhaps even more important might be the
little ones hidden underfoot.

It's understanding these
creatures that is attracting

some of the best minds
in the scientific world.

You're going to show me something?

Yeah, something new.

Professor Ed Wilson is a world expert on
biodiversity.

And at a mere 83, he's still pursuing his
passion.

Ants.

You see there's a bigness of up in there.

Wow.

Let me just get one specimen.

If you look down, at your feet, you
may see them walking by here and there.

An ant, a little beetle.

What I like to call the little things that
run the earth.

It's the rich diversity
of insect life here that

gives Gone and Goes
the prospect of a future.

These creatures form the basis of life in
the park.

This is so much fun.

These little invertebrate creatures.

The creatures that do most of the work,
turn most of the energy, save most of the

material, and allow us to reinsert big
animals with some confidence.

Have you got it in the vial yet?

Yeah, I've got three of them.

Oh, good.

Professor Wilson was one of the first
scientists to explore this area,

together with local wildlife biologist
Tonga Torchita.

That's a good one.

If you could gather them all together,
haul up all these little invertebrate

creatures, and weigh them, they would
weigh far more than all of the big animals

put together, even in a fully restored
park.

It's these little creatures, together with
the plants and trees, that still make this

place a viable option for reintroducing
bigger animals.

I can't be sure that's
a new species, but you

know, this is the kind
of thing that might be.

This park, came that close to vanishing.

And I'm happy to report it is coming back.

And this is one of the great stories.

It's inspirational, I think, and it's a
fine shining example of what to do with

all our parks, even those that have been
damaged by human activity.

But there's another reason
why Gorongosa is important

for the future of Africa,
and perhaps for us all.

So it is here, in this park, that people
come to see, not just the big animals that

thrill us, but they
will see Earth as it

looked and felt before
the coming of humanity.

Saving big animals is important,
but to do that with any real success,

we have to start
understanding and preserving

the plants and insects
that support an ecosystem.

It's this that will allow the larger
animals to thrive.

Gorongosa is a real success story.

The government and the
management team have pledged

themselves to a plan to
restore the land to what it was.

While it can never be exactly
the same as it was before

the war, it can still become
a rich and thriving ecosystem.

The scale of the challenge across Africa
is enormous.

After all, it's a huge continent.

The United Kingdom, China, the United
States of America, India, Japan,

and most of the rest of Europe would all
fit within its borders.

Africa still retains 45% of the Earth's
uncultivated land.

It's still the greatest wilderness on
Earth.

And that is why it's important.

Human beings have lived alongside wildlife
here longer than anywhere else.

But now, in the 21st century, animal
numbers are at a critical level.

Like it or not, this
generation is responsible

for handing on the
world's wildlife to the next.

Come on, come here.

That means taking care of
the animals and lands where

they live, so there is still
space for us all to coexist.

Nobody knows what the future has in store
for this little calf, or indeed how the

changes that inevitably are
going to take place in Africa

will affect the rest of the
world and this little animal.

But one thing is certain.

What happens here is more important than
it has ever been.

And that the relationship of the rest of
the world to this great continent and the

creatures that live in it is more
important than ever before.

On whichever part of the planet we live,
we all have a part to play.

In what sort of future this wild continent
has.

Africa,

the final shoot.

It's one of our most
ambitious trips, with lots of

locations to visit and many
technical hurdles to overcome.

Five take one.

To the west, a vast rainforest the size of
India.

Helicopters enable us to go to
extraordinary landscapes.

We're heading off to do the
very first piece of coverage

of the opening of the whole
Africa series with David.

Well, how do you like the view from my
office?

And attempt air-to-air filming.

Stand by David.

Action.

I'm flying over the great rift valley.

But perhaps the most
ambitious task for this

shoot is the filming
with black rhinoceros.

They have a reputation for being
aggressive and with poor eyesight they're

likely to charge objects or people they
don't recognise.

Ah!

But the plight of the rhino
is such an important story

that we want to get as
close to them as possible.

We also want to meet the people who are
working to protect them.

So our team have come to
assess the viability of filming up

close with a rhino called Elvis,
who's been reared by humans.

He should be safer
than a wild rhino, but

there's still a risk he
could be unpredictable.

