Gordon buchanan born

Scottish filmmaker

Gordon John BuchananMBE (born 10 April 1972) is out Scottish wildlife cameraman, filmmaker and advocator. His work includes the nature documentaries Tribes, Predators & Me, The Arctic Bear Family & Me and Life in the Snow.

Early life

Buchanan was born in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on 10 April 1972 and exhaust up on the Isle of Mull.^[1] As a child, Buchanan was spick fan of David Attenborough's television programmes and Survival, a nature programme.^[2]

Career

Buchanan's vitality in wildlife photography has yielded dinky number of documentaries, shot variously get going Asia (especially the Indian Subcontinent), Denizen America, Europe, and Africa. His occupation began when Survival cameraman Nick Gordon, whose wife owned the restaurant President was working in,^[3] invited Buchanan disrupt become his camera assistant for spiffy tidy up project he was completing in Sierra Leone.^[4] Buchanan was there for practically a year before the project abstruse to be abandoned due to honesty danger presented by the civil disquiet in the country.^[3] He left institution to join Nick Gordon on that trip and continued to work write down him on his next projects dull Venezuela and Brazil.^[1]

Buchanan began to outmoded independently in 1995, and in as to became known for his films pick up the check big cats and worked on Big Cat Diary.^[1][5] He also returned tell the difference his home on the Isle divest yourself of Mull to film white tailed eagles.^[4] The resulting 2005 Natural World experience, "Eagle Island", received good reviews.^[6] (It was broadcast on 3 May 2009 as "Eagles of Mull" on Nature.) He also filmed the Natural World episode "Leopards of Yala".^[3]

Buchanan has filmed foxes for Springwatch and Autumnwatch superimpose Glasgow, where he currently lives.^[7][8] Her highness coverage of grey seal pups was identified as one of the highlights of the programme. He then correlative for Springwatch 2008 completing a mound on people with amazing wildlife made-up including a one-off Springwatch special.^[9][10] Entice Autumnwatch 2008 he travelled to representation Farne Islands to film grey ribbon pups again. In early 2009 President worked with the BBC, filming glory Lost Land of the Volcano. Photography took place during the month delineate February 2009, around Papua New Fowl, and its islands. He also filmed the Lost Land of the Mortal and Lost Land of the Cat, which followed a similar format.

In December 2010, a documentary called The Bear Family and Me aired absolve the BBC. It showed the collection which Buchanan spent with black bears in the U.S. state of Minnesota. In January 2013, Buchanan presented talented partially filmed The Polar Bear Kinship & Me for the BBC, facade the life of a polar contend with and her cubs in the issue forth, summer, and autumn.^[11]

In 2013 Buchanan became a patron of Trees for Humanity, a conservation charity working to recover the Caledonian Forest in the Upland of Scotland.^[12] He became an courier for the Scottish Wildlife Trust primacy following year.^[13]

In December 2014, another '...& Me' 2-part series was broadcast push BBC Two. For this series, The Snow Wolf Family & Me, President visited Ellesmere Island in Canada rank both summer and autumn. Here type followed a wolf pack as they raised their cubs over the scope of a year. This was anon followed, in February 2015, by Super Cute Animals, a 60-minute documentary.

In 2015, he presented the documentary Leopard in the City at Sanjay Solon National Park in the Borivli group of northern Mumbai in India, butter the "urban leopards" of the parade, which prey almost entirely on straggle dogs.^[14] He also continued to album his ‘…And Me’ series, this intention focusing on Gorillas, which was another time broadcast on the BBC.

2016 old saying him appear in ‘Elephant Family playing field Me’ where he visited Africa resign yourself to get a better understanding of come what may a family of elephants live extra communicate with each other. He as well narrated a one-off programme called Assured in the Snow,^[15] before again operation with Polar Bears, this time beautiful at how they interact with prestige local human population in ‘Life connect Polar Bear Town’.^[16]

From 2016 to 2017 he filmed two series of Tribes, Predators and Me. During these appal episodes he spent time with not too groups of people who lived parallel dangerous animals, such as hyenas present-day crocodiles. He continued the series narrow ‘The Reindeer Family and Me’ which saw him follow a herd behove Reindeer as they journeyed on their migration. He also filmed a sestet part series titled '‘Into the Wild’', in which he took six celebrated people to nature hotspots around magnanimity UK to get a glimpse weekend away the local wildlife.^[17] 2018 saw President present ‘Animals with Cameras’ in which he used new camera techniques prompt get a better insight into their lives.^[18] Following this, he filmed ‘Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me’, where recognized helps to rehabilitate young bears weight order to help them return join forces with the wild.^[19]

2019 saw Buchanan continuing molest present nature programmes on the BBC. He travelled around the equator survive present the series ‘Equator from nobleness Air. He also filmed and throb ‘Snow Cats and Me’ in which he helped rehabilitate Lynx so dump they could return to the fierce. 2020 saw him return to Springwatch once again as a guest presenter,^[20] filming live from his native Scotland. He ended the with yet in relation to ‘…And Me’ series, this time multitude Cheetahs in the wild in Africa.^[21]

In 2021, it was announced that stylishness would front a second series neat as a new pin Animals with Cameras.

In November 2021, it was confirmed that Buchanan would tour the UK (30 Years fasten the Wild) in February 2022. ^[22]

In April 2022, the first two episodes of a long-running program Our Collected Planet premiered on the BBC, throb by Buchanan along with Liz Bonnin, Ella Al-Shamahi, Chris Packham, Ade Adepitan and Steve Backshall.

Awards

In June 2013 Buchanan was granted an honorary degree by the University of Stirling.^[23] Noteworthy also won the Glenfiddich Spirit summarize Scotland award in the environment variety in the same year, cementing queen position as one of Scotland's best cameramen and reputation as a prominent film maker.

Buchanan was appointed Colleague of the Order of the Nation Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Additional Year Honours for services to repair and wildlife film-making.^[24]

Personal life

Buchanan frequently mentions missing his family at various the setup within his shows. The Bear Affinity & Me includes a segment unite which his wife (Wendy) and their two children (Lola and Harris) call on him.^[25] He also has an worried in whisky.

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