Our neighbours on Earth

National Geographic Channel Collection

Animals are our neighbours enjoying equal rights on the planet, but we seem to forget it. This program is aimed to remind that all the species deserve mindful attitude and respect from humans. Lions of Serengeti started to attack giraffe calves. This behavior, not typical to lions, evokes our indignation. But do people always treat their neighboring animals properly?

Day by day - more and more species are under threat. The stories of endangered honeybee population and rare chameleons from Greek beaches will uncover those painful efforts that environmentalists take to prevent the drama. Viewers will witness an amazing restoration of disturbed ecosystem in North America: a vast arid territory will be transforming into abundant and fertile lands. But the problem doesn’t always consist in quantity decrease. Thus the population of koalas on one island came up to such an amount that a serious problem of food sources shortening appeared so the animals are to be captured, desexed and resettled to a new environment.

The conflict between people and animals reached its crises in Australia where a strong cyclone destroyed a natural habitat of cassowaries – big, beautiful and strong birds. Hungry and aggressive, they have to search for food in within the city where birds attack people and also risk to be killed under car wheels or be torn into pieces by dogs. The same problem is with kangaroos that are becoming more active in mastering urban life. They teach their youngsters to survive in the city, break into houses and destroy farm lands. To find the right decision for such problems with no harm to both parties of a conflict is a very difficult task.

The Omani Camels have their own unique story. For thousands of years these animals were inseparable with humans assisting them with household and being the only vehicle. With the introduction of cars their role has drastically diminished and camels found themselves almost useless. Camel racing became a real escape but the question is: for how long?

Relations between people and animals sharing the same territory go on differently and not always peacefully. But eventually the way out should be find, acceptable for all.