My Wild Life
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29. Rescued elephants in Thailand.
1. Me as a fresh-faced young boy.
2. Jill and me modelling a pair of Wildlife Aid sweatshirts at the door of Randalls Farm.
3. Me in my Wildlife Aid uniform.
4. Every animal matters, no matter how small.
5. This tawny owl was in a tight spot when we were called out to rescue it.
6. When I’m on a rescue, I focus completely on the animal – even when there’s a camera in my face.
7. Percy the swan goose was one of our longest residents.
8. Just one of the hundreds of badgers we have saved over the years.
9. There is nothing more rewarding than releasing an animal back to the wild.
10. One of the volunteers knitted a Simon for the badgers. I particularly like the attention to detail, although it should be Diet Coke.
11. A baby owl plays peek-a-boo with the camera.
12. The Wildlife Aid Foundation centre is where I feel most at home.
13. Sunrise on the morning after the fire showed how much we’d lost.
14. Various celebrities have been a great help to us. Born Free Foundation founder Virginia McKenna has been a wonderful supporter for many years.
15. Chris Tarrant helps out at one of our open days.
16. Ricky Gervais, another of our celebrity supporters, described me as ‘like David Attenborough, with Tourette’s’.
17. My first foreign filming assignment to Zambia was an amazing experience.
18. In Vietnam with our government minder and the crew: Jim, me and Jason.
19. To be so close to one of the world’s rarest creatures was an honour.
20. I talk to Dr Marker about her scheme encouraging goat herders to protect flocks with dogs, rather than guns.
21. In Namibia at the Cheetah Conservation Fund with Dr Laurie Marker.
22. Wildlife SOS gave me the opportunity to see other conservation projects around the world.
23. Amazingly these seals made their own way to the seal rescue centre when they were ill.
24. Rescued penguins in South Africa prepare to go back to the wild.
25. Filming in Russia where the wild wolf population is in decline.
26. In Belize where this baby croc had found its way into a hotel. Luckily the staff there called in the experts.
27. British Veterinary Ophthalmology specialist Dr Claudia Hartley investigates a Vietnamese moon bear for eye disease.
28. Nothing can prepare you for the sight of a great white shark emerging from the murk of the ocean.
29. Rescued elephants in Thailand.