Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jun 9, 2018
Derrick Campana runs Animal OrthoCare and is one of only a handful of people in the world who specialize in designing prosthetics and orthotic braces for animals. Jabu, a 30-year-old bull elephant living in Botswana, has a life-threatening leg injury. His caretakers, Doug and Sandi Groves who run Living with Elephants Foundation, have reached out to Derrick in the hopes that he can help. Chi Chi is a quadriplegic dog rescued from the meat trade in South Korean who now lives with her loving owners in Phoenix. After having all four of her legs amputated, Derrick built four prosthetic legs so Chi Chi can walk and run again. Derrick meets with Chi Chi to adjust her prosthetics and check her progress before flying to Botswana to fit Jabu with the world's first elephant orthotic leg brace – which he hopes can save his life.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jun 16, 2018
Crikey the koala was just a baby when he was found all alone and very sick on Australia's Magnetic Island. But luckily for Crikey there's a remarkable family there who spend their time rescuing koalas and rehabilitating them in their home so that they can eventually go back to the wild. Ali Bee, a veterinarian with Magnetic Island Koala Hospital, and her family are fighting to save Australia's rapidly declining koala population. And she, her husband Tim, and their 10-year-old daughter Izzy, took Crikey in a year ago. Izzy became Crikey's surrogate mother and helped nurse him back to health. Now, the Bee family is preparing for the emotionally difficult but important and inspiring task of releasing Crickey back to his natural habitat. Saying goodbye won't be easy, for both Izzy and Crikey.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jun 23, 2018
Sebastian Fluieras, a U.S. soldier deployed in Afghanistan, finds a litter of six puppies and wants to rescue them – but it's against military rules for him to care for them on the base. Sebastian turns to British Marine Pen Farthing and his girlfriend Hannah Surowinski for help. Pen and Hannah run Nowzad, Afghanistan's first and only official animal sanctuary which houses over 150 animals rescued from the streets of Kabul. Pen and Hannah's goal is to rescue and transport the puppies from Afghanistan to Texas, where they'll be reunited with the U.S. soldier who saved them.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jun 30, 2018
Pepe the spider monkey has lived his entire life on a short chain in a Peruvian circus. At the same circus, six lions, including a female lion named Kiara and her two cubs, are kept in cages and forced to perform. Animal Defenders International (ADI), led by Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips, arrives in Peru to rescue the animals. Their organization has already helped ban the animal circus industry in over 40 countries – and they are determined for Pepe, Kiara and her cubs to live a life free of chains and cages.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jul 7, 2018
Katherine Connor and her five children run and live within a one-of-a-kind elephant sanctuary, Boon Lott Elephant Sanctuary, which rescues and rehabilitates elephants from Thailand's tourism and logging industries. Katherine's latest project is to rescue the majestic Pang Fai, an elephant who has spent her lifetime logging and in chains. She desperately wants to retire Pang Fai and bring her live out her life with other elephants and her family at the sanctuary, but her owner depends on Pang Fai for income and isn't sure that he's willing to give her up.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jul 14, 2018
Ponso lives alone on an island in the Ivory Coast and has been dubbed the loneliest chimp in the world. In 2015, chimpanzee expert Estelle Raballand met Ponso and the two now share an incredible bond. Estelle's long-term goal is to set up a chimp sanctuary in the Ivory Coast where Ponso and other chimps can live freely with each other – but in the meantime, she's determined to find a companion for Ponso. Estelle thinks Nikla, a chimp recently rescued, might be the perfect match.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jun 1, 2019
Sam Brittain and Melanie Croce run Seal Rescue Ireland, the only seal rescue in the entire country; alongside devoted volunteers, they do everything to save and rehabilitate orphaned and injured seals so that they can return to the wild.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jun 8, 2019
After rescuing abused and neglected horses, Ashley DiFelice started Twist of Fate Farm and Sanctuary. Now, she and her 5-year-old son Deacon are welcoming two dwarf ponies.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jun 15, 2019
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rescue baby animals in Kenya. They saved elephant Malkia when she was six months old, now she's ready to be released back into the wild.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jun 22, 2019
Seven-year-old social media sensation Roman McConn and his mom, Jen, have saved over 1,500 shelter dogs by connecting them with adopters around the country. They have one month to find homes for over 100 shelter dogs, including Noah, Rocky and Migo.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2019 (61 min)
Theresa and Tony Scruff Matthews turned their dream retirement home in Australia into a full-time kangaroo rescue; they're ready to release kangaroos Lisa, Luna, and Barbie, but an injury might threaten one of them returning to the wild.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jul 6, 2019
With the help of her two daughters and husband Phil, Donna Stepan runs Sleepy Burrow Wombat Sanctuary, the largest wombat sanctuary in the world. When she takes in a new orphaned baby in critical condition, the next 24 hours become a fight for its life.