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Paula Kahumbu visits the beautiful Gonarezhou National Park, one of the most remote parts of Zimbabwe. The Chilojo Cliffs can be seen in the background, which is why Paula has come. She is here to witness the local elephant herd scale down the cliffs in search of their next water supply in the dry season. (National Geographic for Disney/Freddie Claire)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Paula Kahumbu visits the beautiful Gonarezhou National Park, one of the most remote parts of Zimbabwe. The Chilojo Cliffs can be seen in the background, which is why Paula has come. She is here to witness the local elephant herd scale down the cliffs in search of their next water supply in the dry season. (National Geographic for Disney/Freddie Claire)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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An elephant makes its last few steps towards the life-giving river just after having made the steep descent down the cliffs of Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe. (National Geographic for Disney/Freddie Claire)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A young calf must prepare for a potentially perilous journey down the Chilojo Cliffs in order to keep up with the herd in the search for their next water source. (National Geographic for Disney/Freddie Claire)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A family of elephants roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A family of elephants roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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An elephant roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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An elephant roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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An elephant roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A family of elephants roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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An elephant roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A family of elephants roam through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A mother elephant and young calf roam through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A elephants roam through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction.(National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A family of elephants roam through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction.(National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A mother elephant and young calf roam through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A young calf roams through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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A mother elephant and young calf roam through Kimana Sanctuary, a crucial corridor that links Amboseli National Park with the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas in Kenya, on May 23, 2022. As well as being the largest land mammal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today, this iconic species faces the biggest threats to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction. (National Geographic for Disney/Nichole Sobecki)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Long'uro and friends at Reteti Elephant Orphanage in Northern Samburu. They were all rescued from life threatening situations and brought to this community run sanctuary. They are now are being raised together until they are old enough to go back to the wild. Long'uro lost his trunk after he fell into a well and was attacked by a hyena. With the help of his friends at the orphanage, he has adapted to life without his trunk and is thriving. (National Geographic for Disney/Josh Tarr)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Wildlife expert, Paula Kahumbu, has loved wildlife since she was a child and is now a passionate activist, speaking on behalf of the animals that can't speak for themselves. (National Geographic for Disney/Wim Vorster)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Wildlife expert, Paula Kahumbu, has loved wildlife since she was a child and is now a passionate activist, speaking on behalf of the animals that can't speak for themselves. (National Geographic for Disney/Wim Vorster)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Paula Kahumbu visits the beautiful Gonarezhou National Park, one of the most remote parts of Zimbabwe. The Chilojo Cliffs can be seen in the background, which is why Paula has come. She is here to witness the local elephant herd scale down the cliffs in search of their next water supply in the dry season. (National Geographic for Disney/Freddie Claire)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Elephant expert Joyce Poole poses for a photo. She has studied elephants for almost 5 decades and along with her husband has created the elephant ethogram, the first comprehensive library of thousands of elephant behaviors. There's nothing like this for any other species on earth. (National Geographic for Disney/Wim Vorster)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Elephant expert Joyce Poole poses for a photo. She has studied elephants for almost 5 decades and along with her husband has created the elephant ethogram, the first comprehensive library of thousands of elephant behaviors. There's nothing like this for any other species on earth. (National Geographic for Disney/Wim Vorster)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Elephant expert Joyce Poole poses for a photo. She has studied elephants for almost 5 decades and along with her husband has created the elephant ethogram, the first comprehensive library of thousands of elephant behaviors. There's nothing like this for any other species on earth. (National Geographic for Disney/Wim Vorster)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Elephant expert Joyce Poole. She has studied elephants for almost 5 decades and along with her husband has created the elephant ethogram, the first comprehensive library of thousands of elephant behaviors. There's nothing like this for any other species on earth. (National Geographic for Disney/Wim Vorster)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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Behind the scenes of the film crew recording Paula Kahumbu as she witnesses the elephants at Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe, scaling down the Chilojo Cliffs. (National Geographic for Disney/Freddie Claire)
Episode: #2 "Desert"
Air Date 04/21/2023
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