Guardians of the Wild

The Lilayi Elephant Nursery near Lusaka in Zambia is home to four orphan elephants. The two oldest have been there since they were just a few months old. These boisterous babies are out-growing the nursery and it is time to move to big school.

Kinda baboons have turned their backs on the aggressive displays of dominance usually associated with these large monkeys and lead altogether more peaceful lives.

Madonna is the first Kinda baboon ever to be studied from birth to adulthood and now, critically, she is looking for a mate. Only recently identified as a species in their own right, Kinda baboons are little known and little understood.

Across Africa 97 black rhinos have been killed for their horns. In 1997 the species was declared officially extinct in Zambia, but now, thanks to an ambitious reintroduction plan, they are back.