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Peter Elliot, Hollywood actor and film director, follows genetic researchers from the biodiversity department at Cardiff University who are trying to save endangered species from extinction.
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1. Resurrecting the Alpaca
In the first programme Peter joins the team in Peru where alpaca farming is crucial to the local economy. The once soft and luxurious alpaca hair has become degraded by years of over-breeding and the scientists' task is to identify the gene associated with the finest hair. Obtaining samples from the animals at high altitude and in unpredicatable weather is no easy matter though.
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2. Gorillas in the Gabon
Peter Elliot meets up with the team as they attempt to solve a mysterious murder and develop a strategy for the conservation of the western lowland gorilla in Gabon, West Africa.
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