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Steve Backshall

BAFTA Award-Winning Wildlife Expert

Steve Backshall is a BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert and one of the UK’s most respected natural history presenters, as well as an accomplished author, speaker and conservationist. Renowned for his fearless approach and deep-rooted passion for the natural world, he has built a distinguished career bringing audiences closer to some of the planet’s most extraordinary and endangered environments. His recent work includes The Secret Life of Bees (Channel 5), alongside acclaimed projects such as Ice Age: A Frozen Planet, Deadly 60 Series 5, Whale with Steve Backshall and the landmark BBC series Our Changing Planet. He is best known as the face of the globally successful Deadly franchise, with Deadly 60 earning him a BAFTA for Best Children’s Presenter, while the series itself also received BAFTA recognition. Beyond television, Steve is a compelling live performer, with multiple sell-out tours across the UK and Australia. His latest show, Ocean, was met with critical acclaim, and he retur

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