Conservation groups all over the world are bringing animals back from the brink of extinction. I meet a team in Bulgaria working with the creepiest species of them all: vultures. The idea is that they will eventually help mitigate climate change. But how exactly is that supposed to work?

Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Video Editor: Andreas Hyronimus
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read More:

Bird conservation in Europe: https://www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-…

Fund for wild flora and fauna: https://www.fwff.org/about-us/

Rewilding projects:
https://www.rewild.org/wild-about/glo…
https://rewildingeurope.com/

Understanding rewilding:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…
https://link.springer.com/article/10….
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art…

Thumbnail credit: Artemy Voikhansky (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Chapters:
00:00 Poor old vultures
00:54 Introduction to vulture reintroduction
03:08 The birds and the Balkans
05:19 What is an ecosystem exactly?
07:29 Life and death without vultures
09:48 The big release
10:25 Successes and failures of “rewilding”
11:50 Open-air restaurants
13:14 Conclusion