Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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From learning how to catch crayfish and cook up a meal from nature’s supermarket, to learning about tracking, and from kayaking with seals to rock climbing to see peregrines. The show bagged him a BAFTA for best Children's Television Presenter in 2011 and inspired numerous spin-off series. When a dead whale sinks to the bottom, specialised feeders, such as flame-haired zombie worms, devour the skeleton. Ollie Davis, aged 7, and Charlie Read-Cook, aged 5, with 8 month old baby sister Isla Warmer on World Book Day 2019. Next, Steve joined the Natural History Unit’s fledgling expedition team, making the first ascent of a jungle peak and dropping into a vast sinkhole in the Mulu mountains in ‘Expedition Borneo’.

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The whole idea of just shooting one little thing 100 times until it is beyond perfect is not my cup of tea. The days of an English-speaking presenter being filmed in a rainforest for a blockbuster natural history series are gone, he thinks. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. Staff and pupils alike have been dressing up as their favourite characters and holding reading events to encourage a love of books. In 2015, he co-presented a BAFTA award winning live series, Big Blue Live, and the following year presented a television miniseries documentary Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge and another documentary Fierce.In the year 1997, after an unsuccessful attempt to walk solo across the western half of New Guinea, he had an idea for a television series. The year 2017 saw him presenting a television miniseries documentary Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall, Japan's Northern Wilderness and Wild Alaska Live as well as a documentary special Meet the Hedgehogs. The subsequent years saw the release of three more books of the series – Ghosts of the Forest in 2013, The Wilds of the Wolf in 2014 and Shark Seas in 2016.

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Including the renowned, the unexpected and the downright bizarre, this companion book to Steve Backshall's high adrenaline tour of the world's most deadly is not to be missed.We’re starting to hear of water companies brazenly taking vast profits over the few decades since privatisation – paying huge amounts of money to people at the top of the pile and leaving us with rivers full of shit.

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Join him as footsteps, feeding habits and even a pile of pooh reveals snow leopards, crocodiles, gators, snakes and polar bears, while closer to home you can track foxes, squirrels, badgers and birds, using exactly the same techniques.Join DEADLY 60 presenter Steve Backshall in the world’s deadliest book about animals, packed with fascinating facts, killer statistics and stunning photographs. He worked there for five years before moving to BBC where he began presenting the children wildlife show, The Really Wild Show. I’m lucky to work alongside a lot of young activists who have a remarkable voice and a canny knack for using social media’: Steve Backshall. But with the majority of ocean species, even really iconic ones, we almost certainly will not have seen courtship, breeding and giving birth. From that moment on the seven-year-old boy was captivated: he knew this was somewhere he needed to go, this was a place he needed to explore.

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Steve’s outdoor sports CV includes having climbed the sixth highest mountain in the world (Cho Oyu 8201m) as well as many other ascents around the globe.In 2003, he left National Geographic to join BBC TV where he began presenting the children wildlife show, The Really Wild Show, for CBBC. If we ever describe them in relation to people it will be to confound expectations and talk about the fact that they are nothing like as dangerous as you might think.