After the devastating loss of Leopard’s Den, the family are split across continents. Caroline, Liv and a heavily pregnant Alice are in the UK, while Danny and Du Plessis have remained in South Africa, trying to raise enough money to buy a new reserve and make a fresh start.

Times are hard however, and when we first join Danny and Du Plessis they are working at the Big Five Animal Park in less than ideal circumstances. Du Plessis works in the gift shop whilst Danny works as a jobbing vet. However Danny finds it difficult to get on with his boss, Ed Lynch, as the two of them constantly clash over veterinary decisions, particularly over an elephant that keeps trying to escape.

Episode 2

Danny returns to South Africa with Caroline, Liv and Charlotte. They are all excited to be back and are looking forward to seeing their new home, Clearwater Farm. However their excitement turns to dismay when they discover that Du Plessis hasn’t lifted a finger since Danny left, and the place is falling apart. Liv is delighted to see Thabo again, but the feeling doesn’t seem to be mutual, since Thabo is very awkward around her.

Episode 3

Danny has been preparing his pitch for an Endangered Species Project. JLW, a pharmaceutical company, are looking to fund an environmental project and the family hope that this grant money will enable them to buy Leopard’s Den and Mara. However the morning of the meeting lurches from crisis to disaster when Danny and Du Plessis crash their jeep on their way back from collecting a troublesome lion. Caroline has been frantically preparing their business plan and she’s desperately worried when Danny and Du Plessis don’t return in time.

Covered in mud, late and with the lion in tow, Danny, Du Plessis and Caroline finally make it to their all important meeting. On arrival they are surprised to see Ed Lynch, Danny’s old boss from the Big Five, who explains that he too is pitching for the grant in order to create an elephant sanctuary. Danny and Du Plessis are highly cynical about Ed’s project, believing that it sounds more focused on money than on animal welfare.

Episode 4

Caroline is still furious at what she sees as a betrayal of Du Plessis when Danny agrees to work with his old rival Ed Lynch. But later, when a bush fire spirals out of control and a leopard is badly injured, Caroline has to help Lynch perform an operation on the animal, and she begins to see another side to him. However, one of Lynch's decisions proves to have devastating consequences for the whole family.

Episode 5

The family is still estranged after Caroline moves back to the Clearwater House with Du Plessis, who appears to be showing signs of a major breakdown and is convinced that he has seen the ghost of Peeters in the town. Meanwhile, Ed and Danny try to rescue some animals from a closing zoo but their attempts to cut corners may lead to regret. A concerned Caroline confronts Du Plessis, who reveals the truth about the circumstances of Peeters's death. But later, when she digs deeper, her discoveries are a shock to everyone.

Episode 6

Danny is in prison accused of murdering Peeters, and Du Plessis is determined to prove his friend's innocence. He hopes that CCTV will provide an alibi for Danny, but all it actually reveals is Ed acting suspiciously on the night of the murder. Meanwhile, with everyone preoccupied, Rosie is trying to run everything on her own - until things go badly wrong.

Episode 7

With Danny away and Du Plessis undertaking an stretch of community service, Ed is left in charge of running the Endangered Species Project. He meets a beautiful stranger called Kim Ferreira, who tells him that she has a lion that carries the Barbary gene. Du Plessis arrives in time to hear Ed ask Kim out, and is incredulous when she accepts - while Ed is furious with Du Plessis for saying that Kim must have an ulterior motive. Elsewhere, Fatani attempts to help Liv and Thabo with the animal census, but he is woefully bad at it.

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Photograph shows Stephen Tompkinson and the rest of the cast of Wild At Heart Series 7