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Back off to Alaska for my last shoot of the year. I’m initially going to one of my favourite locations; the Chilkat River, where, rather bizarrely, I’ve been for the the last three winters. It’s a stunning location – there will be between 1,000 and 2,000 bald eagles there right now, all gathered along a […] Read more »

Our multi-award winning film about the work of Erik Patel, Madagascar, the Environmental Investigation Agency, Silky Sifakas, illegal logging, world trade, Satcha Von Bismark, evil guitar manufacturers, mud and some rain is showing at the Anglo-Malagashy Society in London on Saturday 2nd of November. http://anglo-malagasysociety.co.uk/tickets.html The result of a huge amount of hard work from […] Read more »

Home at last after what seems like an eternity away  – in all it was 7 weeks away with 6 days at home at the halfway point, just enough time to really screw up my body clock. This was the second shoot for a major BBC series about the wildlife of Alaska, the shopping list […] Read more »

There is something about working in two different countries on the same trip that makes it feel like you have been away from home longer than you actually have. This last shoot consisted of three weeks in Canada followed by a week in Alaska, and it is very nice to home. Although the joys of […] Read more »

Home again after a great, if rather weird, 5 weeks in the Maasi Mara. I was filming two sequences for BBC1’s upcoming landmark series Survival; a sequence about the zebras crossing the Mara River, and a sequence about lion society. I think we got some really great material, but, as a first experience of the […] Read more »

Two weeks at home which have gone by in a bit of a blur, but have been lovely. It seems utterly daft to head off again just as the Great British Summer seems to have finally come to life, but at least it’ll be good to know that Julie and the boys will have some […] Read more »

A fantastic couple of weeks in a genuine tropical paradise. The crabs did everything that we were told that they would and more. It’s a really incredible behaviour and possibly unique to hermit crabs and humans. We certainly couldn’t think of another species which forms these ‘vacancy chains’ – individuals queue in order to move […] Read more »

A fantastic, if rather hectic, few weeks at home, and now heading off again just as summer seems to be finally happening. Next stop is Belize, or, to be more precise Carrie Bow Cay, an island the size of a couple of tennis courts 14 miles off the coast – it looks unbelievably idyllic. It’s […] Read more »

Just back from an fantastic month in Senegal filming for the BBC Natural History Unit’s Survival series. Our plan was to film chimps digging for water – an amazing behaviour, and one that has never been filmed before. On arrival it was pretty clear why it hasn’t been filmed before – in fact nobody has […] Read more »

After a very protracted period of security checks it’s been decided that we can, at last, head off to Senegal. I’m going to be filming chimps for the BBC Survival series. This is a really interesting group of chimpanzees which live in a semi-desert environment, rather like the patchwork of scrub and grassland in which […] Read more »