Wild Journeys

A brand new three-part wildlife documentary series, shot in high definition film, tracing the footsteps of Ireland's migrating wildlife as they travel the earth in a never-ending battle for survival.

This brand new series features Ireland's most heroic wildlife travellers and the incredible journeys they carry out every single year. From the 20,000km flown annually by the Manx Shearwaters to the transatlantic voyages of our eels and salmon, Wild Journeys follows these voyagers to the ends of the earth, showing the extraordinary challenges they meet and revealing the magnificent landscapes they visit en-route.

The series publicises the vital work of Irish scientists as they tag and track the animals across the globe and reveals the amazing network of wildlife that links all life across the continents; how global warming directly affects our Barnacle Geese as they struggle to cope with a rapidly changing Arctic and the extraordinary distances covered by our marine animals.

As these remarkable creatures prepare to leave either from or to Ireland, Wild Journeys is there to show us their Irish lives and chart each step of their epic journey. Never again will viewers take for granted an exhausted salmon leaping at a weir or the ragged formations of geese heading into the Atlantic.

Filmed over two years this series engages some Ireland's most passionate naturalists who have daily contact with Ireland's natural world, from wildlife rangers and researchers to farmers, fishermen and wildlife enthusiasts. With a world-class wildlife production team and filmed in High Definition, Wild Journeys will delight, entertain and inform at every turn.

Episodes

Programme 1

Kicking off the series will be the 50 ton leviathans that show up on our Southern coast every winter - the Humpback Whale. We will follow Pádraig Whooley of the Irish Whale & Dolphin group to the Cape Verde Islands in his attempt to discover where these giants breed and we will showcase the extremely rare footage of the acrobatic Wexford whale that hit the news in January this year. The show will visit the breeding grounds of the lesser known Manx Shearwaters who can clock up 20,000km each year and we will track the beloved Irish Salmon all the way to its spawning grounds in the Connemara hills.