Dodo Heroes

Pen Farthing is the founder of Nowzad, Afghanistan's only official animal sanctuary. When a US soldier rescues six puppies while deployed and can't bring them back home, Pen and his team are on a mission to get them reunited.

Estelle Raballand has formed an incredible bond with a chimp who lives alone on an island and has been dubbed the loneliest chimp in the world. She's determined to find him a companion and thinks she has found the perfect match.

Derrick Campana specializes in designing prosthetics and orthotic braces for animals. Derrick will fit an elephant in Botswana with the world's first elephant orthotic leg brace in hopes that it will save his life.

Animal Defenders International has already helped ban the animal circus industry in over 40 countries. When their organization arrives in Peru, they embark on their biggest animal rescue challenge yet.

Ali Bee and her family spend time rescuing and rehabilitating koalas in their home in Australia. Crikey the koala was a baby that was found alone and very sick. Now, it's time for the family to release him back into the wild.

Katherine Connor runs a sanctuary that rescues, rehabilitates and re-wilds elephants from Thailand's tourism and logging industries. Now she wants to rescue an older elephant, Pang Fai, and release her from chains forever.