Search For Tigers
Wed 20 Jun, BBC 2
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm 30mins
African big cat expert, Saba Douglas-Hamilton, teams up with Indian tiger expert, Valmik Thapar, on a wonderfully exotic tiger safari to Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, India.
Saba's early frustrations at failing to spot the striped cat are soon replaced with awe and excitement as she and Valmik are surrounded by more tigers than she had bargained for.
Tiger Zero wins best Conservation film at Wild Asia Film Festival and Battle to Save the Tiger wins best conservation message at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula.
more details below.
(c) Anup Shah/Nature Picture Library.
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Battle to Save the Tiger
David Attenborough reveals why there are fewer wild tigers in India’s protected reserves today than when a multi-million pounds project to protect them began 35 years ago, and introduces the three champions who are battling to end a tragic catalogue of mismanagement, inept science and cover-ups, and save a conservation icon from extinction.
“Triumph has turned to tragedy….. the big cats are vanishing in
ever-increasing numbers – even from the country’s
guarded reserves” – SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH (Narrator)
BATTLE TO SAVE THE TIGER is a Mike Birkhead Associates film for the BBC2 series NATURAL WORLD. The series editor is Tim Martin. The film’s first broadcast is on Wednesday 11th April (9pm, BBC2) repeated on Sunday I5 April, (6.10pm, BBC2). The film was nominated for the finals of the Wild Asia Film Festival held in Singapore 13-16th March.
This film follows on from last year's film Tiger Zero - Best Conservation Message Award Missoula 2006 and Wildscreen finalist 2006 and winner at Wild Asia Film Festival held in Singapore 13-16th March. see a clip.
Picture by WPSI/EIA - Belinda Wright.
Help Wildlife Protection Society of India and Environmental Investigation Agency in their fight to save the tiger.
"Unforgettable Elephants" was on PBS NATURE series on April 1st at 8pm. see PBS press release.
This is the story of the African Elephant through the eyes of an extraordinary photographer - Martyn Colbeck. It was called EYE FOR AN ELEPHANT in the UK.
The programme was shown on BBC2 in Autumn 2006.
In Production.
Re-Wilding Scotland. An exciting Natural World film for the BBC and also a 6 x30 series The Real Monarch of the Glen for BBC Scotland.
The creation of Europe’s first ever Wilderness Game Reserve in the Scottish Highlands
Re-Wilding Scotland.
There is a revolution taking place in the Scottish Highlands. The local people are used to a beautiful but bleak landscape devoid of natural forest. They are happy the wolves and bears that used to roam here a few hundred years ago are gone. But Paul Lister and his dedicated team at Alladale Estate in the heart of the Scottish Highlands are committed to change – they want to turn back the clock and “re-wild” the highlands with wolves, bears, moose, wild boar and lynx. He has seen similar plans for habitat regeneration followed by reintroductions work in Africa and he knows that in other parts of Europe people live alongside big predators without a problem. But can it work it Scotland?
Paul Lister - the man with the vision at Alladale.
More winter scenes - filming has already started!! Cameraman Gordon Buchanan with Hugh Fullerton Smith the General manager for Alladale
Cuckoo!
A remarkable story of murder, mystery and deceit in the reed beds of Oxford & Cambridgeshire.
The Cuckoo has intrigued and inspired people for thousands of years. Greek philosophers, poets and Shakespeare wrote about it as a bird with a dubious reputation. But of course they did not know the facts. This is a story where the reality is more amazing than the folklore.
Filming starts this spring with Professor Nick Davies and Mike Bayliss. Alastair Macewen will be the cameraman. Alastair has filmed extensively for every large BBC Narural History series and made the award winning film - The Elephant the Emperor and the Butterfly Tree - you can read more about him here.
Elephant Nomads of the Namib Desert.
This film will document for the first time the intimate lives of a very special group of elephants.
This film will be edited in the Spring ready for transmission in the autumn.
There is a little-known group of elephants in the far northwest of the Kunene region of Namibia that moves between the remote shores of the Skeleton Coast and the high Kabere Mountains of the interior. In doing so these animals pass through some of the most dramatic and austere scenery on Earth. Little is known about this surprising group of animals and their existence only became evident recently when cameraman Martyn Colbeck came across them whilst working for producer Huw Cordey on BBC’s prestigious series Planet Earth.
If you need help filming in Namibia I used Namibfilms they were great and made our production possible in difficult times when budgets have to go further. Without a doubt I enjoyed my stays in Namibia more than any other location thanks to Guy Nockels and his team which included some great support people like Richard Berkeley, Axel, Tim and Gerry. They just know what a production needs and never let us down - thanks guys. We'll be back!
