The two fly deeper into the forest to rendezvous with a boat, the Cassiquiari, on the Rio Aripuanã. On the Rio Negro, they have an encounter with a group of endangered botos, which take food from their hands. Hunting has reduced wild manatee numbers to a few thousand individuals. In the opening programme, Fry and Carwardine travel to Manaus in Brazil in search of the Amazonian manatee. In addition, a variety of other animals are filmed on location all over the world.Īn Amazonian manatee calf at a rehabilitation centre in Brazil UK broadcast 6 September 2009, 3.31 million viewers (13.2% audience share) The main aim of each episode was to seek out an endangered species and to investigate its plight. The programme followed four of the last remaining northern white rhinos as they were transferred from Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic to Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a protected reserve in Kenya, in a last-ditch attempt to save the subspecies from extinction. Ī Last Chance to See special called 'Return of the Rhino' was broadcast on BBC Two on 31 October 2010. Sirocco found fame after the video of his antics became an internet hit, and was later anointed as New Zealand's 'spokesbird for conservation'. In one episode, a male kākāpō, called Sirocco, mounts and attempts to mate with Carwardine's head. In this updated television version, produced for the BBC, Stephen Fry and Carwardine revisit the animals originally featured to see how they're getting on almost 20 years later. The series is a follow-up of the 1989 radio series, also called Last Chance to See, in which Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine set out to find endangered animals. Last Chance to See is a wildlife documentary first broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during September and October 2009.

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