Giles Clark

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]

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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