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Guest presenter Matthew Hill presents a special programme focussing on tigers. Matthew travelled to Tadoba National Tiger Reserve in India for Saving Species. There, he investigated a story about tigers that involves a local Indian community, a retired heart surgeon from Bristol and a remarkable education programme to conserve tigers, not kill them.

This week, Brett Westwood talks to Karen Partridge about the alarming situation facing lions in Africa and a controversial reintroduction programme. We also have the second in our series of 'Ladybird Book Britain', as well as a Christmassy wildlife news roundup with Kelvin Boot.

Brett Westwood presents. We feature a special report about Sloths from the southern most tip of the Caribbean off the coast of Panama. Also in the programme we have the first of our special Ladybird Book series. Chris Sperring takes the first editions of these books about Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter - published in 1959 - and explores what species have gone, what have arrived and what hasn't changed. And with the news of two species of sharks attacking holiday makers in the Red Sea what does this do to the efforts to save sharks from extinction?