Name: Joanna Page's Wild Life
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-01-06
Rating: 5.0

Overview

Joanna is determined to spend her summer working at Wildlife Aid, one of the UK's leading wildlife hospitals, learning how she can help. With no special treatment, Joanna first must pass the 'smell test', starting with mucky cage and pen cleaning but hoping to progress to animal triage training, helping in the vet room and going out on rescues and releases.

Seasons

Series 1

15 Episodes

2025

E01

Episode 1

1/6/2025·28m

Joanna Page is pursuing her lifelong passion - volunteering at an animal rescue centre. Her induction day includes a big test in the fox pen and feeding a baby badger.

E02

Episode 2

1/7/2025·27m

A fox cub caught in netting is a tricky first rescue experience for Joanna as she continues her training at a busy wildlife centre. But she also gets to help with her first release.

E03

Episode 3

1/8/2025·28m

A magpie with a broken leg is an opportunity for Joanna to learn more skills, and to fall in love with birds, as she trains to be a volunteer at her local wildlife rescue centre.

E04

Episode 4

1/9/2025·27m

Actor Joanna Page continues her training at a local wildlife rescue centre, helping with the rehabilitation and release of a jackdaw, a wood mouse and a tiny vole.

E05

Episode 5

1/10/2025·28m

Joanna Page continues to grow her rescue, rehab and release skills with a tiny chick, a fox and some hoglets as she trains to be a wildlife rescue volunteer.

E06

Episode 6

1/13/2025·27m

A hedgehog, an owl and two tiny swift chicks are among the animals actor Joanna Page helps to treat as she trains to be a volunteer at her local wildlife rescue centre.

E07

Episode 7

1/14/2025·28m

A fledgling little owl is brought in, having been found on the ground. And Joanna's sent to rescue a hedgehog in the garden of a local resident, who's seen it behaving strangely.

E08

Episode 8

1/15/2025·27m

Joanna has her first experience of rehabilitating a bird of prey. At the other end of the scale, she learns how to scruff a mouse and proudly shows her family the video evidence.

E09

Episode 9

1/16/2025·28m

Joanna revisits the fox cubs that came in when she started her training at the wildlife rescue centre. She takes baby pigeons from triage to rehab to release back into the wild.

E10

Episode 10

1/17/2025·27m

As her training intensifies, Joanna Page helps x-ray a tiny bat with a possible fracture, checks over a rescued bunny and releases the fox cubs she's been following from the start.

E11

Episode 11

1/20/2025·28m

Joanna Page's training to be a wildlife rescue volunteer continues with two ten-day-old tawny owls, a red kite and the release of a rehabilitated urban fox.

E12

Episode 12

1/21/2025·27m

Joanna's wildlife training continues with her scruffing a lively fox on the vet room table, and rehabilitating and releasing a dove that was rescued from a burning building.

E13

Episode 13

1/22/2025·27m

As Joanna's summer volunteering at a wildlife rescue centre continues, she treats a badger with an injured foot, a hedgehog with netting caught around its neck and a wounded kestrel.

E14

Episode 14

1/23/2025·28m

Joanna's training ramps up with gull chick brought in by a member of the public, moving some badgers to a soft release site in the woods and being entrusted with some homecare.

E15

Episode 15

1/24/2025·28m

Joanna's training as a volunteer at a wildlife rescue centre comes to an emotional end with some final tests before she finds out whether all her hard work has paid off.