Eco-Heroines

Name: Eco-Heroines
Released: 2020-04-08T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary

Explores the incredible work being done by leading female conservationists around the world, each on a mission to save a local species from the brink of extinction.

2020 · 52m

Director Franck Sanson, Philippe Gaw

EPISODE 1

Karen and the Dugongs

Plunge into the waters of Mozambique and meet Karen, a woman on a mission to save the Dugong, the most threatened sea mammal on the planet; can she bring it back from the brink of extinction?
EPISODE 3

Monique and the Sloths

Monique Pool, also known as the "Sloth Lady," journeys to the forests of Suriname to rescue sloths, nurse them back to health and release them back into the wild.
EPISODE 1

Ugglepapegojan

Travel with Deirdre Vercoe as she monitors the Kakapo, or owl parrot, a flightless bird found on two islands in New Zealand; can these birds be kept safe and encouraged to breed?
EPISODE 2

Saigaantilopen

Elena Esipovas devotes her life to saving the saiga, a critically endangered antelope; in 2015, when an epidemic wipes out half of the remaining population, her work becomes all the more urgent.