Deadly Mission: Madagascar

Eight ordinary children from the UK travel to the frontline of conservation in Madagascar. Witnessing the dangers threatening the wildlife, they learn what can be done to try and make a difference. The team arrive in Madagascar and straight away track down two of the world's rarest lemurs. They also come face to face with the problems directly facing these creatures.

The team meet up with a conservation group looking at the super cool sucker footed bats and help out with their research. They discover the unexpected, yet vital role that wildlife plays, before meeting up with the local school kids and leaving something behind that will remind them of their time here, forever.

The team head west to Ranomafana, Madagascar's most famous National Park. To get there they have to kayak down river and work as a team for the first time. They then split into teams and `bio blitz' two areas - one that has once been disturbed by people and the other entirely pristine - to see which area has the most wildlife.

The kids want to find out if a National Park can not only benefit the wildlife but the local people too. They split into teams, with one group encountering a rare Malagasy treat whilst the others learn that conservation is not just important in Madagascar but that it can have a global impact.

The team head North towards Ankarafantsika wildlife reserve, where they hope to find a way of stopping animals from becoming extinct. They meet the conservationists running captive breeding programmes for two reptiles that are found nowhere else on Earth. Finally the team ends up returning some of the rarest and most endangered turtles on the island back into the wild.

The largest predator in Madagascar is a strange animal called a Fossa, which is actually the largest mongoose in the world. The trouble is they are very hard to find. The team join up with an Earth Watch project and their leader, who has been studying the Fossa for years. The team start to understand that these creatures are under threat - but from something that they didn't realise could be a problem.