The Lion, the Keeper and the Dealer
I’m torn. Am I pleased that finally the people of Northern Ireland can’t just go out and buy tigers and wolves and cobras and keep them in their sheds? Or am I a bit sad that uniformity now reigns and, 30 years after the rest of Britain introduced wild animals legislation, Northern Ireland has been [...]
Wild China: Shangri-La
You’d think after decades of nature programmes they’d have run out of weird creatures to show us, but this episode about Yunnan, a remote forest in southwest China, is full of jaw-dropping moments - from bats the size of bumblebees living in a bamboo stem, to villagers tying feathers to hornets, to the unearthly song [...]
Wild: Otters
Ten lovely minutes. Cameraman father and son go otter filming on the Isle of Skye. My favourite bit is the Mouse Ferrari Experiment. Apart from the otters of course.