Nick Baker
World-class wildlife presenter and author
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 on our screens for over 30 years, most recently co-presenting Big Week at the Zoo (Channel 5) alongside Helen Skelton.
He travelled the globe in search of nature’s weirdest and most wonderful creatures in the long-running series Weird Creatures with Nick Baker (C5 and Animal Planet) and more recently was based in Malaysia while presenting a series of films for National Geographic. Nick has hosted BBC’s Autumnwatch Unsprung and Springwatch Unsprung (BBC) and his one-off special, Nick Baker’s Beautiful Freaks, was broadcast on both Discovery and Sky 3D.
He has also 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 has enjoyed guest presenting role on Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Pirate Ship Live with Vic Reeves and appeared on many of our much-loved TV shows including Loose Women, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Tomorrow’s World, The Paul O’Grady Show, BBC Breakfast and Inside Out.
Stateside
Nick’s knowledge and experience encompasses the wild in its broadest sense – serious natural history and science, explorations of land and ocean, conservation, and extinction. In the US, Nick was one of National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorers (National Geographic US). He covered anti-poaching patrols in Cambodia, Yellowstone and the Yukon; the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and emergent zoonotic viruses. He was subsequently voted the most eligible presenter on cable by readers of People magazine in the United States.
Speaking
Nick is known as an engaging speaker and his passion for his subject shines through, as does his ability to make his audience laugh.
Books
Nick is a prolific writer with nine 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 with practical advice, to delight, inform and inspire us all to discover the art of returning to nature.
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.
Interests
As a committed conservationist, Nick supports several organisations. He led a study of the declining ‘Ring Ouzel’ with the RSBP on his home turf of Dartmoor. Nick is vice-president of the charity Bug Life, a patron of Save the Rhino.
Pictures courtesy of: Mark Amey.