Steve Backshall is back with a team of young explorers for a life changing experience like no other. Eight hand picked adventurers are dropped into the heart of the Madagascan rainforest on a Deadly mission.
Eight ordinary children from the UK travel to Madagascar to the frontline of conservation to see the dangers facing the wildlife there, to learn what can be done to help and ultimately try to make a difference.
The team meet up with a conservation group looking at the super cool sucker footed bats and help out with their research and discover the unexpected, yet vital role that wildlife plays.
The team head west to Ranomafana - Madagascar's most famous National Park, but to get there they have to kayak down river - and work as a team, for the first time.
The team want to find out if a National Park can not only benefit the wildlife but the local people too. They split into teams and one team have an encounter with a real rare Malagasy treat.
The team head North towards Ankarafantsika wildlife reserve. Here they hope to find a way of stopping animals from becoming extinct, by meeting the conservationists running captive breeding programmes for two reptiles.
The largest predator in Madagascar is a strange cat-like dog animal called a Fossa. The trouble is they are very hard to find. The team join up with an Earth Watch project and their leader Dr Luke Dollar.
Off the east coast is a tiny island paradise called Ile St Marie and it is here that our adventurers head to, to face their next set of challenges. First up is the Humpback whale. Here they set out with a conservation group.
Reefs are being damaged and spoilt all over the world and Madagascar is not immune. The team carry out a reef survey to see what state the reef is in here, and it is mixed news; some of it is quite damaged, but why?
Eilidh heads out on an expedition of her very own to discover a way to help the reef. Artificial reefs could well hold the key. With another issue tackled their time in Madagascar is fast running out.
With only two days left in Madagascar the team suffer a setback, but help is at hand in the furry forms of Lemurs to remind them all why they have come here in the first place.
Preview: Steve Backshall is back with a team of young explorers for a life changing experience like no other. Eight hand picked adventurers are dropped into the heart of the Madagascan rainforest on a Deadly mission.
