Last Chance to See (TV series)

Last Chance to See
Title card from the "Kakapo" episode
Genre	Nature documentary
Presented by	Stephen Fry Mark Carwardine
Composers	David Ayers, Felix Tod
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Sam Organ, André Singer
Producer	Tim Green
Production locations	New Zealand Brazil Madagascar Indonesia Malaysia Mexico Kenya Uganda
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	BBC Wales, West Park Pictures
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	6 September (2009-09-06) – 18 October 2009 (2009-10-18)
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Last Chance to See is a wildlife documentary first broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during September and October 2009. 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. 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.^[1][2]

In one episode, a male kākāpō, called Sirocco, mounts and attempts to mate with Carwardine's head. Sirocco found fame after the video of his antics became an internet hit,^[3] and was later anointed as New Zealand's "spokesbird for conservation".^[4]

A Last Chance to See special called "Return of the Rhino" was broadcast on BBC Two on 31 October 2010. 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.^[5]