Brief introduction

   Ray Mears explores seven different Chinese landscapes including lush rainforest, high plateaus, limestone karsts and dramatic mountains. He discovers the awesome wildlife that thrives there from pandas, snow leopards, snub-nosed monkeys and orphaned baby Asian elephants.  Along the way Ray discovers the close relationship that local people have with the land.

His adventure starts in one of the world’s greenest cities Beijing! He meets the city’s raptor rescue team before exploring The Great Wall of China where he discovers plans to return wild leopards to the region.

In China’s tropical jungle at Xishuangbanna in Yunnan province Ray discovers China’s largest animal – the wild Asian Elephant – and the efforts being made to re-wild rescued elephants.

Ray meets the yak herders of Qinghai Province and tracks snow leopards across the Tibetan plateau before discovering the Brown Bears of Xianggu monastery.  

At China’s Panda Research and Conservation Centre Ray meets the team behind the re-wilding programme, and tracks radio collared pandas through the remote cloud forests.

Ray follows the Li river through the karst landscape of Guanxi Province, discovering fishing with cormorants and the spectacular caves below ground.  

In Shangri-La Ray discovers snub nosed monkeys in Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve before visiting the remote village of Tongle where local medicine men share their plant hunting secrets.