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Last Chance to See
《最后一眼》Last Chance to See，最早是由Douglas Noël Adams及Mark Carwardine于1990年出版的一本介绍濒危物种的书籍。 1985年由英国的《观察家》杂志发起，它们决定派遣动物学家马克·卡沃汀及作家道格拉斯·亚当斯前往马达加斯加，寻找一种濒危的狐猴型下目生物──指猴。这个计划后来发展成对全球多个濒危物种的搜索及介绍，当中包括位于印尼科莫多岛的科莫多龙、位于扎伊尔的大猩猩及白犀、位于新西兰的鸮鹦鹉、中国的白鱀豚、罗德里格岛上的罗得里格斯狐蝠及一些其他物种等。 基于本书及其衍生计划的记录片于2007年开始制作，并于2009年4月完成，10月在BBC2台首映。
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine set out to discover how the lugubrious Amazonian manatee, a freshwater mammal, has survived the last two decades, but Stephen breaks his arm deep in the Amazon rainforest.
On a journey across Africa towards the war-torn Congo, the travellers encounter chimpanzees, gorillas and elephants, but are there any northern white rhinos still alive in the wild? The news is not good but there is some hope in the remarkable project under way to save the black rhino in Kenya.
In Madagascar the travellers encounter the biggest and the smallest lemurs on earth. But they are searching for the aye-aye, a peculiar lemur which, according to local legend, brings death to those who encounter it.
This week's program is ostensibly about Komodo dragons, but Stephen and Mark start their travels in Malaysian Borneo - and that's where they experienced their personal highs and lows of the trip.
In New Zealand Stephen and Mark look for the last kakapo, a fat, flightless parrot.
In a dramatic conclusion to the series, the travelers have a close encounter with grey whales and meet the deadly Humboldt squid in a search for the mighty blue whale, the biggest creature that has ever lived.
