Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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Steve and the crew head into the beautiful Alaskan wilderness for another deadly adventure. It's the largest state in America, and is home to some of the most impressive predators on Earth. Next, Steve joined the Natural History Unit’s fledgling expedition team, making the first ascent of a jungle peak and dropping into a vast sinkhole in the Mulu mountains in ‘Expedition Borneo’. In ‘Lost Land of the Jaguar’he made the first ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, slept on the vertical cliff face and found unknown species of animals on the summit. He also abseiled to the bottom of the Kaiteur Falls in Guyana to the soaked wonderland below. Bangor University will award honorary degrees this summer to 11 individuals from the worlds of science, law, sport, the arts and popular culture for their contribution to public life". bangor.ac.uk/news. Steve visits the Southern States of the USA. He dives into the crystal clear waters of the Silver Springs River to swim with a wild alligator and adds his first plant to the Deadly 60, a carnivorous Venus flytrap. Steve continues his adventure for the Deadly 60 in the Philippines. Featured animals: water monitor, tarantula, whip spider, pangolin, mangrove catsnake

Deadly 60 is the book of series one, and is a diary style breakdown of each animal and how they were found and filmed. [26] Calendar". Watershed.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 17 May 2023. Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012 . Retrieved 15 June 2018. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) In 2009 and 2013, he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children's Television Presenter. Deadly 60 was nominated for Best Children's series. Lost Land of the Jaguar was nominated for Best Factual series. [41]

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He is realistic about the destruction of ocean life. There are half the number of fish swimming in our seas today than when he was born. During his lifetime alone we have taken at least 5bn sharks from the oceans, most so that their fins end up in soup. But he finds hope in the young people he meets through his work. “It would be totally wrong for me just to say, ‘Oh leave it to the youngsters, they’ll sort it out,’ but I don’t think that is what’s happening,” he says.

Saker’s latest assignment takes him to India to bring down the men who protect tigers. He’s being employed by a Chinese overlord who specialises in poaching for tiger farms and tiger organs for high priced medicines. But something happens to make Saker change sides and now he’s on the run from his predatory brothers. They’re hunting him down and they’re professionals.Steve visits Panama on the search for the elusive harpy eagle. Featured animals: glossy racer snake, peccary, bullet ant, harpy eagle In 2011 a spin-off show was broadcast called Deadly Art, which airs as a short filler programme on weekdays. [4] Series 1 [ edit ] In Lost Land of the Volcano, BBC One 2009, he led the first western expedition into the crater of the extinct volcano, Mount Bosavi, in Papua New Guinea, where they discovered, among other things, one of the largest species of rats known anywhere in the world, provisionally called the Bosavi woolly rat while its scientific name is determined. [13] They also uncovered miles of undiscovered passages in the Mageni cave system in New Britain. A series presented by Naomi Wilkinson, in which she travels around the world, looking for smaller potentially dangerous creatures, e.g. scorpions, spiders, poisonous insects, but also crocodiles or venomous snakes. It aired for the first time in 2012.

He meets fifteen year old Sinter, a spoiled rich girl, who is running away from an arranged marriage and their uneasy friendship will eventually form an unshakeable bond, as together they face adventure and danger as two young eco-warriors in a truly threatening world. New Holland Publishers Wildlife Adventure's Guide". Archived from the original on 18 January 2010 . Retrieved 17 May 2023. He wouldn’t try filming “on the fly” like this in the Arctic: “If you don’t find the polar bear or the narwhal you’re stuffed. But if you go to a rainforest and don’t find the harpy eagle, you know you’ll find the poison dart frog.” For the first time on Deadly 60 Steve and the team head to New Zealand. Steve descends deep into the Waitomo Caves to find an unusual predator that lures insects to their death with a lethal light show, the glow-worm.Snow leopard, (9) Thorny devil, (8) Pitcher plant, (7) Lungfish, (6) Fungus gnat glow worm, (5) Arctic fox Vs. fennec fox (winner: Arctic fox), (4) Spoor spider, (3) Emperor penguin, (2) Sperm whale, (1) Wood frog This episode continues the search for deadly animals in the United Kingdom. Featured animals: common otter, great raft spider, peregrine falcon He was a contestant on the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing from September 2014 on BBC One. He was partnered with former champion Ola Jordan. The couple left the series in week nine after dancing a jive to " Little Bitty Pretty One" by Frankie Lymon.