Giles Clark

Giles Clark is an English conservationist and TV presenter.

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. 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  3. "BBC - Tigers About The House - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  4. "BBC Two - Big Cats About the House, Series 1". BBC.
  5. "Bears About the House". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  6. "What it was like spending time with Mary the sun bear in year-long conservation project". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  7. "TV: Giles Clark on why we have to treat the environment around us with respect". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  8. "'First of its kind' tiger habitat opens at Paradise Wildlife Park". BBC News. 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  9. Davies, Alan (2020-10-05). "Sun bears coming to new Paradise Wildlife Park habitat". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
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