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Eco realities

Animal Planet and WWF, the global conservation organisation, present Planet Action, an eco-reality series, which takes on environmental crises in a new way.

The six-episode series follows an international team of seven amateur environmentalists as they are immersed in six different conservation projects.

Working under the pressure of strict deadlines and tight budgets in remote locations, the team must work together to accomplish each mission.

The journeys range from saving endangered leatherback turtles in Panama to planting 100 trees in the heart of Borneo's rainforest to help orangutans fight for survival.

Team members hail from Venezuela, Vietnam, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, U.K. and U.S.A.

WWF experts are on hand as mentors during each challenge, as the team learns first hand about the realities of conservation while at the same time coping with extreme conditions, unfamiliar cultures and the pressures of protecting wildlife.

The series is being telecast on Animal Planet every Sunday at 9 p.m.

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