Steve Backshall

You can watch Steve Backshall on Big Cat Diary, Expedition New Guinea and Expedition Guyana

Steve Backshall is a naturalist, writer with the Rough Guides and TV presenter who works on mainly Children's BBC output including The Really Wild Show, Deadly 60, BBC TV's Lost Land of the Volcano, Lost Land of the Tiger and also on National Geographic Channel's Earth Pulse series.

In 2008, Backshall fell 10m on to rocks at the Wye Valley in the Forest of Dean after attempting to climb a steep cliff face wet from an earlier rainfall. The impact sent his heel bone through the bottom of his foot, dislocated his ankle and fractured two vertebrae in his back.

Undeterred, Backshall has, since January 2011, embarked on a theatre tour of the UK entitled Wild and Live.

Planet Earth Live
Life is Sharing

  • Planet Earth Live is the biggest live wildlife broadcast ever undertaken.

  • As a child, Richard Hammond started his own wildlife club and armed with a nature kit set out to study the wildlife in his Solihull garden.

  • In Africa, Richard will be joining Kenyan elephant researcher David Daballen who knows more than 700 of the Samburu elephants by name.

  • Our closest relatives, the chimps and gorillas, laugh when tickled.

  • Dolphins can point with their bodies and have been known to communicate an object's location to human divers.

  • Flamingos are only red because of the food they eat.