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Saving Species (1/3)

This is also part of this series: Planet Earth - The Future (3)

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Subjects: Animal Behaviour, Animals, Anthropology, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Geography, Natural History, Nature, Sustainability

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2006
Available in French: No

The sixth extinction phase – are we really at such a crisis point? Planet Earth revealed the Mongolian gazelle on the last great unseen migration spectacle in Asia. Why didn't they film the Saiga Antelope, that was filmed just 15 years ago as a spectacle for another series? The answer is because the Saiga is now on the brink of extinction. Martyn Colbeck and Saiga antelope expert Dr Milner-Gulland tell us why. We also discover why there is a problem in the Simien Highlands in Ethiopia, where people have encroached up the mountains forcing up species to the remaining peaks.

The Polar bears that featured in Planet Earth trying to kill a walrus in the Canadian Arctic are hungry because the warmer climate is reducing the ice floes on which the bears used to hunt seals. But is there really a problem? As Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the United Nations group on Biological Diversity, tells us the rate of extinctions, the Head of IUCN argues that we have no idea how many species there really are. Professor Edward Wilson's contribution is on the importance of the insects.

How do we choose which species we want? Why should we bother to save a highly endangered species? Why should we save the Panda? We hear from the world's leading experts.

Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/

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