Close Encounters! Filming Grizzly Bears for #SecretsOfOurLivingPlanet
By Paul Williams (published on the BBC programme page) 'Secrets of Our Living Planet' continues on Sunday 7pm on BBC2. This time Chris travels to North America to witness the annual miracle of the...
View ArticleCute! Why this wild baby lynx needs a caterpillar #SecretsOfOurLivingPlanet...
BBC 2, 7pm, Sunday 1st July 'Secrets of Our Living Planet' The Magical Forest Working with cameraman David Wright and Jen Vashon of Maine department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, I had the...
View ArticleDon't get sea sick! Nasa's Incredible Perpetual Ocean
credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Incredible way to visualise ocean surface currents around the world. Based on data gathered by nasa between 2005 and 2007.
View ArticleForget the cheerleader! Follow the frog - save the world. @RnfrstAlliance
Since making 'Life in Cold Blood' a few years ago I'd consider myself a bit of a herpetologist so when someone says 'follow the frog' it gets my attention. But this isn't a flying frog, a poison dart...
View Article10 Wildlife Documentary Spoofs - Nominate or Drop?
Pandas filming humans in Bristol @Bristol_Culture Wildscreen - the international wildlife and environmental film & TV festival - will be held in Bristol in October. We've already seen pandas...
View ArticleRun for the hills! Fearsome Fire Devil caught on film #JawDrop
My jaw dropped when I received this from Chris Tangey of Alice Springs Film & TV - a clip of a 100-foot ‘Fire Devil’. He filmed it near Mount Conner in Australia just a few weeks ago. Watch the...
View ArticleThe Attenborough Drinking Game?
I've never heard a David Attenborough documentary being described as intoxicating, until now! A friend sent me the idea of 'The Sir David Attenborough Drinking Game' as posted on Cheezburger.com, and...
View ArticleAmazing Fast Food Leopard Kill
If only this happened when we were out filming. "We nearly missed this leopard on our early morning game drive. We were watching her for about half an hour when something spooked the herd of Impala on...
View Article'The Croc Killer' Worlds Most Famous Tiger - Queen of Tigers tonight on The...
"There is an old jungle saying in these parts. Of a tigress who stalks. Of a tigress who rules Ranthambore. Of a tigress whose majesty is assured as much by the gaze of millions she arrests with the...
View ArticlePolar Bears & The Death Zone - BBC #OperationIceberg
Operation Iceberg, Tues 30th November, 9pm, BBC2 "This is the real death zone, where maelstroms churn in anticipation of millions of tonnes of merciless ice cracking free of its mother lode and...
View ArticleThe Hamster looks at Miracles of Nature, BBC1
Here's another series that will be waiting for me when I get back from filming in Australia. Let me know if it's a 'load it up as I walk through the door' type of programme or a 'maybe I'll get round...
View ArticleIf Attenborough had an Ark - 10 weird & wonderful creatures saved
Natural World Special: Attenborough’s Ark, BBC Two, Friday 9th November, 9pm David Attenborough chooses the 10 endangered animals from around the world that he’d most like to save from extinction....
View ArticleAttenborough, Cleese & Patrick Moore down the pub - "What has the BBC ever...
Naturally I'm bias - I love the BBC - but I'm not going to get on my high horse after yet another major crisis (I'm not important enough to have a high horse for a start), all I want to do is share...
View ArticleBBC Earth Unplugged - NEW channel - Meet Your Planet! @EarthUnplugged
Check this out! A new YouTube channel from the BBC Earth has just launched. Earth Unplugged features a kaleidoscope of the wonders and curiosities of nature. Showcasing outstanding videos...from...
View ArticleNot to be missed! Sir David Attenborough, 60 years in the wild
Sir David Attenborough, 60 years in the wild. Tonight, 9pm on BBC2. Like many of my colleagues in the BBC I've been lucky enough to work with the man who is known to millions as Mr Wildlife, the voice...
View ArticleDodo's Guide to Extinction - Dara O'Briain's Science Club
Dara O'Briain's Science Club - episode 3, Tues 20th Nov, 9pm, BBC2Dodo's Guide to Extinction A few hundred years ago, extinction as a concept made no sense to anyone. But then fossil finds and advances...
View ArticleDavid Attenborough: 60 years in the wild - Discover a stunning fact about the...
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild. Tune in again, tonight at 9pm for the second episode 'Understanding the Natural World' (BBC TWO & BBC HD – REPEATED Sat 7:30pm). …and for those that can't wait,...
View ArticleAFRICA - BIG Attenborough Wildlife Spectacular - Exclusive sneak preview
Last we were transported to the icey wonderlands of Frozen Planet, but this years BBC WILDLIFE TV SPECTACULAR is sure to warm our cockles, captivate our minds and leave us in awe of a wild continent....
View ArticleAmazing cats on camera-traps in BBC competition.
The winners of this years BBC Wildlife Camera-trap Photo of the Year competition were announced this week bringing us a striking set of images which capture intimate, surprising and rare glimpses into...
View ArticleWatch Sir David Attenborough relive his first Zoo Quest experience - 60 years...
If you haven't seen this series yet then you're missing a treat. Tune in tonight for the third, final and arguably most important episode ‘Our Fragile Planet’. 9pm on BBC TWO & BBC HD. (To be...
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