Hard Truths of Conservation With Dan Cabela

The pressure of human encroachment and poaching are the greatest threats to wildlife in Africa. Dan Cabela travels to Tanzania to see how Robin Hurt Safaris manages two large conservation areas in the face of these daily challenges.

Dan Cabela explores how the regulated utilization of gators in modern times, through egg harvesting, farming and hunting, helped bring the population back to healthy levels.

Human-wildlife conflict is common in Borneo, where human populations are scattered throughout the landscape. Dan Cabela travels to the area to participate in an ambitious elephant collaring project showing how people and elephants can live harmoniously.

Famous for its Mayan ruins, the Yucatán in Mexico is home to diverse wildlife. After years of overharvesting and exploitation, regulated hunting is helping to conserve large areas of this fragile ecosystem. Dan Cabela travels to the region to learn more.

Dan Cabela participates in a scientific sampling project to monitor the health of the musk ox population in Barren Ground, Canada, hoping to gain first-hand experience of the relationship between its local people and this near-mythical Arctic icon.

Traveling to the heart of Scotland's highlands, Dan Cabela examines how traditional hunting has shaped the landscape and benefitted local people and native wildlife over centuries.

With the fall of the Soviet Union, wildlife populations in Tajikistan were devastated. However, thanks to funding generated via hunting, species unique to its mountainous terrain are now protected. Dan Cabela explores Tajikistan's conservation success.

Dan Cabela is joining a team of veterinarians and biologists on an ambitious capture operation to test and monitor bighorn sheep in Nevada. He hopes to understand better how the hunting community helps fund population recoveries.

South Africa offers incredible insight into our sapient ancestors' hunter-gatherer history. Dan Cabela retraces the footsteps of humanity's forebears and explores how modern, private land ownership has helped rebalance the human relationship with nature.

The bison, an American icon, nearly became extinct in North America. Luckily, a small group of conservationists saved the last few hundred animals more than a century ago. Thanks to a sustainable-use model, bison populations are growing again today.

Although threatened in their native range, mountain-dwelling tahr thrive in New Zealand. Dan Cabela investigates the challenges of managing a non-native species and balancing ecosystem protection with the economic benefit of hunters harvesting tahr.

A species established just after the last Ice Age, the blacktail deer of Vancouver Island offer a significant genetic population isolated from the mainland. Dan Cabela travels to the island to learn more about their harvesting, conservation and history.