Giles Clark
Giles Clark is an English conservationist and TV presenter.
Biography[edit]
Clark, who grew up in Middlesex, started his career working with big cats when volunteering as a sixteen-year-old.[1] Moving to Australia, he became Head of Big Cats at Australia Zoo in Queensland. Upon returning to the UK he became a Director at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent.[2]
His TV breakthrough came in 2014 when he presented the BBC programme Tigers About the House.[3] The show, which consisted of three episodes, followed Giles and his family as they bring up two young tiger cubs. This was followed up with another series, a two-parter entitled Tigers About the House: What Happened Next. In 2016, he co-presented the four episodes of Ingenious Animals, another BBC programme. In 2018, he presented Big Cats About the House, which featured him bringing up a Jaguar called Maya and a cheetah in his own home with his family.[4]
In July 2020, Clark presented the BBC's programme Bears About the House,[5] narrated by Andrew Lincoln. The series highlighted the illegal trade in sun bears[6] and moon bears in Laos. The first episode focuses on a sun bear called Mary whom Clark helps raise after she was rescued by Free the Bears Fund. The second episodes continued to follow the bears as they were rehabilitated.[7]
In 2020, Clark was involved in setting up a new state of the art tiger enclosure[8] and announced plans for a new exhibit for Sun Bears.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "BBC Two - Tigers about the House, Series 1 - Meet Giles Clark". BBC.
- ^ "Big cats get a new boss". Kent Online. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ "BBC - Tigers About The House - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ "BBC Two - Big Cats About the House, Series 1". BBC.
- ^ "Bears About the House". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ "What it was like spending time with Mary the sun bear in year-long conservation project". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "TV: Giles Clark on why we have to treat the environment around us with respect". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "'First of its kind' tiger habitat opens at Paradise Wildlife Park". BBC News. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ Davies, Alan (5 October 2020). "Sun bears coming to new Paradise Wildlife Park habitat". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 11 September 2021.