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12. Project Shark
March 2, 2026
In Indonesia, shark fishing has been a long-standing economic driver in fishing villages--but a recent shift to ecotourism is hoping to provide a new incentive for fishermen to become stewards of marine wildlife.
11. The Comeback Cat
February 2, 2026
With the Iberian lynx near extinction, biologist Rodrigo Serra and his team are leading a bold conservation mission to reintroduce this iconic predator to the wild, risking it all to restore balance to the ecosystem.
10. The Butterly Effect
January 5, 2026
Around the world, rural communities often have to choose between protecting the neighboring forests that help sustain them or cutting them down to grow crops or harvest wood to generate income. But on the island of Zanzibar, some are farming a crop that helps keep the tropical ecosystem intact: butterflies.
9. A City in Nature
December 1, 2025
In Singapore, architects and city designers have long strived to create a green utopia--but recent innovations have started to make that vision possible, leaning more into building with native biodiversity at the forefront of urban design.
8. Untamed Detroit
November 3, 2025
As Detroit's population declined and nature reclaimed the city's vacant spaces, wild carnivores like coyotes, raccoons, and skunks are now returning and making themselves at home. Ecologist Nyeema Harris studies how these opportunistic predators and scavengers are adapting to urban life, uncovering practical ways for humans and wildlife to live together peacefully.
7. Bat Vax
October 6, 2025
As a deadly fungal disease sweeps across North America, wiping out millions of bats, scientists are pioneering a bold new strategy to protect these special creatures, conducting field trials of an innovative vaccine, racing to bolster bat populations before white-nose syndrome wipes them out.
6. Rhino Ops
September 1, 2025
In South Africa, at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, the rate of poaching has reached a breaking point, with more than 300 killed in just one year.?The park has decided to step in and take drastic measures, undertaking their largest dehorning mission to date, aiming to dehorn over 1000 rhinos in a single operation.
5. Puffling Patrol
August 4, 2025
Residents of a small village off the coast of Iceland share their island with the largest colony of Atlantic Puffins. But when newly fledged young puffins confuse the town's artificial lights for moonlight and fail to find their way to sea, the town gets their schoolchildren to help collect and rehab the "pufflings"--and then toss the young birds off seaside cliffs!
4. Thunder & Fire
July 7, 2025
First Nation tribes are reviving their cultural and spiritual connection to buffalo by rebuilding a herd that once shared their land. By reigniting traditional land management practices like prescribed fire, the Osage support the herd as it continues to grow, which in turn, restores natural balance that helps the entire prairie ecosystem thrive.
3. Significant Otters
June 2, 2025
Sea otters are back, and their return is restoring an entire ecosystem. Marine ecologists Brent Hughes and Kat Beheshti reveal how seagrass planting efforts in Monterey Bay, along with a healthy population of crab-eating otters, have transformed and stabilized this important ecosystem.
2. Reclaiming Bear River
May 12, 2025
The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has been landless ever since they suffered the worst massacre in U.S. history in 1863. Over 150 years later, the Tribe has purchased their ancestral homeland with a vision to return it back to nature.
1. Building for Birds
April 7, 2025
Millions of birds pass through our yards during their bi-annual migrations, but they face an invisible killer along the way: glass windows. In the US alone, an estimated one billion birds die each year when they collide with windows. Now, two organizations help pave the way to a bird-friendly future.
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Where to Watch Wild Hope
Wild Hope is available for streaming on the HHMI Tangled Bank Studios website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Wild Hope on demand at Prime Video and Amazon.
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Premiere DateJuly 31, 2023
