Steve Backshall
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| Steve Backshall | |
 Expedition Borneo (BBC)
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| Born | April 21, 1973 |
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| Occupation | Naturalist, writer and TV presenter |
Steve Backshall is a British naturalist, writer and television presenter, notably on National Geographic Channel's EarthPulse program, Children's BBC's The Really Wild Show, Discovery and BBC TVs series Expedition Guyana, Expedition Alaska, Wilderness St Kilda and Expedition Borneo. He is also an author with the Rough Guides.
For National Geographic International, Steve presented the expedition series Game For It and the environmental series EarthPulse. UK television viewers saw Steve travelling up Australia’s east coast from Tasmania to Cape Tribulation for his first series of The Really Wild Show. In the next series he then went on to travel around Central America, the Galapagos, and then Southern Africa for the last ever series in 2006. Steve competed with fellow naturalist Nick Baker in a series of wildlife challenges, with long-standing host Michaela Strachan.
On-air adventures in 2006 included Sky One’s Inside the King Cobra and the BBC's Expedition Borneo (in search of new species). In 2007, the BBC expedition team headed to Guyana for Expedition Guyana, and Steve also filmed Extreme Caving for BBC One with Kate Humble and Secret Wilderness Japan for BBC Two. During this time he also presented Nature Reports for the BBC's The One Show. [1]
Between 28 May and 15 June 2007, he co-presented Springwatch Trackers alongside Kirsten O'Brien. Transmitted live on BBC Two from the Springwatch farm in Devon and repeated later in the day on the CBBC Channel, teams of boys and girls were set a series of Tracker challenges.
Steve is a rock climber and mountaineer, and does adventure races, fell runs and endurance sports. He ran the Marathon Des Sables in 2005 to raise money for the Wolftrust [2] and has a black belt in judo [3] His book Venom - A study of toxins in the natural world was published by New Holland publishers in 2007. Steve lived in Japan for one year and can speak near enough fluent Japanese.
