Giles Clark

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Giles Clark is an English conservationist and TV presenter.

Biography

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "BBC Two - Tigers about the House, Series 1 - Meet Giles Clark". BBC.
  2. ↑ "Big cats get a new boss". Kent Online. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "BBC - Tigers About The House - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "BBC Two - Big Cats About the House, Series 1". BBC.
  5. ↑ "Bears About the House". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "What it was like spending time with Mary the sun bear in year-long conservation project". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "TV: Giles Clark on why we have to treat the environment around us with respect". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  8. ↑ "'First of its kind' tiger habitat opens at Paradise Wildlife Park". BBC News. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Davies, Alan (5 October 2020). "Sun bears coming to new Paradise Wildlife Park habitat". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
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