蜜芽传媒

Rob Newman tells the story of a species we've lost forever, and explores our role in their extinction.

Steller's Sea Cow was a gentle giant of the Bering Sea in the Northern Pacific, a nine-meter-long relative of the Dugong and the Manatee.

This is a story of swaying forests of kelp; insatiable urchins covering the sea-floor; families of sea-otters, displaced by hunting, and a growing fur-trade which threatened them all. When a delicate ecosystem gets thrown out of balance, the effects can be far-reaching, and devastating.

Producer Emily Knight

A 蜜芽传媒 Bristol production first broadcast on Radio 4 in November 2019.