Join me at the BBC Summer of Wildlife day - WWT London Wetland Centre
I've been invited back to the WWT London Wetland Centre to join BBC presenter Kate Silverton and Springwatch cameraman Jack Perks, at the BBC Summer of Wildlife Day on June 30th.  More than 20...
View ArticleA Great TV weekend: Wild, Operation Snow Tiger & Rise of the Continents
Three not-to-be missed series starting this weekend.9am Saturday morning CBBC: Wild Join Naomi Wilkinson, Tim Warwood and Radzi Chinyanganya on a WILD adventure filled with wild animals and extreme...
View ArticleBird-Killer or Cuddly Companion? - See the secret life of the common cat...
Thursday 13th June, BBC2, 9pm There are over 10 million roaming the UK. To some they are manipulative, red-eye-inducing, garden-defecating, bird-killers. To others they are cute, cuddly and...
View ArticleIf you thought Frack was something said on Battlestar Galactica then think...
If you thought Fracking was just something Commander Adama said as he realised his best mate was a Cylon, then think again... In tonights episode of Horizon Iain Stewart investigates a new and...
View ArticleOn an island far, far away... Ewan McGregor takes us to the Hebrides
BBC2, 9pm, Thursday 11th July Puffins in peril, basking sharks, seal pups and romping hares... more action than you can shake a lightsaber at! Accompanied by the soft scottish tones of Ewan McGregor,...
View ArticleMournful faces in a lost city of stone - Isle of Portland
After the steep climb up from Chesil Beach, on the Isle of Portland, we discovered an overgrown ancient city riddled with a labyrinth of crumbling streets. This is the abandoned Tout Quarry, an 18th...
View ArticleOut of the office: Volcanoes, Ancient Temples, Dust Desert & a Chicken Church!
I'm currently out of the office filming volcanoes in Java. I'll be back in early August. Here's a few of my tweets and Flickr iPhone photos... "Glorious morning timelapsing the twin volcanoes of...
View ArticleWhy wildlife TV needs conservationists & Exploring Earth - my latest...
My latest contribution to Bare Essentials Magazine has just been published and includes 21 of my images from around the world. In this edition I speak about how I found myself in one of the most...
View ArticleChris in Wonderland - Meet the Burrowers: Animals Underground
The Burrowers, BBC Two, 9pm Friday 15th August. Alice stand aside! Chris Packham enters a specially built rabbit hole to explore the real wonderland of burrowing British mammals, including badgers,...
View ArticleBritain's Big Wildlife Revival starts today!
Britain's Big Wildlife Revival, BBC One, Sunday 18th August, 5:35pm. Conservationists have predicted that, without help, some of Britain’s most iconic species are severely threatened and may even face...
View ArticleOn #WorldOrangutanDay remember that you are 96.4% Orangutan
It's World Orangutan Day today and it was the perfect opportunity for me to log our rushes from a recent film shoot in Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, where we spent some quality time following a...
View ArticleInflate your Bee Beard ready for Ultimate Swarms #BBCOne
Ultimate Swarms, Monday 26th, 9pm, BBC One It's time to inflate your beard of bees as Professor George McGavin get's down with some of the world's most impressive swarms. It's not just the insects...
View Article#BBCMonsoon call out for time-lapse photographers - Help us to reveal the...
Calling Timelapse Photographers in India and SE Asia As you may know I have spent much of the past couple of years filming a major BBC Natural History TV series called 'Monsoon'. The story of how the...
View ArticleWow! 10 years ago today I was filming this giant ammonite in Lyme Regis.
I'm currently filming in Sri Lanka for 'Monsoon' and I just realised that 10 years ago today I was in Lyme Regis at the very start of my TV adventure. I was on my first shoot filming giant ammonites...
View ArticleRaising Rob - The world's cutest baby palm squirrel
Read the article about me and Rob, an orphaned baby palm squirrel that I raised whilst filming in Sri Lanka for a BBC wildlife series. The article was published in Mail Online on 17th September and it...
View ArticleThe worlds cutest vampire - The Spectral Tarsier #CuteoftheDay
#CuteoftheDay - The Spectral Tarsier. What's cuter than 1 tarsier in a tree? 2 tarsiers - the worlds smallest primate.I took this photograph at the famous tarsier tree in Tangkoko, Sulawesi. Resembling...
View ArticleRama and Rob the baby squirrel - How the squirrel got it's stripes.
An adaptation of the Hindu tale Rama and the squirrel...featuring Rob the baby palm squirrel!Many years ago the 10 headed demon king Ravana kidnapped Sita, the wife of Lord Rama and took her to the...
View ArticleWindow on the world - Beautiful aerial images taken on commercial flights
As a director of BBC Natural History films, I spend a lot of time flying around the world, and it isn't long before I've exhausted all of the onboard movies. To keep myself occupied I've taken to...
View ArticleStrange eyes in the desert - The domes of Iran's Dasht-e Kavir
I first read about the famous Salt Desert of Iran when I was a student 15 years ago, so when I realised that my recent flight back from Australia flew directly over this spectacular landscape I booked...
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