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ANDREW LINCOLN: For three years...

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..the Force Of Nature team

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filmed nature's fight...

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..against today's extreme weather...

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..through mega monsoons...

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Look at it.

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..and raging wildfires.

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It just shows how brutal
it is out here for the chimps.

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RETCHING
The crew were pushed to the limits

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as they faced...

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..the full fury of the elements.

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Whoa!

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Teaming up with the world's
top scientists...

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WHISPERING:
At least two males walk here.

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Yeah, it's definitely here
somewhere.

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..they discovered...

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..that resilience

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and ingenuity enable many species
to pull through.

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LAUGHTER
Yes!

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But some desperately need
a helping hand...

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..revealing a hopeful truth...

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..even small actions...

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ELEPHANT TRUMPETS
..can have a far-reaching impact...

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..for all our wild animals...

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..facing the full Force Of Nature.

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THUNDER CRACKS

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THUNDER RUMBLES

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The biggest weather events
on the planet

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are getting wilder.

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You see it? Look at it.

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The Force Of Nature team
is in Borneo...

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..to film how the worsening monsoon

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is affecting
the rarest elephant on Earth...

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GROWLS DEEPLY

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..the Bornean elephant.

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The small pockets of forest
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are beginning to flood.

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THUNDER RUMBLES
DISTANTLY

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It won't be long before they have
to cross the swollen river.

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The elephants are getting close.

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They've been in one area
for quite a long time,

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so they'll probably have
to cross soon,

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as they're running out of food.

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Crossing in water this high,
and the current is so strong,

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yeah, it's gonna be
interesting to see.

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After three months of rainfall
in just three days,

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the river has burst its banks.

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The crew have turned
to Dr Farina Othman

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to help them work out

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when and where
the elephants will cross.

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The forests are too small,

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and they will cross,

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and then they will go
to the next forest,

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and then cross again.

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But during flooding season,
this could be dangerous,

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and they might get drowned.

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Farina has put GPS collars
on select elephants...

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..helping the crew to narrow down
where they might be.

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This is where they were,

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and it's looking like
they're heading across here,

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to this crossing point over here.

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It's a sure sign
that the elephants are close by.

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DEEP GROWLING

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A herd of 20 elephants
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that now stretches
more than 100 metres wide.

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The stakes could not be higher

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as the drone reveals
a young baby in the herd.

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It looks like they're trying
to huddle around the baby.

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I think they're trying to pick
the right time to go, but the...

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ELEPHANT TRUMPETING
Ooh. The current is pretty strong.

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To get the baby safely across,

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the herd will have to form
a protective barrier around her.

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Holly, Holly, we're going to go in,
so we can cross you the baby.

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MAN: 'Copy that.'

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To keep a safe distance,

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the crew position themselves
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BABY MEWS
Not too close yet.

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ELEPHANT TRUMPETING

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Where's the baby, Will?
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The baby looks like
it's getting really tired now.

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The current's really strong.

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ELEPHANT SCREECHES

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The current pulls the family apart.

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And the baby starts to panic.

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She's swimming
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FARINA:

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But just when the crew
fears the worst...

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..the current weakens its grip...

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..and the baby is able
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..who guides her
to the safety of the river bank.

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She's crossed,
and she's clearly tired.

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That was incredible.
That's just magic.

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My heart is going very fast - still.
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To prevent dangerous river crossings
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we have to tackle
the root of the problem.

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Up to 80% of the elephants' forest

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has been lost
to palm oil plantations.

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Imagine, after crossing
a very strong current,

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and now they have to face
another challenge,

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which is, you know,
people try to push them away again.

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Farina's life's work is dedicated
to educating plantation workers...

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SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE

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..in the hope
they will allow the elephants

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to cross safely through their land.

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If we can make them understand
a little bit of, you know,

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simple signs of elephants,

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how the elephants looks like
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how the elephant looks like
when they are relaxed,

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so at least we can give them
a bit of confidence

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during the encounter
with the elephants,

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so that there will be no incidents
to people, and also to elephants.

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But the most important part
of Farina's work

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is convincing plantations to remove
the barriers to the elephants...

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..so they can reach
the remaining fragments of forest

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without ever having
to cross the river.

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Thanks to Farina,

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four out of seven plantations
are now committed

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to creating corridors
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But her team won't stop campaigning

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until they've persuaded the rest.

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We are losing so much right now
that God knows,

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like, what will happen
to the next generation.

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But there's still hope.

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Little efforts together

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will bring help
for the next generation.

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As the planet warms,

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weather patterns around the world
are shifting.

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The team is in Mexico

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to film how breeding flocks
of Caribbean flamingos

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are coping with the early onset
of the hurricane season.

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Cameraman Miguel
is trying to sneak up

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on a colony of 45,000 birds.

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MIGUEL: 'Pretty close to 6'2",

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'and the hide's
probably about five foot high,

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'so I can't stand up straight.'

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He's joined
by flamingo scientist Alex Dzib.

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FLAMINGOS SQUAWK

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ALEX: Flamingo is my favourite bird.

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When I was growing up,

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I used to go and see the flamingos
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taking tourists,
taking the biologists.

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And then I decide,
"Oh, I'm gonna be a biologist."

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The colour is really outstanding.

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The babies are beautiful,
like a cotton ball with pink legs,

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so they are kind of like
the cutest thing.

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CHICK SQUEAKS

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And I think it's one of the most
interesting birds on Earth.

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The lagoon is unusually hot
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an early indicator
that the hurricane season

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could start any day.

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The flamingos, they will be trying
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before the hurricane comes.

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But now,
with the changes of weather,

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things are more adverse
for flamingos.

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THUNDER RUMBLES

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It's not long
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blow in from the ocean.

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Not the most waterproof hide, so...

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..this is my, erm, solution.

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The crew are here
to film extreme weather.

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THUNDER CRACKS
We're... Whoa!

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But it quickly becomes clear

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this is no ordinary storm.

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It's the outer edge of a hurricane.

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As the storm interferes
with radio comms,

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director Fernanda
becomes concerned for Miguel.

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He's now completely cut off.

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ANDREW LINCOLN:
At the flamingo colony,

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the hurricane is battering
Miguel's camera hide.

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But he's more concerned
for the chicks.

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MIGUEL: Water level's been rising.

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Some of the chicks are looking
pretty precarious, I'd say.

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It's quite hard watching the mum
and the chick as the water's rising,

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trying to keep the chick safe.

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WIND HOWLS

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THUNDER RUMBLES

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So, I've got a little,
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The hurricane may have passed,

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but the colony has been hit hard
at its most vulnerable.

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When we have these big rains
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the rains are very, very strong,

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and the flamingos,

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then they end up on their own.

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Scattered by the strong winds,

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hundreds of chicks
are at risk of hypothermia.

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It's a tough thing to witness.

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Aw. Ay, ay, ay.

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But flamingo fanatic Alex
has a bold plan.

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These birds mean so much
to the local community...

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..Alex has no problem assembling
a small army of volunteers...

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LAUGHTER

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THEY SPEAK
OWN LANGUAGE

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..to help reunite the lost chicks
with their parents.

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SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE

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'My family always says,

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' "You care more
about flamingos than us." '

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But they do it
in a great, positive way,

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because they also love flamingos.

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I feel like flamingos
are part of my family.

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Every chick collected
is vital to the colony's future.

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CHICKS CHIRP

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And although so many have been lost
to the early hurricane season...

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..the flamingos are fighting back -

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by starting to breed
for a second time.

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Even so,

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Alex is fearful for the future
of his beloved flamingos.

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They are so fragile.

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In the other way,
they are really, really strong.

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Slowly, slowly, they are adapting
to face adverse environment,

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and this is basically something
that nature always teach us,

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which is survival of the fittest.

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If the flamingos find a better place
where they can nest,

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that would be really devastating,
because then I won't have flamingos.

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And I won't have...

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..any more friends,
and that's really sad.

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As hurricanes intensify
in the Caribbean...

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..across the Atlantic...

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..rising temperatures
fuel another weather extreme.

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Botswana is in the grip
of a record-breaking drought.

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The Force Of Nature team
is battling the elements

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in search of a lioness
that has become a local legend.

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Jeez!
BOTH LAUGH

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But finding her in these conditions
won't be easy.

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It's been about
a two-hour-long dust storm

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that we've been driving through,
with probably 100-metre visibility.

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Unable to see far at ground level,
the team changes tactic.

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There they are.

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Her name's Motlhokomedi.
It means "protector".

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She seems to have fully taken over
both of her sisters' cubs.

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Which is a first for me.

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I've never seen this before,
a lioness taking care of eight cubs.

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She's now kept
all eight of them alive

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for the past month, by herself.

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The drought is taking its toll
on the family.

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But remarkably,
the desert delivers a lifeline.

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Rainwater from distant mountains

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travels hundreds of miles
to form an oasis...

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..drawing in the largest herd
of Cape buffalo in Africa.

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It would normally take a whole pride
to bring one down.

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ON RADIO: 'The lions to my left
are about 150 metres now.'

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OK, copy that. We're gonna follow
your line and around to your side.

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Motlhokomedi is going to take on
the whole herd... solo.

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Look at this.
It's a massive herd.

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First, she taunts them.

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Oh, she's going, she's going,
she's going.

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Then she drives them into a panic.

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Yeah, she's on it. She's on it,
she's on it, she's on it.

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As the herd runs,
it kicks up a dust storm.

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This is insane.

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That dust is epic.

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Using the smokescreen as cover...

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..she makes her move.

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DEEP GRUNTING

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Motlhokomedi has taken down
a buffalo...

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..on her own.

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She brought down
quite a bit of an older calf,

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but the herd rallied and came in
and smashed her pretty hard.

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So we're gonna go check on her now

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and see if she got any damage
from that.

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It looked like a really hard whack,
so I hope she's OK.

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The hunt has left her
with a serious eye injury.

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The following day,
she and the cubs disappear.

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For days, Tem and the team search...

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..in vain.

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Our biggest concern
is that lions have been known

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to prioritise their own health
over their cubs,

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so Dan and I were really worried
that she abandoned her cubs.

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But then, a sighting.

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She's a bit of a distance away,

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so we're racing off
to go find her now.

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Fairly exciting.

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I hope all eight cubs
have been able to make it.

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This is really good news.

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They should be close by

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because their tracks
were fresh, fresh, fresh.

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I've got her tracks again here now.

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Oh, my gosh. There they are.

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Oh, wow.

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It's so heart-warming
to see all of them together now.

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And that injury
is healing so nicely.

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It's unbelievable.

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It's almost like just a baby scratch
on her face now.

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We've really gotten
quite attached to her

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because we've never seen
a female lion so committed

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to the cause of keeping
all the cubs alive.

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She is a real fighter.

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Awesome. Awesome, awesome.

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I'm so stoked.

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TEM LAUGHS

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ANDREW LINCOLN:
The Force Of Nature team

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has swapped extreme heat
for the icy peaks of the Himalayas.

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Oh!

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For three weeks,

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they've been playing
a game of cat and mouse

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with a young male snow leopard

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who's been ousted
from his territory.

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Over 4,000 metres,
there's less oxygen in the air.

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Everything is harder.

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RADIO CHATTER

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SIGHS

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And after a mammoth climb,

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the team gets some unexpected intel.

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We've just walked up
a... 800-metre hill,

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and as we get to the top,

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they tell us there's a snow leopard
at the bottom of the hill.

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So now we've got to go
back down to where we started.

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The young snow leopard has been seen

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making his way down
to local guide Namgail's village.

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As the mountains warm
and the snow line retreats,

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snow leopard and human territories
are increasingly overlapping.

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IN OWN LANGUAGE:

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The atmosphere is tense

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as the crew set up
on either side of the valley.

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Yeah.
Got it?

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Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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Wow. Look at you.

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CATTLE LOW

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Er, keep an eye on the road.

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More to your left,
more to your left.

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But what the leopard
sets his sights on

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takes everyone by surprise.

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DOGS BARKING

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DOG WHIMPERS

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The snow leopard attacking the dog
has shocked the villagers,

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who call in the local
wildlife protection team.

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DEEP GRUNTING

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GROWLS

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And the young leopard
is taken into their care.

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The young male will be released
in a safe location,

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far from the village.

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LEOPARD GROWLS

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And as for the dog
that was attacked,

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she also survived
and was taken to a rescue centre.

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Are you feeling better now? Eh?

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It's amazing that she's actually
back to full health now,

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as you can see. Hello!

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SIREN WAILS

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In the back of this truck

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is a wild, and awake,
and alive snow leopard

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that we are trying to get
to its location.

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They want to get it released
as quickly as possible.

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At a carefully selected site,

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far from the village
and other competing males,

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he'll have the best chance
of finding a territory of his own.

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As the Himalayas warm,

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the work
of the wildlife protection team

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has never been more critical...

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..if India's last 750 snow leopards
are to survive.

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Across the world,

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00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,000
record temperatures
are setting animals

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00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,360
on a collision course...

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with humans.

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00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000
The crew is in Senegal...

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00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000
..following a family
of savannah chimpanzees...

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..our closest living relatives.

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To keep up, they must run
over ten kilometres a day

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in 45-degree heat.

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00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,000
Too much
for assistant producer Chris...

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HE RETCHES

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You OK?

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..who quickly succumbs
to heat exhaustion.

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CHRIS: They are so much better
adapted to the heat than we are.

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000
It's kind of remarkable.

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I sort of don't know how
it's possible for them to survive.

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00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,360
Helping the crew to interact safely
with the chimps

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is local scientist Michel.

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Then we go that way.

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IN OWN LANGUAGE:

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The family Michel studies

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is led by an alpha male named Cy.

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It's his responsibility
to find the troop water

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during the worst drought
in a hundred years.

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With all their natural water sources
run dry,

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he leads the troop
into uncharted territory.

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A gold mine.

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Filled with risk...

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..and reward.

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As soon as the workers down tools,

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Cy makes his move.

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In a daring raid,
never filmed before...

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..he lowers himself
into an unstable mineshaft.

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00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,200
That is brilliant.

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00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,000
This whole area has been, like,
completely devastated by mining.

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But actually, the chimps have turned
that to their advantage.

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00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000
And in that hole, cos they've dug
down below the water level,

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there was water, and the chimps
have just gone in and drunk from it.

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This remarkable behaviour
shows chimps, just like us,

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will go to extraordinary lengths
to provide for their family.

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But taking from the human world
comes with danger.

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WHISPERS: A guy has just walked out,
and he had a catapult.

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He just got the catapult ready.

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CHIMPS SCREECH

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I mean, I don't know
what he was thinking.

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That's pretty scary, though.

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MICHEL:

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Without a safe supply of water,

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these chimps could disappear
in just two generations.

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But the local villagers are
determined not to let that happen.

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The Neighbor Ape project
was set up

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00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:14,000
to help chimps survive
today's extreme drought.

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By digging a well
away from the dangers of the mine...

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00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,000
..the chimps can safely access
the water

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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000
they so desperately need.

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00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,840
This river that's just
at the edge of the village

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00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,000
is a really important water source
for the chimps.

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00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
But this year,
it's dried up pretty early,

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00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,000
and they're digging a well
for the chimps to drink.

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00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,360
It's an amazing collaboration
between the villagers here,

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00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,000
who really care about the chimps.

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Finally,
the chimps can drink in safety.

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Michel knows that by providing
a permanent water source,

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the family he's grown
to know so well

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will have a future here.

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MICHEL:

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ANDREW LINCOLN:
90% of the world's excess heat

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00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
is absorbed by the ocean.

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00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,000
It's having
catastrophic consequences

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on the largest living structure
on Earth...

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..Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000
Home to over 9,000 species...

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..including the world's
most famous little fish...

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..the clownfish.

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00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,000
This pair is struggling
to raise a family

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in one of the fastest-changing
habitats on the planet.

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00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000
Underwater cameraman and biologist
Richard Fitzpatrick

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00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,000
has been filming
on the Great Barrier Reef

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00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
for over 30 years.

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00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,000
But he has never witnessed

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00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000
a marine heatwave
like this before...

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..the worst in recorded history.

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00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000
The water is really warm.

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00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,000
It's actually too warm,
to be honest.

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So you know, straight away,
that something is really wrong.

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When he arrives
at the clownfish's home,

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his worst fears are confirmed.

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The heatwave has caused
the clownfish's anemone

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00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,000
to expel the colourful algae
that feeds it,

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00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,000
and it's turned a deathly white.

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00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,200
Those fish that are larger
and more migratory

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00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,000
will go to deeper water
or leave the reef,

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00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000
go somewhere cooler,
but some fish can't leave.

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00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
And a classic example of that
is the clownfish.

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00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000
You know,
it lives with the sea anemone.

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00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
It can't go anywhere else.

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00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
And if their anemone dies,
they've got no safe home,

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00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,000
and the clownfish will die.

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00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000
And it's not just the anemone
that's in trouble.

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00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Richard discovers
that most of the coral reef

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00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000
has now bleached.

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00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Must say, it's pretty depressing
to see the coral's dying.

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00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Thing that's becoming
more obvious to me is,

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00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,360
when I go back
to all these sites,

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00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,000
is that we're just getting
less and less diversity,

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00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,360
less and less size ranges.

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00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Less and less life.

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00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,000
But not all hope is lost.

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00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,000
Scientists are racing
to come up with solutions

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00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,840
to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

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00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Some are developing
heat-resistant coral.

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00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Others are freezing coral spawn,

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00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,000
to be stored for when
more favourable conditions return.

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00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,000
And once a year,

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00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,000
people travel
from all over Australia

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00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,000
to take part
in a mass coral-planting event

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00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,840
called Coralpalooza.

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00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,000
It's a chance for Richard to help
restore his part of the reef.

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00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,520
Towards the end of filming,

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00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,000
there are encouraging signs
of recovery.

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00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,000
The clownfish can help the anemone

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00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
by defending it
from potential predators

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00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,040
and keeping detritus off it,

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00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:36,000
trying to keep the anemone
as low-stressed as possible.

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00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,840
And then,
if the water temperature does drop,

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00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,000
the anemone can actually recover.

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00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,000
It is now known
that anemones with clownfish

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00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000
are far more likely
to survive a bleaching event

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00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,000
than those without.

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00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,000
Richard believes
that by digging deep

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00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,000
to protect their patch of the reef,

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00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,680
clownfish can be
an inspiration to us all.

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00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,000
I hope there is hope. You know?

484
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,840
I've always been a fan
of sci-fi movies where, you know,

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00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,000
when it comes to the crunch,
humanity gets behind

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00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,000
and, you know,
we come up with the solutions.

487
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000
Every person on this planet
has to take responsibility

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00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,000
for their own carbon cost.

489
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,200
You know, switching off
the light bulbs

490
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,000
will literally save a coral.

491
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,000
Across this series,

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00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,000
we've revealed extraordinary ways
animals can fight back...

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00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,360
..from lizards
evolving bigger feet...

494
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,000
..to polar bears hunting on land.

495
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000
But some animals need
a helping hand.

496
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,000
The world's scientists all agree -

497
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,840
climate change is a complex problem.

498
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,000
But solving it
is a shared responsibility

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00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,000
that we can all play a part in.

500
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,000
Climate change affects the mountains
and the sea first,

501
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,000
so it affects the animals a lot.

502
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,000
We must accept that
they are living on this planet,

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00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,840
and they have the same rights as us.

504
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:57,000
Let's allow the elephants to migrate
or use the water

505
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000
that we use
to water our crops with as well.

506
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,000
A bit of a balance between the two.

507
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Little efforts together

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00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000
will bring more hope
for the next generation.