Slippery customers: UK rewilding efforts aim to stop eels sliding into extinction

Legislation has seen trafficking rates plummet but the critically endangered fish faces manmade obstacles on its migration route Podcast: Inside the world of wildlife trafficking An unusual rewilding mission is under way just off the M5 motorway. Eels the length of a little finger have finished their 6,600km (4,000-mile) migration from the salty Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic to the brackish water of the Bristol Channel. They have spent two years floating on ocean currents and are hoping to settle...