The line-up includes
Battle for the Pride, featuring a pride of lions in Botswana — home to some of the largest male lions on the planet — as they fight for survival. For the young cubs to make it to adulthood they must overcome many dangers, from buffalo to wild dogs to other lions. Find out what it takes for a cub to become a lion king.
National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence and filmmakers, Beverly and Dereck Joubert, present
Soul of the Cat, in which they explore the deep connections and parallels between domestic cats and big cats. From pet tabbies to great lions, cats of all sizes are natural-born killers.
Other premieres include
Ultimate Rivals: Cat v. Dog, which reveals the tumultuous relationship between big cats and wild dogs in Africa, as they compete for territory and prey.
Storm Cats follows the lives of two generations of big cats — lions and cheetahs — during the fleeting wet season in arid Botswana. Then,
Return of the Lion takes you on a journey to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park as the first lions are reintroduced to the park since the population was wiped out by civil war in the 1990s.
More than a television event,
Big Cat Month is an extension of the Big Cats Initiative, a long-term commitment by the National Geographic Society to stop poaching, save habitat, and sound the call that big steps are needed to save big cats around the world. This global initiative actively supports on-the-ground conservation projects and education to help stem and eventually reverse the rapid disappearance of big cat populations.
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