Danny and Alice become engaged, and Vanessa finds a way to solve her financial problems at Mara without help from her interfering father. Things look bleak on all fronts, until a surprise confession turns the tide. Danny is implicated in the death of a prize black leopard and gets struck off. Struggling to cope, Alice takes a job as vet at Mara and moves there with Charlotte when she and Danny can't resolve their differences. Du Plessis finally marries Caroline, but extreme tension arises for everyone when Danny's deeply troubled step-daughter Olivia (Liv) turns up unannounced. Series 5 (2010): The fifth series focuses on family relationships. Danny nearly dies due to an accident during a severe storm, and the series ends with Danny and Alice declaring their love for each other. Vanessa, Mara's new owner, creates rivalry by falsely claiming to be in a relationship with Danny. A rabies outbreak threatens to decimate the wild animal population, and a new vet, Alice Collins, arrives at Leopards Den. Rosie marries Max and they move to Cape Town so Rosie can attend vet school. The court rules against them and Evan goes briefly back to England, but he convinces his father to let him return. Series 4 (2009): About a year after Sarah's tragic death, Danny battles for custody of stepson Evan. Shocked and wracked with grief, it looks certain Danny will take Sarah's children back to their father in England until they all agree they want to stay at Leopards Den, and the locals pitch in to help rebuild the fire-ravaged animal hospital. The series ends with a spectacular drought- and wind-driven wildfire, which ruins Rosie's wedding day, and in the chaos Sarah dies trying to save the family's pet cheetah, Jana. Tiger cubs go missing, and Rosie Trevanion gets engaged. Sarah returns briefly to supply teaching at the local school. However, his cooperation turns to hostility when he thinks he's been betrayed. Series 3 (2008): The Trevanions attempt to build an animal hospital at Leopards Den initially a friendly collaboration with Elliot Kriel, the new American owner of Mara. When Dup is nearly killed and Danny seriously injured in a lion attack, Danny's confidence is shattered, and Fatani takes advantage by trying to buy them out in a moment of weakness. A bitter inspector refuses to renew their permit to house wild animals Sarah's difficult mother Caroline arrives and a plane crashes nearby, exposing the family to the threat of deadly disease from a contraband chimpanzee. Mara's owner is killed while illegally hunting a rhino, and the new manager Cedric Fatani seems even more intent on causing mayhem, as he diverts water from the shared spring, causing the death of many Leopards Den animals. Series 2 (2007): The Trevanions struggle financially and attempt to satisfy their first guests' desire for acceptable accommodations and game drives. They face many challenges, including a deadly snakebite, an anthrax outbreak that threatens the reserve's stock starving lions runaway children uninvited guests and competition from Mara, the larger game park next door whose owner, Alex Tate, doesn't share Danny's values and tries to make a move on Sarah. The Trevanions begin settling into life in the African bush, and Danny grows into his role as a gifted vet treating stray cheetahs, elephants, etc. He persuades them to stay and enter into a business partnership to restore the property as a game reserve for wild animals. Arriving at Leopards Den, they meet Anders Du Plessis ("Dup") whose family has owned the property for over 100 years. His wife Sarah suggests a family vacation to Africa to rehabilitate it. Series 1 (2006): The Trevanion family is introduced at home in Bristol, England, where an abandoned vervet monkey is brought into Danny's veterinary surgery.
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