With strangers.

Wildlife ranger Tonga Caseo
has brought up Elvis by hand and

knows that tickling him gently
with a stick keeps him calm.

But if anything were to go seriously wrong
there would be little he could do against

a one-ton Elvis and this fact hasn't
escaped cameraman Mike Fox.

He knows we're here.

We're here on his terms.

If he decided to back us all into the next
world he would do.

Director Kate Broome checks with Tonga
that it's safe for the crew to get closer.

Normally we have to stay in the Land
Rovers because saying it's okay to go in.

This is such an extraordinary opportunity
to be this close to a black rhino.

The trial goes well with Elvis and the
stage is set for future filming.

Several weeks later the team are back and
this time I've joined them.

But Elvis's mood has changed.

He seems more willful.

Now I've stood by many
wild animals in my time

but I'm not as fast on
my pins as I used to be.

We don't want to test Elvis's patience so
we get on with filming.

A horn that is worth his weight in gold.

And one way of protecting him would be to
cut that horn off the nose.

How is it?

It looks great.

The team check that
they have what they need

and Elvis lets us know
that he's had enough.

Just watch out everybody.

Yeah.

OK.

Right.

But actually it's a positive sign that
Elvis is not as friendly this time.

Tonga and his colleagues want Elvis to
live more like a wild rhino and develop

awareness of humans that may offer him
some protection from poachers.

Good luck to you Elvis.

Whilst filming we're lucky enough to have
a very well equipped camp.

It's in the bush and there's no escaping
the wild animals.

One of the great wonderful
things about camping

out in the middle of
the open is the animals.

But it could also be one of the dangerous
stroke annoying things.

Absolutely.

In the annoying category the Vervet
monkeys.

Vervet monkeys have
stolen my Ferrari Rocher and

one of my glow sticks
from our medical supplies.

So if we see an illuminous
faced monkey in the night I'll

identify the naughty one
that's been stealing our stuff.

And they leave little presents for us when
they've been in just as a calling card.

But camp manager Andreas finds more
worrying animal signs.

Well the lions were quite quite close just
behind the tents and some must have come

in and I don't know you can see a few
scratches.

I think maybe he was wanting to look at
himself in the mirror.

Lions in camp are worrying enough but there
I was reading my book when... Uh uh...

A Cape Buffalo arrives.

The most grumpy and dangerous of the big
five African animals.

Mike!

Stay in your tent.

Shall we get David to get in the tent?

Buffalo usually move in herds so there's
something odd about him.

It may be that it was brought up as a calf
and it's humanised or it may be that he's

an outcast from the
herd in some way and

that he's rather grumpy
and fed up with life.

But I think it's just hot and
he's just plodding around and

wondering where he might get
a drink and a decent sandwich.

Because I feel the same way myself
actually.

The team's filming has coincided with the
newest arrival at Lewa.

A baby rhino in need of 24 hour care.

This little chap was born blind.

And is guided everywhere by his keepers.

They took him away from
his mother a few weeks

ago because she couldn't
protect him anymore.

He's very vulnerable so he would have been
killed by predators.

It's like turning up a petrol tank.

Every rhino is precious
and so it seems a

fitting end for the final
scene of the series.

No one knows what the future holds for
this little creature.

Nor indeed what changes will take place on
the great continent we're watching from.

David, I found that.

Oh my gosh, there's ants.

They're everywhere.

Yeah, hang on.

Ant, ant attack.

I just found that extraordinarily moving
actually.

Was it what I said was alright?

Yes.

You sure?

And how you did it, I just, it made me
cry.

I'm afraid.

So, David Attenborough's made me cry.

But just as we think we're finishing,
someone won't let us go.

Hello little friend.

He starts to squeak and we're able to have
a little chat.

Think about it, he's got a black world,
isn't he?

And he's got smell and he's got sound.

So, he's more likely to be responding to
sound if he hasn't got the vision.

And it just inquires him, I suppose.

He's coming back.

There is hope for this little fellow.

He's due to have an operation on his eyes,
which may mean that, as an adult,

he can be returned to the wild,
just like Elvis.

I do hope he gets a cataract operation.

It would be marvellous if he did.

Yeah, an enchanting creature.