Name: World's Wildest City: Anchorage
Uploaded: 2023-03-17T09:27:59.000Z
Description: Incredible stories of the people and animals that live in one of the most extreme cities on earth.

Incredible stories of the people and animals that live in one of the most extreme cities on earth.

Off the Fence - Licensed

Anchorage is the start of the World's Toughest Sled-Dog Race known as the Iditarod. But there's another canine running wild on these city streets. The urban coyotes cannot resist the Anchorage's sights, smells and constant food supply.

City of Dogs

With more Caribou in Alaska than people, they're the lifeblood of many remote communities. But human expansion, and wild predators, have led to their rapid decline.

Caribou: Extreme Survivors

One of Alaska's most secretive and efficient predators, the Lynx are usually highly elusive... but in Anchorage, houses are being built in the Lynx's territory, forcing them to find new ways to survive on the streets.

City Lynx

As expert hunters, the Bald Eagle is perfectly adapted to life in tough arctic conditions, but in Anchorage, the secret to their survival...is trash

Bald Eagle Rescue

For years, at least four wolfpacks have lived and hunted on the edge of Anchorage. But as the city spreads further into wolf country, they are getting bolder, and attacks on humans are increasing.

Wolves on Main Street

Hundreds of Black Bears live in Anchorage and have found a food source that is much easier to catch than slippery salmon - it's trash. Any it's everywhere. With their brains, brawn and cunning these bears have mastered life in the urban jungle

Bears Behaving Badly

Anchorage is home to an animal renowned as nature's lumberjack and North Americas largest rodent, the beaver. Since humans arrived in Anchorage, many beavers have been forced to live in an urban jungle!

Beaver Lumberjacks

Anchorage is home to a huge number of porcupines, living in the city's streets, gardens and parks. But life on the streets also takes its toll. Porcupines are the city's number one roadkill.

Downtown Porcupines

When Spring comes, so do the Salmon. Travelling an incredible 3500 miles through rivers and streams they are Alaska's hardiest resident. But there is one grizzly hazard they face right at the end of their journey. It's the brown bears.

Brown Bears and Salmon

Anchorage is home over 2000 moose! And these notorious animals are running riot. Crossing busy highways, giving birth in backyards, and even doing battle in suburbia! But life on the streets is fraught with danger in this expanding city.

Moose Mayhem

Most of the year it's encased in ice but when summer hits, Anchorage bursts into life. Animals and plants living this far north have been forced to adapt, but the wildlife built to withstand Alaskan winters, often struggle in the summer heat!

Baked Alaska

Alaska is one of the last true wildernesses on earth. But in Anchorage you don't have to head into to the wild to discover the wildlife. With a city that has so much green space, it means everywhere is fair game for its wild neighbours.

Arctic Refuge

With so many animals living in the city, sometimes they get themselves into trouble. But help is never far away. In Anchorage the wildlife come first, with lots of organisations and people that are working hard to protect them.

World's Wildest City: Anchorage

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