NATURE: Natural World: Lobo, 8pm, BBC2
ANOTHER fascinating and beautifully shot documentary from the Natural World team, tonight brings us the story of Lobo – the wolf that changed America.
In the autumn of 1893, Canadian trapper and naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton rode into New Mexico on a mission to shoot a marauding cattle-killer, a wolf nicknamed Lobo which was said to be killing a cow a day.
With a $1000 bounty on offer to trap and shoot the culprit, Seton thought the hunt would be easy money.
However, he didn’t expect a job that was supposed to take just a few weeks, to run into months until his elusive quarry was tracked and caught.
This true story, narrated and presented by David Attenborough, is based on Seton’s diaries and photographs and details how Lobo outwitted the hunter at every opportunity, but more importantly, how the experience changed Seton’s life and was a turning point for nature conservation in America.
