Comedian Bill Bailey turns into an unlikely action hero as he travels to Brazil on a mission to try and save the Jaguar. He starts his journey in a shady Amazonian border town where he is offered illegal jaguar skins by poachers, before leaving the modern world behind to continue his journey with the so-called jaguar people, the Matis Indians, who revere the jaguar.

Bill then flies south to Pantanal, the world’s biggest swamp, where jaguars are viewed as pests for eating cattle-herders domestic herds and hunted like vermin. Bill joins the Jaguar Conservation Fund who have been trying to combat this historical problem with the introduction of the Jaguar Social Program which compensates the farmers financially for their losses. In exchange for compensation, the ranchers refrain from killing the jaguars under any circumstances. The film follows Bill and the JCF on a heart-stopping chase to catch and collar a wild jaguar as part of the Population Ecology Project which aims to monitor and study the big cat and help us understand the various circumstances that threaten the beautiful species from extinction. Bill commented: “My two weeks in Brazil have given me one of the greatest experiences of my life, the chance to see a wild jaguar. Getting up close to this perfectly evolved and beautiful creature was a rare privilege. Hopefully this will shed some light on the secret lives of these majestic animals and maybe even help to save all the jaguars.”