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''Last Chance to See'' is a 1989 BBC radio documentary series and its accompanying book, written and presented by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. In the series, Adams and Carwardine travel to various locations in the hope of encountering species on the brink of extinction. The book was published in 1990. In 2009, the BBC broadcast a television follow-up series of the same name, with Stephen Fry replacing the late Adams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC ''Last Chance to See'' – Home – Last Chance to See )〕 ==Radio== In 1985, Douglas Adams went to Madagascar in search of the (possibly extinct) lemur the Aye-aye. The trip was part of a project by the World Wide Fund for Nature and British Sunday newspaper The Observer, sending well-known authors to remote places to seek endangered species and write articles for the paper's magazine, to help raise awareness of ecological issues. Adams was met in Madagascar by zoologist Mark Carwardine (who was working for the WWF at the time). The ''Observer'' project was successful, and Adams and Carwardine developed a radio series around the same concept for BBC Radio 4. Carwardine later said: :"We put a big map of the world on a wall, Douglas stuck a pin in everywhere he fancied going, I stuck a pin in where all the endangered animals were, and we made a journey out of every place that had two pins."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC ''Last Chance to See'' – About – Background )〕 The journeys undertaken were to see: * The aye-aye in Madagascar * The Komodo dragon on the island of Komodo in Indonesia * The kakapo in New Zealand * The mountain gorilla in Zaire * The northern white rhinoceros in Zaire * The Yangtze river dolphin in China * The Rodrigues fruit bat on the island of Rodrigues, Mauritius * The Amazonian manatee in Brazil * The Juan Fernández fur seal on the Juan Fernández Islands, Chile The aye-aye programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 November 1985 as a pilot;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Last Chance to See - Radio - Natural Selection: In Search of the Aye-aye )〕 six further episodes were then broadcast in 1989: * The kakapo - 4 October〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Last Chance to See - Radio - Search for the kakapo )〕 * The Yangtze river dolphin - 11 October〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Last Chance to See - Radio - Search for the Yangtze river dolphin )〕 * The Amazonian manatee - 18 October〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Last Chance to See - Radio - Search for the manatee )〕 * The Rodrigues fruit bat - 25 October〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Last Chance to See - Radio - Search for the Rodrigues fruit bat )〕 * The Komodo dragon - 1 November〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Last Chance to See - Radio - Search for the Komodo dragon )〕 * The Juan Fernández fur seal - 8 November〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=h2g2 - Last Chance To See - the Radio Series and Book )〕 The mountain gorilla and northern white rhino, although the subject of a chapter in the book, did not feature in the radio series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Last Chance to See」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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