Three years in the making, HOTSPOTS follows Conservation International’s president and author Dr. Russell A. Mittermeier on his journey to assess key biological hotspots around the world — areas at greatest risk of extinction. The two-part series takes viewers to multiple locations throughout New Zealand, the United States, Peru, Brazil, Madagascar and Chile's remote Easter Island to capture the precious array of life at stake.The documentary takes a sobering yet hopeful look at conservation biology: the trench warfare, the subtle policy decisions, the slippery slopes, the unknown dimensions and the real creatures whose lives hang in the balance.