Fernanda Abra leads a crucial conservation initiative along the roadways of Brazil, where vehicles annually kill about 475 million vertebrates - more than double the country’s human population. She spearheads over 300 projects targeting roads with high wildlife casualties.
Up Next in Season 1
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Rebuilding a Forest
In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, Mauricio Ruiz has turned his love for nature into action by working with the community to reforest a critical stretch of the nation’s most endangered forest, and by using drones to help him reach his goal of planting 15 million trees.
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Rewilding Rio
In the middle of Rio de Janeiro sits the world’s largest urban rainforest: Tijuca National park. To combat a century of deforestation and hunting, a team of researchers are repairing the forest’s forgotten web of life, one species at a time.
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Canine Conservationists
Dogs are often thought of as humans’ best friends. But in Australia, they’re also allies of other species. Canine conservationists - and their sensitive noses - are sniffing out dwindling populations of koalas as the iconic marsupial’s habitat is fragmented by urbanization and wildfires. Dogs are...
