Last Chance to See

Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine meet in Manaus in the Amazon to go in search of the lugubrious Amazonian manatee They travel by boat and encounter the boto an Amazonian river dolphin itself endangered but fail to find the manatee in the wild Stephen and Mark fly deep into the Amazon and join a river boat searching for manatee but without success They visit INPA in Manaus the Amazonian institution

Stephen and Mark are hoping to see the incredibly rare Northern White Rhino in the Democratic Republic of Congo and they leave Kenya to cross Uganda On their way to Congo they travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park on the Ugandan border to see how money is being spent to ensure the safety of wildlife and stop poaching incursions from across the border Stephen and Mark are involved in a dramatic

Stephen and Mark travel to Madagascar in search of the mysterious nocturnal ayeaye a lemur so ugly that it is said locally to bring death to those who encounter it On a small Island to the west of Madagascar they encounter ayeaye and Mark is able to photograph the animal in the wild They head south and Stephen gets his first encounter with ringtailed lemurs and sifaka ndash the strange

Stephen and Mark travel to the Malay Archipelago on their way to the Indonesian island of Komodo where they hope to see Komodo dragons They begin with a trip to Snake Island where they encounter one of the worlds deadliest snakes The travelers dive a coral reef to see seahorses and visit a market where seahorses and other endangered species are sold as Chinese medicine Finally Stephen and Mark

Stephen and Mark head off to see the nocturnal flightless parrot the kakapo in New Zealand They fly in a helicopter through the dramatic landscape of Fijordland which is the last location of the kakapo on the mainland The travelers get a boat to the Chatham Islands where they see the New Zealand black robin and learn how clearing the island of predators enabled it to survive They meet Don Merton

Stephen and Mark go to the Sea of Cortez Mexico in search of blue whales There Mark and Stephen get involved in a project to collect sea lion poo from an island so that scientists can see how the changing ecosystem is affecting the wildlife They then spend a week on board Horizon the ship that will take them to blue whales On Horizon they encounter Humbouldt squid the giant squid that is taking