How vultures are changing European mountains

Conservation groups all over the world are bringing animals back from the brink of extinction. I meet a team in Bulgaria working with the creepiest species of them all: vultures. The idea is that they will eventually help mitigate climate change. But how exactly is that supposed to work? Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal Video Editor: Andreas Hyronimus Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #Rewilding #Biodiversity Read More: Bird conservation in Europe: https://www.euronatur.org/en/what-we-... Fund for wild flora and fauna: https://www.fwff.org/about-us/ Rewilding projects: https://www.rewild.org/wild-about/glo... https://rewildingeurope.com/ Understanding rewilding: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... Thumbnail credit: Artemy Voikhansky (CC BY-SA 3.0) Chapters: 00:00 Poor old vultures 00:54 Introduction to vulture reintroduction 03:08 The birds and the Balkans 05:19 What is an ecosystem exactly? 07:29 Life and death without vultures 09:48 The big release 10:25 Successes and failures of "rewilding" 11:50 Open-air restaurants 13:14 Conclusion