Sign up to the Discover Animals newsletter:
Apple TV has announced an all-new 10-part docuseries, The Secret Lives of Animals, narrated by SAG Award winner Hugh Bonneville. It highlights 77 unique species in 24 countries over three years, revealing stunning, never-before-seen animal behaviours and highlighting the remarkable intelligence of the natural world. Hailing from the acclaimed BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the … Read more
Television presenters Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin will be live presenting a week of anarchic and inspiring autumn wildlife programmes called 8 Out Of 10 Bats from Trees for Life’s Dundreggan Rewilding Centre near Loch Ness in the Highlands from 23rd to 26th October. Chris, Megan and a team of talented young conservationists will be … Read more
Visitors to Marwell Zoo in Hampshire have been enjoying meeting CBeebies favourites, Bluey, Bingo and Hey Duggee on special Thursday Fun Days throughout the school holidays. There’s still a chance to see Bluey and her little sister Bingo, from the much-loved children’s TV show Bluey, on one more date – 24th August – while Hey Duggee … Read more
A year on from the first ambitious environmental series, Our Changing Planet returns to BBC One this Sunday, to continue to document how Earth’s most vulnerable habitats are responding, year on year, to increasing environmental threats as part of the corporation’s seven-year, natural history project. In the two hour-long episodes, six presenters – Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall, Chris … Read more
As the last episode of the new Wild Isles series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, aired last night, a reminder that the National Trust, RSPB and WWF are urging everyone in society to come together to halt the destruction of UK nature and take urgent action in their Save Our Wild Isles campaign. Millions of people from … Read more
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s troop of ring-tailed lemurs woke up to stuffed Christmas stockings this week. The excitable, stripy primates discovered the colourful stockings – filled with vegetable treats – in their home and spared no time tucking into their festive gifts. Pien, a female lemur, seemed to take particular delight in the Christmas stockings, sticking her … Read more
A new series of the show One Zoo Three is back on our screens on CBBC and BBC iPlayer. Based at Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire and its sister site The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, the show is fun and educational.
A brand-new augmented reality experience inspired by the BBC’s ground-breaking The Green Planet series is set to open in central London this week. Visitors to The Green Planet VR experience will be able to learn more about the flora and fauna that inhabit our planet thanks to digital botanical imagery.
A brand new documentary series, Planet Defenders, follows six young filmmakers as they go on a mission to discover more about the threats faced by endangered wildlife and what can be done to protect them. Made for CBBC by the BBC’s Natural History Unit, each film features a specific animal story or wildlife issue that … Read more
A new Channel 5 programme – launching this evening, Tuesday 6th October – takes us behind the scenes at one of the UK’s leading doggy day care providers to find out just what our four-legged friends get up to. The Secret Life of Doggy Day Care, filmed at Bruce’s centres in Surrey and Buckinghamshire, offers … Read more
A new kids TV show featuring Cam, Tyler and Aaron from Paradise Wildlife Park will air on CBBC every day after school this week. The One Zoo Three series follows the extraordinary lives of the three brothers as they live and work at the family zoo and introduce us to some of the 800 exotic … Read more
The Discover Animals team will be popping up on TV today, Thursday 3rd Sept, when we take part in the upcoming Celebrate Group Travel Day, streamed live via YouTube from 2pm-7pm. You can find out more about how animal attractions have been adjusting over the past few months as well as get up to date … Read more
“ZSL’s work is vital in driving forward a vision of a world where wildlife thrives, but ZSL now faces its toughest challenge to date – the national institution is now itself, at risk of extinction.” Sir David Attenborough is fronting a TV appeal to save conservation charity Zoological Society of London (ZSL) “from extinction”. The … Read more
One of the first films to launch on the new Apple TV+ streaming service this Friday 1st November is wildlife documentary The Elephant Queen. Narrated by Academy Award- nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, this cinematic film follows Athena, a majestic elephant matriarch who knowing there are lean times ahead, leads her family across the unforgiving East African … Read more
BAFTA award-winning Michaela Strachan has been a regular on our TV screens for many years presenting popular wildlife programmes including The Really Wild Show, Countryfile, Orangutan Diaries and, most recently, Springwatch. In an exclusive interview for Discover Animals, Michaela talks to Abbe & Simone about some memorable wildlife encounters, living in South Africa, conservation projects … Read more
BAFTA-nominated The Secret Life of the Zoo returned to our screens this week with cameras revealing parts of Chester Zoo that visitors never get to see. The new series, narrated by acclaimed British actress Tamsin Greig, offers a compelling insight into the private lives of animals at the zoo, from the social behaviour of rare … Read more
Sign up to the Discover Animals newsletter: