Episode 1
With wildlife under threat from climate change and biodiversity crises, Barra Best meets the people working to create safe spaces for our plants and animals to help them thrive.
By the middle of this century, it’s predicted more than two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. BBC weather presenter Barra Best visits cities across Europe to meet the people at the forefront of wildlife conservation. He finds how their ingenuity in providing safe spaces for plants and animals in urban environments is helping reverse declining trends and seeing species return to places where they’d been wiped out by development.
Beginning his journey in his hometown of Belfast, Barra finds out how a lightbulb moment saved one of the city’s most spectacular natural phenomena from extinction.
He travels to the Balearic island of Ibiza, where work is underway to protect their national symbol from an invading snake. We see how one woman is single-handedly protecting the fish in the canals of Leiden in the Netherlands, and meet the hedgehog researchers in Berlin hoping to solve a prickly problem. In Cork, we meet the team giving the city’s growing population of peregrine falcons a safe space high above the city.
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