• LAST LIONESS

  • Tuesday 5 June at 10:00AM
  • Nat Geo Wild

DESCRIPTION

A haunting call echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn't been for years. She has no pride, no support - she alone must safeguard her own survival. Her name is Lady Liuwa, and she is the Last Lioness.

Isolated by a scourge of illegal trophy hunting that wiped out the rest of her species in the region, Lady Liuwa is the only known resident lion surviving on Zambia's Liuwa Plain. For four years, cameraman Herbert Brauer watched her lonely life unfold, until, in her solitude, she reached out to him for companionship.

But Herbert knows he is not the companion this lonely lioness needs - she should be amongst her own kind. Now, in May of 2009, plans for a male lion translocation have come through, and there is hope for ending her isolation. Lady Liuwa will no longer be the Last Lioness - find out how she copes as lions return to her plain for the first time in over five years.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Last Lioness: Episode 1
    Cameraman Herbert Brauer offers a sensitive portrait of Lady Liuwa, documenting the plight of the last lioness on Zambia's Liuwa Plain.
  • Last Lioness: Episode 999
    Cameraman Herbert Brauer offers a sensitive portrait of Lady Liuwa, documenting the plight of the last lioness on Zambia's Liuwa Plain.
  • Last Lioness
    Cameraman Herbert Brauer offers a sensitive portrait of Lady Liuwa, documenting the plight of the last lioness on Zambia's Liuwa Plain.
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    Tuesday 5 June at 10:00AM - Nat Geo Wild
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