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Mapping the World
Season 36 · Episode 17
Biodiversity: SOS animals
0.012mMay 30, 2025
"The Underside of the Cards" looks at a drama that is playing out silently before our eyes: the extinction of countless species of animals. Entire swaths of wildlife are disappearing at an unprecedented rate on every continent. What are the major sources of disappearance? What does the global map of threatened species reveal? And what else can we save?
Episodes
- Episode 1From the Bering Strait to the Arctic: Russian ambitions
- Episode 2Sea of Japan: sensitive area
- Episode 3The Dnieper: a river in the Russia–Ukraine war
- Episode 4Sinai: a desert between Egypt and Gaza
- Episode 5When the sea rises: a global issue
- Episode 6The Vatican: what diplomatic role?
- Episode 7Russia–North Korea: a long history
- Episode 8China: power of war or peace?
- Episode 9United Arab Emirates: understanding the new Middle East
- Episode 10Smartphones: a power issue
- Episode 11France and its Overseas Territories: complex territories
- Episode 12Germany: change of era
- Episode 13Poland: new European leader?
- Episode 14Russian economy: resilient or declining?
- Episode 15The Gulf of Guinea: a strategic and threatened crossroads
- Episode 16Africa: France at half mast
- Episode 17Biodiversity: SOS animals
- Episode 18China: the big breakdown
- Episode 19Space: in the process of privatization?
- Episode 20At the borders of Russia: fear of war
- Episode 21European defense: the great rearmament
- Episode 22Syria: what future after the Assad dictatorship?
- Episode 23Azerbaijan: hydrocarbons and dictatorship
- Episode 24Sudan: forgotten war
- Episode 25Artificial intelligence: a global competition
- Episode 26Europeans and British: what reunion?
- Episode 27Morocco: between Europe and Africa
- Episode 28Norway: Russia's worrying neighbor
- Episode 29Saudi Arabia: MBS places itself in the center