Katavi: Africa's Fallen Paradise

Katavi: Africa's Fallen Paradise

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Katavi: Africa's Fallen Paradise

Synopsis

In the heart of Africa’s Great Rift Valley lies Katavi, a little-known national park spanning more than 3,000 square miles of western Tanzania. Here, lions, hippos and crocodiles live more or less in harmony until an unusual climatic cycle transforms the natural dry season into the toughest drought in almost a century.

Episodes

Season 1

  • Sanctuary

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    Rains in Tanzania’s Katavi National Park have stopped much earlier than usual. Lions, hippos and crocodiles jostle in preparation for extreme drought.

  • Purgatory

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    Drought-stricken Katavi becomes chaotic as hippos fight to the death, a rogue lion hunts a family of cubs, and fire and ash sweep across the land.

  • Salvation

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    Katavi gets more hellish by the day. Just when everything is at breaking point, the rains finally return, bringing floods of biblical proportion.