Dodo Heroes

Derrick Campana first began building prosthetics for humans, but one day that all changed when he built his first prosthetic for a dog.

A woman and her family spend their time rescuing and rehabilitating koalas in their home in Australia; Crikey the koala, a baby found alone and very sick, becomes well enough to release back into the wild.

British Marine Pen Farthing is the founder of Nowzad, Afghanistan’s only official animal sanctuary; when a U.S. soldier rescues six puppies while deployed and can’t bring them back home, Pen and his team are on a mission to get them reunited.

Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips, two of the most effective animal crusaders in the world, found Animal Defenders International in 1990 and target the abuse of animals in circuses.

Katherine Conner drops out of school at 16 to work as a professional dancer in London’s West End, her life’s dream; at the age of 21, while on vacation in Thailand, she meets a baby elephant named Boon Lott that changes her life forever.

Chimp expert Estelle Raballand has formed an incredible bond with Ponso, a chimp who lives alone on an island and has been dubbed the loneliest chimp in the world. She’s determined to find him a companion and thinks she has found the perfect match.