Giles Clark is an English conservationist and TV presenter.

Biography

Clark, who grew up in

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le ...

, started his career working with

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s when volunteering as a sixteen-year-old. 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. His TV breakthrough came in 2014 when he presented the

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programme ''Tigers About the House''. 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. In July 2020, Clark presented the BBC's programme ''Bears About the House'', narrated by

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. The series highlighted the illegal trade in

sun bear The sun bear (''Helarctos malayanus'') is a bear species in the Family (biology), family Ursidae found in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. It is the only species in the genus ''Helarctos'' and the smallest bear species, standing nearly ...

s and moon bears in

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. 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. In 2020, Clark was involved in setting up a new state of the art tiger enclosure and announced plans for a new exhibit for Sun Bears.

References

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