NOVA — S43E20 — Wild Ways

00:00:02 NARRATOR: Lions

00:02:55 Sheltered by national parks and game reserves

00:05:32 continuous studies of any animal species on earth

00:07:46 or even their fathers in some cases

00:10:01 These large mammals are the first to go

00:12:08 PROCTOR: All right, I'm going to do a physical exam,

00:13:49 Pack up

00:16:19 and we found many of those places across the landscape

00:18:30 that were there when the parks were created

00:20:57 stands like this were down to my knee level,

00:23:08 But which places outside of parks

00:24:55 up the Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone

00:27:03 to find mates and forage for food

00:29:30 and coyotes were getting killed every year,

00:31:33 NARRATOR: Unlike the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park,

00:33:46 because there's other fence designs out there that can be

00:36:00 who live and make their livings on that landscape

00:38:19 on the continent

00:40:20 requires a powerful drug

00:42:53 NARRATOR: Elephants cover enormous territories in their search

00:45:09 we're really recording and observing

00:47:27 as well as contribute to protecting it

00:49:41 CHASE: The KAZA TFCA is one of the last great hopes

00:52:11 It's our last chance to protect the diversity of life on Earth