Expedition Tiger

Could a hidden Himalayan kingdom hold new hope?

Join the first ever expedition to venture high into the Himalayas in search of big cats. Closed to outsiders for years, Bhutan is a forgotten world. No one knows how many tigers prowl the jungles and mountains here, but if the rumours of a healthy population are true, it will give credence to a proposed 2000-mile long ‘tiger conservation corridor’: an ambitious project that would allow the last remaining big cats to move freely between Burma, India and Nepal. Moving through the jungle on elephant back, the experts deploy the latest camera-trapping technology and FBI finger- printing software to identify individuals. A specially trained sniffer dog tracks down tiger dung and thermal imaging cameras spot tigers at night. Heading to the peaks, the team climb gorges, shoot rapids and live with yak herders. From leach-ridden swamps to breathless, icy summits, nowhere is out of bounds.

Presenters: Alan Rabinowitz, Gordon Buchanan (Lost Land of the Volcano, Big Cat Diary), Steve Backshall (Expedition Guyana, Expedition Borneo, Lost Land of the Jaguar), Claudia Wultsch, George McGavin (Lost Land of the Volcano, Life in the Undergrowth).