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The motor running in the usa — although we definitely don't recommend trying that with your own four—legged friend. now we're going back to 2016, when carmen went to peru tojoin a team returning rescue bears of the wild. the andean bear is the only native bear species to south america. it's on the endangered list because of hunting and habitat loss. but here, in the chaparri area, they're doing something about it. this is peru's first private conservation area, set up jointly with the local community in 2000. it tries to rehabilitate rescued bears that have been captured illegally and mist...

Releasing a bear back into the wild — and i'm lucky enough to be able to watch it happen. four—year—old alisa was born in this reserve. so this is alisa's mother next door? yes. her mother asulina was rescued from captivity, where she'd been kept as a house pet. sadly, she would never survive in the outside world. we're gonna sedate alisa. 0k. and we're gonna up a gps collar for her. the gps collar will now allowjuan to track elisa when she's released. we're gonna charge the dart. juan prepares a tranquilliser that he'll shoot into elisa's muscles. his shot hits the spot and elisa seems ...

Colla rwhy we are going to do a test, the collarwhy put the collar on, see if it fits. it is a race against the clock before the bear wakes up. 0k, against the clock before the bear wakes up. ok, so is that thejob done? bear wakes up. ok, so is that the job done? so what now? we shut the door and then... wait until tomorrow and then tomorrow we will release her. so it is a beautiful morning and today is the day we are going to release elisa into the world. iam going to release elisa into the world. i am super excited. is incredible to be close to a bear. there is no gate, there

And elisa seems confused. 0h... finally, elisa is sedated. now we are going to do a test the collar on her. put the collar on, see if it fits. uh-huh. it's a race against the clock before the bear wakes up. ok, so is that thejob done? hm—mm. so what now? we shut the door and then...? wait until tomorrow, and tomorrow, we gonna release her. 0k.

The coronavirus outbreak has had a devastating impact on animal welfare groups. back in april, rajan spoke to a few to see how they were doing. so many people lose theirjob abroad. we're clearly not going to have donations. so if things got really bad, we could be facing, you know, having to sell up. as you know, there's a restriction — what is called 'stay home'. but the population we're working with, a population of mountain gorillas that is used to humans. so it means if you lose one day monitoring, it means something else can happen — like trauma or snares or sickness — that we might...