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Barra Best reveals how endangered species are being aided across the UK and Europe. Changes to harvesting help hamsters in Bavaria, while in Rome a bird of prey finds a new home.

Barra Best presents a natural history series revealing how endangered animals across the UK and Europe are being helped by conservationists.

Barra reveals how a tiny pair of islands lying just outside Dublin Port have become the unlikely home for a conservation project helping one of Europe鈥檚 most endangered breeding birds.

Scientists off the coast of Scotland attempt to place cameras on the world鈥檚 second largest fish, while in the small Swiss town of Bellinzona, ringing some simple changes have had a big benefit for a mysterious creature of the night. In Amsterdam, volunteers Thea and Gert explain how, as the city鈥檚 skyline undergoes changes, they鈥檙e providing a new home for a creature that spends nine months of the year in the air.

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 27 Jul 2021 22:35

Credits

Role Contributor
Series Producer Simon Miller
Executive Producer Mary McKeagney

Broadcasts

  • Mon 31 May 2021 19:40
  • Sat 5 Jun 2021 16:00
  • Tue 27 Jul 2021 22:35