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Planet California Planet Without Apes

‘Planet California’ is a series about California’s wildlife ‘Planet Without Apes’ follows Michel Abdollahi and
and wild places, and the extreme forces which are a raft of reporters and activists worldwide as they
now pushing them to a tipping point. Employing bid to expose the cruel business of the illegal ape
new science, combined with stunning images and trade. Starting in the Congo with the discovery of a
storytelling we look at the future for California’s wildlife bonobo shot by poachers, Michel and his team will
in the face of growing threats. With the increasing do whatever it takes to expose these criminals. When
intensity of the extreme forces it is facing – wildfires, the team discover a bonobo with questionable
drought, ocean warming and human encroachment documents in a rooftop zoo in Bangkok, they will
– what is happening to California’s wildlife now, has need all the help they can get from whistleblowers
implications to wildlife worldwide. That’s why it is and international experts like Jane Goodall if they’re
‘Planet California’. going to stand a chance at saving it and claiming a
victory over the traffickers.

Genre: Nature & Wildlife Genre: Nature & Wildlife
Format: 2 x 60’ / 4K / 2021 Format: 1 x 60’ / HD / 2021
Credits: Terra Mater Factual Studios / Wild Logic / PBS/Doclights / Credits: Norddeutscher Rundfunk / Doclights
NDR Naturfilm / ARTE France

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