Mara: Rebirth
Discover the Mara's secret life after the wildebeest migration. Follow newborns, fierce lions, and shifting ecosystems in this captivating journey of survival.
The Mara is probably the most diverse and important savanna ecosystem on the planet. It’s so special because it is the meeting place of migrations from the south and the north-east. This two-part mini series tells the story of what happens when the famous wildebeest migration departs. The absence of the wildebeest is the time when many of the Mara’s resident animals give birth to their young. This is a story about birth and growth, a factual look into what happens most of the year in this world-famous African wilderness.
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The Mara is probably the most diverse and important savanna ecosystem on the planet. It’s so special because it is the meeting place of migrations from the south and the north-east. This two-part mini series tells the story of what happens when the famous wildebeest migration departs. The absence of the wildebeest is the time when many of the Mara’s resident animals give birth to their young. This is a story about birth and growth, a factual look into what happens most of the year in this world-famous African wilderness.
E1The Emergence
Nov 21, 2025
Part 1 of our series starts with the dust of the disappearing migration as it heads off across the river and leaves. Behind them, hundreds if not thousands of other animals cannot move, or won’t move, because they are locked into territories, invisible barriers that say to them, ‘leave your bubble at your peril’. This is their story. It is the story about what happens between September and the following July. Nine months of wildebeest-free Mara.
E2The Awakening
Nov 21, 2025
Part 2 sets the scene, now the zebras wander off, a striped echo of part one. If the first episode is dusted in browns and yellows, this is green as the landscape changes and the rain turn again, rising rivers, making it difficult for everyone again, flooding, rushing waters in a raging torrent. Paradise it may be, but it is a harsh paradise. As the rains clear, we catch up with another character introduced in the first episode, our serval mother that had her den flooded; but she reveals that she has survived. And so has her cub – a miracle under these circumstances.
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The Mara is probably the most diverse and important savanna ecosystem on the planet. It’s so special because it is the meeting place of migrations from the south and the north-east. This two-part mini series tells the story of what happens when the famous wildebeest migration departs. The absence of the wildebeest is the time when many of the Mara’s resident animals give birth to their young. This is a story about birth and growth, a factual look into what happens most of the year in this world-famous African wilderness.
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