Mission: survival

Peter Young and his camera sure have gone places. Up that mountain, down that valley, deep into that forest and over to that island. Young estimates he spent about 120 days behind the viewfinder on documentary series Fight for the Wild. Often, he was a crew of one in the back of beyond, filming threatened native birdlife and the people trying to save them. Then came two years of editing.

You can hear an amused sigh of exhaustion when he talks about glueing it all together. “I hate to think how many hours