Work on the Wild Side

Following Brits working with animals in South Africa's national parks, with the first edition meeting two people volunteering at a sanctuary for orphaned rhinos. Cornish vet Emily attempts a life-threatening giraffe relocation, while marine biologist Alison finds a new way of dealing with plastic pollution on the Western Cape.

Vet Emily takes on a challenging lion relocation, and has a close call when the big cat unexpectedly wakes up. Croydon-born Harriet goes on the hunt for Charlize the elephant.

Emma deals with a very sick emergency patient, and Birmingham-born Anna is hoping to help dehorn five white rhinos to make them less valuable to poachers.

Emma looks after an aardvark that requires daily five-hour walks, Jenna and Sean try to discover how good an elephant's hearing is and Josie treats a monkey that has been run over.

It's a big day for the vets and volunteers, as Harriet is called out to an emergency operation on an elephant whose leg has been wounded by a poacher's snare. Volunteer Debbie is put to the test as nine orphaned baby monkeys arrive at once, and Emma becomes surrogate mum to three-week-old baby hippo, Hector.

Vet Will transports a bull elephant to a new home, while marine biologist Alison prepares to release three critically endangered African penguins back into the ocean.

Jenna and Sean enlist the help of elephants and a meercat, using the animals remarkable sense of smell to determine if deadly puff adders have no odour.

Vet Emily as she carries out the risky procedure of anaesthetising a cheetah. Meanwhile, Emma has her hands full with a troop of mongooses.

Josie welcomes a new arrival at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, marine biologist Alison is on a mission to tag a great white shark and vets Emily and Annie are called in to help a white rhino with a nasty horn injury. Plus, an update on Hector the baby hippo.

It's vaccination day at the rhino sanctuary, and Rachel is worried about orphan Hawk who has an eye infection. On the Eastern Cape, vet Emily is called to help four young sable antelope who are being bullied by an older dominant male.

Vet Emily oversees a very tricky giraffe capture on the Eastern Cape, while Rachel is worried about orphan Lily's progress at the Care for Wild Africa rhino sanctuary.

Annie and Will move an infamous pride of lions that ate some poachers in 2018. Emma checks in on some genets and a bush baby. Josie introduces some blind monkeys to their new home.

Harriet and the team at Elephants Alive are on a mission to save three naughty elephants, Debbie deals with six escapee baby monkeys, and Emma greets the new arrival of a very cute baby mongoose

Marine biologist Alison is busy preparing for the release of Nick, a critically endangered African penguin, on the Western Cape. Vet Emily has to anaesthetise a cheetah that needs to go to a new home.

Anna and the team from the Rhino Revolution dehorn two rare and very dangerous black rhinos, while Emma prepares Finya the black-backed jackal for release. Jenna and Sean, the leading forces in elephant research, tackle the growing problem of human and elephant conflict.

Harriet races against time to find a partially blind bull elephant that is seriously injured, while Emily and Annie try to track down a roan antelope that has bolted from its herd.

A vet has to dehorn a mother rhino and its calf as well as moving three males to a new home. Zoologists compare glucose levels between elephants in the wild and kept in zoos.

Marine biologist Alison is out at sea to check on a colony of seals on the Western Cape, and vet Annie has to relocate a female rhino.

Debbie at Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre calls on fellow Brit Emma to take in two baby jackals that have been found abandoned, while Emily and Will relocate two cheetahs.

Emma at Umoya Khulula Wildlife Center has a tiny bush baby that needs round-the-clock care. Jenna and Sean are forced to stop elephant research for the day as a bush fire comes perilously close to destroying their home. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Cape, vets Annie and Lisa undertake a vital rhino collaring procedure.