Snow Leopard
Panthera uncia
Its tail is nearly as long as its body — a balance pole on cliff ledges, and a scarf in blizzards.
High Asian mountains
Field notes
The wild is still out there, and it is stranger than you remember.
Close portraits of animals that live beyond fences — where they survive, how they behave, and what it takes to keep them.
- 8.7M
- species estimated on Earth
- 69%
- average wildlife decline since 1970
- 17%
- of land under protection
Creature files
Vulnerable
African Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Herds talk in infrasound rumbles that travel for kilometres, felt through the feet before they're heard.
Savanna & forest
Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Males sing structured songs that whole ocean populations learn and revise season by season.
All major oceans
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macao
Pairs bond for life and eat clay from riverbanks to neutralise toxins in unripe seeds.
Neotropical rainforest