Is It Too Late To Save Orangutan's? | 1,000 Days For The Planet

The Sedna 4 Team travels to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, where much of the biodiversity has been removed in exchange for monoculture, creating habitat loss for wildlife, like the Sumatran elephants. Arriving in the Province of Riau, National Parks have been recently established to protect the remaining biodiversity and wildlife, with the WWF and local conservationists and biologists, working with them to show which areas are safe to migrate to and which aren’t. The team then travels to Borneo where habitat loss continues to be a problem for the Gibbons. They go to Kalaweit, the worlds largest private Gibbon Protection Project. By re-creating natural living conditions for the animals they can learn to socialize with fellow Gibbons and learn to rehabituate. Due to continual loss of habitat, many of the Gibbons find Kalaweit to be their permanent home, which is why Kalaweit is now working on habitat protection by buying land to preserve it.

On the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia, an iconic species is barely hanging on. Orangutans are considered critically endangered. The massive wave of deforestation for oil palm production shows no sign of slowing down. In the heart of the tropical forest, volunteers do what they can to halt the carnage and rehabilitate the last few survivors of an uneven fight against a corrupt and merciless authority. A crew of mariners, scientists and filmmakers are followed as they cast off on the Sedna IV, an oceanographic schooner, to sail around the world exploring the beauty of nature, how ecosystems work and conservation challenges facing the planet. Content licensed by Cineflix to Little Dot Studios.

Aurélien Brulé moved to Indonesia to save the gibbons--small tree-dwelling monkeys whose native forests are being ravaged by oil palm production and who are then often captured and kept as pets, or held captive in deplorable conditions.. A crew of mariners, scientists and filmmakers are followed as they cast off on the Sedna IV, an oceanographic schooner, to sail around the world exploring the beauty of nature, how ecosystems work and conservation challenges facing the planet. Content licensed by Cineflix to Little Dot Studios.

Large-scale deforestation of tropical forests for palm oil production is a growing problem that threatens the survival of huge numbers of animals and plants, many already on the verge of extinction. In Indonesia, almost two million hectares of forest disappear every year. A crew of mariners, scientists and filmmakers are followed as they cast off on the Sedna IV, an oceanographic schooner, to sail around the world exploring the beauty of nature, how ecosystems work and conservation challenges facing the planet. Content licensed by Cineflix to Little Dot Studios.

We are changing our world and species are disappearing. We can't just do things and not think about the long-term consequences. Human impact on biodiversity has greatly increased and the massive expansion of civilization has caused nature to suffer. All over the earth plants and animals are struggling to coexist. Can we change this before it's too late?

The Sedna 4 team travels to Komodo island in Indonesia to learn more about the infamous Komodo dragons. As they are joined by biologists Achmad and Denny, they will work to undertake a a population census of the dragons on a number of islands in the area. The team locates the dragons to track their population for conservation purposes, as well as interview some of the locals to understand how the villagers and dragons manage to coexist. Next, the Sedna 4 team travels to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. On the island of Grand Cayman, the population explosion has reduced the habitat of already threatened species, such as the rare blue iguana. Considered extinct in the wild, biologist Fred has made it his mission to save them from extinction. Elsewhere in the Caribbean, some Indo-pacific fish were accidentally released into the sea back in the 1990’s. This lionfish has reproduced and populated the Caribbean at an alarming rate, causing other species to decline up to 80%. The team meets with local divers to see how they keep the lionfish