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Meet the Hedgehogs - 20th June, Channel 5 @ 8pm.
Steve Backshall visits a hedgehog rescue centre in Surrey founded by Brian May. He meets the dedicated staff and discovering the stories behind some of the animals being treated, helps to release a successfully treated hedgehog back into the wild, and offers advice on how to make a garden into a welcoming environment for the creatures.
Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content and Tom McDonald, BBC Head of Commissioning, Natural History and Specialist Factual, today announce Wild Alaska Live, a major three-part live television event for BBC One, produced by BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit and co-produced by PBS.
The three part series, to be broadcast live across a week in July 2017 from the makers of 2015's BAFTA award winning Big Blue Live, will broadcast one of the greatest wildlife spectacles from one of the remotest corners of Earth.
Viewers will be taken on a live adventure, as the crew broadcasts from across the vast wildernesses of Alaska, one of the last and best places in the world to see these spectacular animals in all their glory.
Steve Backshall, Matt Baker and Liz Bonnin will be there at the most crucial time of year for Alaskan wildlife; the annual salmon run triggers the start of a remarkable summer feast as black bears, brown bears, Kodiak bears, orca, humpback whales, salmon, beavers, salmon sharks, walrus, wolves and many others gather for a summer feast like no other on the planet.
Steve Backshall says: “Alaska is the last frontier of the continent, with forgotten forests the size of nations, cut through with glaciers, mountains and raging rivers. In July an unparalleled explosion of life transforms the wilderness, creating one of the greatest wildlife events on the planet, and we’re going to be there… live.”
Congratulations to Steve Backshall and Helen Glover for completing the 125 mile canoe race from Wiltshire to Westminster last month and raising over £150,000 for the World Land Trust goo.gl/2CqNkW
Watch Steve and Helen on the One Show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mh7dx
Following his sold out 2016 Australian tour, Steve Backshall the star of one of the most popular children’s shows on the planet, is returning to Australia with a new LIVE show based on the hit BBC Earth series, “Deadly 60 Pole to Pole”.
Come on an intimate journey with Steve as he shares his experiences travelling from the South Pole to the North Pole, and his gripping encounters with deadly creatures from all corners of the globe.
Click here to get your tickets to see Steve live on stage this January for an evening of wild discovery and dangerous entertainment.
Read Steve's inspiring interview with Career's World - in which he chats about education, studies and following your dreams.
Last weekend The Daily Mail asked Steve a plethora of questions for their Definite Article feature, covering everything from his pet hates to his favourite poem...
Steve spoke to The Telegraph about the highs and lows of having an Olympic athlete as a partner.
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Tonight at 8pm on ITV in the final episode of the series, Steve is in the vast nature reserves of South Africa in search of a pack of rare and endangered African wild dogs. In this final episode, Steve helps capture and tag a magnificent martial eagle, gets hands on with a venomous spitting cobra and a puff adder as they strike and risks life and limb to kayak up close to Africa's most dangerous mammal, the highly unpredictable hippopotamus.
I am thrilled to announce that next year I will be heading to Kenya and the Arctic Circle, leading two trips you can join me on! Organised by wildlife holiday specialists Natural World Safaris, I will be on hand in each location offering expert advice to help you enjoy every wildlife encounter.
If you’ve always wanted to visit the Arctic, join me and 12 other guests in August 2017 in Svalbard for a small-ship sailing around Spitsbergen. We will sail past spectacular scenery of broken sea-ice, magnificent mountains and ancient glaciers in the search for Arctic wildlife: seals, walrus, Arctic foxes, Svalbard reindeer and of course, the majestic polar bear. https://www.naturalworldsafaris.com/holidays/polar-regions/svalbard/ultimate-svalbard-safari-with-steve-backshall
Come September, I’ll be travelling further south to the wide open plains of Kenya on the ultimate big cat and migration safari with just 18 guests. In the Masai Mara, we will go on twice-daily game drives to witness the famed Great Wildebeest Migration for ourselves, as they travel in their thousands with crocs, lions and leopards in hot pursuit! In the evenings, we will stay in a fantastic camp that we have exclusively to ourselves, where we will chat and learn more about each experience we shared that day. https://www.naturalworldsafaris.com/holidays/africa/kenya/big-cats-and-the-great-migration-with-steve-backshall
For more information or to book onto one of these trips, please visit www.naturalworldsafaris.com or call 01273 691 642 to speak with the team at Natural World Safaris.
I hope to see you there!
