David requests his first mission be to stop two poachers from capturing more gorillas and chimps.

Careless campers start a fire in the Mediterranean forest; Tomte and his father, Claudio, smell smoke and call for help.

A whale-watcher gnome reports to the Trondheim Council that great blue whales are being killed by humans.

David and Tomte travel to the jungles of India; they save captured, endangered Bengal tigers from being hunted down for trophies and for the illegal powder made from tigers' bones.

There is trouble in the Scandinavian forests; fish and trees are sick and the owls can't hatch owlets because their egg shells are too thin.

The Amazon rainforest is cut down and burned; Zeena, chief of the Rain People, takes a stand against woodcutters who are cutting down the last stand of Chinchona trees.