One of television’s busiest presenters,BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert Steve Backshall has been passionate aboutthe wild world ever since he could crawl. Steve has most recently appeared onour screens in Deadly Dinosaurs and Monster Mountain for CBBC, as well as guestpresenting Springwatch on BBC Two.

Steve’s previous credits include thehugely successful Wild Alaska Live (BBC One, PBS) and Hedgehog A&E (Channel5). Steve received critical acclaim for his canoeing expedition of one of theworld’s wildest rivers, the Baliem in New Guinea, for Down The Mighty Riverwith Steve Backshall (BBC Two). Previous to this, Steve was on our screens inthe two-part series Extreme Mountain Challenge (BBC Two) and Fierce(ITV).  In 2016 Steve co-presented the hugely successful series Big BlueLive (BBC One, PBS) live from Monterey, California . He also completed anexpedition to Venezuela on behalf of the BBC as well a set of performances onStrictly Come Dancing (BBC One). Steve also fronts the CBBC Deadly series’,travelling the world to film Deadly Pole to Pole, Deadly 60, Live and Deadly,Deadly 360, Deadly on a Mission and most recently, Backshall’s DeadlyAdventures. In 2011 Steve was recognised with a BAFTA award for The BestChildren’s Television Presenter for his work on Deadly 60, as well as theseries itself being honoured with a BAFTA for The Best Factual Series.

Steve’s extreme adventures also includebeing part of the Lost Land of the Tiger, Lost Land of the Volcano and the LostLand of the Jaguar (BBC One). He made the first decent into an unexploredsinkhole for the Emmy Nominated epic Expedition Borneo (BBC One) and trekked tothe heart of America’s most inhospitable terrain for Expedition Alaska(Discovery). Closer to home, Steve has presented Britain’s Lost World, ExtremeCaving, Inside Out, The One Show, The Nature of Britain and The Really WildShow.

Steve is also a prolific author, havingpublished 13 books. His most recent novel, Shark Seas, is the fourth in hischildren’s adventure series The Falcon Chronicles which so far comprises ofTiger Wars, Ghosts of the Forest and Wilds of the Wolf. He has also producednon-fiction; Looking for Adventure chronicles Steve’s expeditions in New Guineaand Mountain is an account of his most breath-taking climbing adventures.

Steve is a proud ambassador for The Scoutsand the Get Outside champion for Ordinance Survey. Steve has also released anexciting new range of outdoor gear for kids with Mountain Warehouse.

Following the success of Steve’s WildWorld Live UK Tour, Steve completed his Deadly 60 Live Tour of Australia. Steveis hugely popular with young television audiences who are both terrified anddelighted to watch his encounters with extraordinary and inspiring predators.This success lead to Deadly Days Out, a BBC series of events bringing liveanimals to locations across the UK as well as several sell out tours; thebiggest single day had an estimated 14,000 people and over the last few yearsSteve has talked live to over 300,000 people. Steve is an old-fashioned actionhero whose leisure pursuits include mountaineering, kayaking, scuba diving,martial arts and endurance running, which together with his unsurpassedwildlife knowledge, make him a compelling and motivational speaker for amultitude of audiences.