Last Chance to See

Animals

Animals

This wildlife documentary, produced for and aired on the BBC in 2009, is a follow-up to a book and radio series that chronicled the expeditions of writer Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine, whose mission was to find and report on some of the most endangered species around the world. The six-episode TV version features Carwardine -- joined by actor Stephen Fry; Adams died in 2001 -- retracing the steps that he and Adams first took 20 years ago to see how vulnerable species -- manatees in the Amazon, white rhinos in Kenya, Komodo dragons in Malaysia and Indonesia, and others -- are faring.