After creating the entire Planet Earth series the producers were astonished to find that every animal they featured were threatened with many facing extinction.
The Planet Earth crew realized that they were part of something "immense, mysterious, and disappearing." The sad reality was that the incredible things they captured, creatures and behaviours that had never before been seen, may not ever be seen again.
The Saving Species explores the destruction of habitat, the threats of poaching, and the solutions. That this may very well be our finest hour as a civilization and generation. For we have the technology and the knowledge to come together as a whole and save our dying species and humanity.
A quarter of all mammals are threatened and a third of all amphibians. Half of our forests, wetlands, and grasslands as well have been lost. Our ideas of development need to change because as they are they are "tearing the underling fabric of nature."
In fact many experts believe there is no such thing as sustainable development, we need a sustainable retreat. Rich white men have been the ones saying how and what to save and that organizations make conservation seem like a western luxury. But the people need to come together and realise that they all must be the protectors, because that's when change happens.
Westerners look at a species and try to understand it to judge whether or not they really need it and whether they can exploit it safely. However, natives have said that we did not create it so it does not matter if we understand it or not. We must let it be, and maybe in the future it will save our children.
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