Survival with Ray Mears
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| Created by | Ray Mears |
| Presented by | Ray Mears |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Original release | Apr-May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ray Mears' Northern Wilderness |
| Followed by | Wild Britain with Ray Mears |
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Survival with Ray Mears is a 3 part television series hosted by Ray Mears, as he tracks predators in their natural habitats. The series was broadcast by ITV, and was billed as the return of the Survival brand. It was followed by Wild Britain with Ray Mears.
Survival consists of three, hour-long, programmes, focusing on Mears' tracking of the world's top predators. He follows the leopard in Namibia, the bear in British Columbia, and the wolf in Central Idaho.
An underpinning theme is the threats faced by each species: in Idaho the crew arrives with only days to countdown before the wolf’s status as a protected species is lifted, and local farmers indicate their intention to begin hunting them; in British Columbia the impact of global warming on the salmon population is felt by the bear; and in Namibia the uneasy co-existence between leopards and local farmers is highlighted.
In the first episode of Survival, Ray Mears arrives at the 270 square-mile Erindi Game Reserve in Namibia, a territory he describes as ‘one of nature’s richest environments’. The reserve is surrounded by farmland, and leopards that stray onto them risk being shot by farmers anxious to protect their livestock.
He aims to track his favorite predator: the leopard, an elusive big cat which Mears believes is ‘hardly understood.’
He is joined by his duo of wildlife camera men – Isaac Babcock and Shane Moore, and Natasha De Woronin, who runs the Global Leopard Project. De Woronin needs Mear’s tracking skills to help find male leopards, which have so far eluded her. They intend to fit the leopards with radio collars to help build a map of their movements across the reserve.
In the second episode of Survival, Mears travels to the wilderness of British Columbia’s Pacific Coast region. He aims to track grizzly and black bears, and especially the rare Kermode or Spirit bear, notable by its pure white fur. It is thought that there are only 400 alive today.
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