The series which explores world conservation issues from the viewpoint of the animals threatened by man's activities, this week follows a young giraffe as she begins a desperate safari in search of water after her source of nourishment, a river In northern Kenya, has dried out.
The camera follows her, sometimes at the giraffe's own eye level, across a baking desert. Eventually the giraffe discovers a mountain, a rain forest and a life-saving lake.
The programme reveals that such wild animals, and the people with whom they share the terrain, cope with drought in a very different way to modem man.
For in the distance a new dam has been built - a contemporary human attempt to solve the same problem as the giraffe has always faced.
Series producer Richard Brock
On safari -a young giraffe's search for survival
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