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Ellie Harrison

Ellie is a geographer and ecologist known for her work presenting a whole host of wildlife and natural science programmes.

She has travelled to Namibia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia to film the wildlife series Michaela’s Wild Challenge, which earned a BAFTA in 2005. More recently she has travelled throughout the UK to film wildlife spectacles for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One’s . She currently presents for , Wild British Winters and is a regular on The Alan Titchmarsh Show. She also writes for Countryfile Magazine and fronts BTCV’s Spring Into Action campaign.

Ellie grew up in rural Gloucestershire. During her early travels she worked on a farm in Zimbabwe, canoed unguided on Lake Kariba and camped under the dam taking portrait photographs. She managed to squeeze in several wildlife watching trips in both Zimbabwe and Canada before returning to the UK to study Geography at King’s College, London. She specialised in biogeography and third world political ecology, and won a scholarship to travel to Zimbabwe for her thesis on conservation development and elephant management.

Ellie spends her spare time watching peregrine falcons, cycling, diving and studying zoology.