When it comes to presenting wildlife, Nick Baker is the total package; highly experienced, with unparalleled knowledge across the entire wildlife spectrum.
Film Work
Nick has been a known figure on our screens for over 30 years. He most recently presented BBC News’s Japan’s Wilderness. He is also well known for co-presenting Big Week at the Zoo (Channel 5) alongside Helen Skelton.
Nick has travelled the globe in search of our planet’s most fascinating wildlife, while long-running series Weird Creatures with Nick Baker took him in search of some of our weirdest (Channel 5 and Animal Planet). Nick has hosted BBC Two’s Autumnwatch Unsprung and Springwatch Unsprung and was seen on his one-off special, Nick Baker’s Beautiful Freaks (Discovery and Sky 3D). He previously presented The Really Wild Show (BBC One), Killer Shark Live (Channel 5), Test Your Pet (a live series for CBBC and BBC One), Under the Skin (BBC Two) and Deep into the Wild (Animal Planet). Nick enjoyed guest presenting Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV) and Pirate Ship Live with Vic Reeves (Channel 5).
Nick has also appeared on many of the UK’s much-loved TV shows, including Loose Women, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and The Paul O’Grady Show for ITV, Tomorrow’s World, BBC Breakfast, BBC Mastermind and Inside Out for BBC One, BBC Eggheads for BBC Two and Blue Peter for CBBC.
Stateside Work
Nick’s knowledge and experience of wildlife and nature are all-encompassing. They include an academic understanding of natural history and science, practical explorations of both our land and our oceans, and a keen dedication to wildlife conservation.
In the United States, Nick was a correspondent on National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorers for National Geographic US. He covered anti-poaching patrols in Cambodia, Yellowstone and the Yukon, as well as the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nick was subsequently voted the most eligible presenter on TV by readers of People magazine.
Speaker
Nick is known as a hugely knowledgeable and respected speaker, with an impressive ability to make his audience laugh. He is a natural storyteller; sometimes serious, sometimes comedic, but always engaging and hugely informative. Nick speaks at a variety of events, from theatre shows, to lecture halls and after-dinner speaking events.
Books
Nick is a prolific writer with twelve published titles. His most recent book ReWild: The Art of Returning to Nature, introduces rewilding as a concept that needs to be established at a personal level. The book mixes memoir and practical advice, with an aim to delight, inform and inspire us all to discover the art of returning to nature.
Nick currently has another two books in press; The Pond Explorers Handbook and A Field Guide to the Night for Princeton University Press, as well as a second reworked edition of A Nature Trackers Handbook for Bloomsbury publishing.
Previous titles include Nick Baker’s Bug Book, The Complete Naturalist, The Nature Tracker’s Handbook and Nick Baker’s British Wildlife: A Month-by-Month Guide.
Education
Nick graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Biological Sciences. He was later a lecturer of science at the University. He has also held the position of Fellow of Natural History at Winchester College.
Interests
Nick is an enthusiastic cyclist. He also performs with several bands, playing electric guitar, singing, and sometimes even playing the banjo. Nick also paints, draws and hugely enjoys photography.
Conservation
As a committed conservationist, Nick supports several leading conservation NGOs, including the RSPB, Buglife and Butterfly Conservation, of which he is a Vice President. Nick is patron of the Amateur Entomological Society and Save the Rhino, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES), the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (FRCGS) and the Britain Naturalists Society (FBNA).
As a committed ecologist, Nick has led studies of several rare and threatened species, including the High Brown Fritillary Butterfly and Ring Ouzel on Dartmoor. More recently, Nick worked with Mar Lodge Estate and the Cairngorms National Park Authority to captive breed a rare and threatened species of ant.
