We take the listeners on a world tour presenting five endangered animals from five continents: the numbat, the spectacled bear, the mountain gorilla, the Mediterranean monk seal and the Caucasian leopard. 

Sources of information: Bildatlas Bedrohte Tierarten, by Kerstin Viering and Roland Knauer from Naumann & Göbel Verlagsgesellschaft; World Wildlife Fund; The Numbat Project; Wikipedia; The National Geographic

Cover art: "Numbat" by Martin Pot licences under GNU Free Documentation License.