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The History Hour: Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids

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Saving animals from extinction and cabbage patch dolls

02/12/2023 GMT

Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Saving animals from extinction and Cabbage Patch Kids

The Peruvian bird saved from the brink of extinction and the Cabbage Patch Kids craze

Saving the Peruvian white-winged guan from extinction, the world's first solar powered home and when the world went crazy for Cabbage Patch Kids.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. 

This week, the bird that defied extinction. In 1969, a Peruvian farmer Gustavo Del Solar received an unusual assignment - finding a bird called the white-winged guan that had been regarded as extinct for a century.

The American author and conservationist Michelle Nijhuis is this week's guest. She talks about some of the most interesting attempts in modern history to save animals on the brink of extinction.

Also this week, the world's first solar powered home, when Tanzania adopted Swahili and when the world went crazy for Cabbage Patch Kids.

This programme has been updated since its original broadcast. It was edited on 6 December 2023. 

Contributors:
Rafael Del Solar - son of conservationist Gustavo Del Solar
Michelle Nijhuis - author and conservationist
Meredith Ludwig - friend of Cabbage Patch Kids creator Martha Nelson Thomas
Peter Baxter and George Kling - scientists
Walter Bgoya - author in Tanzania
Andrew Nemethy - lived in the world's first solar powered house

(Photo: A whooping crane. Credit: Getty Images)

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