A wombat ate my homework

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re exploring the theme of recovery, delving into times when we’ve stepped in to help save our natural world, and looking at the moments when it’s come to our rescue too.

We’ll be starting off in the sea off the West Coast of Africa where a crew member from the latest David Attenborough series, A Perfect Planet, will take us behind the scenes on an eye-opening rescue mission.

We’ll then meet the Bloom family, whose lives were turned around following a life-changing accident. The road to recovery came in the unexpected form of a mischievous Australian magpie.

Finally, we’ll burrow into the world of wombats and meet a woman who has journeyed through much of life’s ups and downs with these four-legged creatures at her side.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:04.0	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:14.0	People think about poaching of sort of elephants you know in these big species on land
0:22.9	but so much of what happens at sea we just can't see
0:26.6	and that's something that really fought it home
0:28.5	about how little we know about what goes on out there
0:31.9	the crew knew the things they didn't want us to see.
0:42.3	So there were times where I saw, like, a big turtle caught up in the nets
0:46.7	that they were trying to just throw it off the back of the boat before we could see it.
0:50.6	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast.
0:53.0	This week, we're on a rescue mission.
0:55.6	It's very sad to see these sharks being killed on board a boat,
0:59.6	but it's the bigger picture that's more terrifying.
1:02.0	These are top predators in the ocean,
1:04.4	and if you remove those, then whole marine systems can break down.
1:09.8	When it comes to the story of our relationship with the natural world, more often than
1:13.7	not we're the bad guys.
1:15.7	But not always.
1:17.4	In this episode, we're looking at some of the times that we're the good guys, at people
1:21.5	who make it their life's work to undo some of the hurt we've caused our fragile planet
1:25.5	and be part of its recovery.
1:27.8	And we'll be looking at some of the ways the natural world comes to our rescue too.
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