We are super excited to announce and welcome Natural History Presenter, Adventurer, public Speaker and Author Steve Backshall to our Future Vision: Innovate Regenerate annual conference 2025.
Steve is a BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert, who inspires people of all ages with his enthusiasm for the natural world, and his love of challenge and adventure.
Film work
Steve’s latest series is currently broadcasting on BBC2 on Sunday evenings - Expedition with Steve Backshall
Steve’s latest series of his much loved show Deadly 60 (CBBC) aired in September 2024, continuing Steve’s mission to track down the world’s deadliest wildlife. Incorporate with below.
Steve fronts the (CBBC) Deadly series, which includes Deadly Pole to Pole, Deadly 60, Deadly Mission Shark, Live and Deadly, Deadly 360, Deadly on a Mission and Backshall’s Deadly Adventures. In 2011 Steve received a BAFTA for Best Children’s Television Presenter for his work on Deadly 60. The series itself won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series.
Killer Crocs with Steve Backshall aired in February 2024, Ice Age: A Frozen Planet (Channel 5) 2025, which he presents alongside Michaela Strachan. Steve’s lates C5 project The Secret Life of Bees is due out shortly, which shows us what it takes to be a beekeeper as Steve becomes an apiarist for the first time.
2023 was an incredibly busy year for Steve with the release of Whale with Steve Backshall for (Sky TV), Deadly Mission Shark for (CBBC), which inspires children to become shark ambassadors, and Steve and Aneeshwar Go Wild for (CBeebies). He is also co-presenting Our Changing Planet for (BBC One) – a ground-breaking seven-year diary, documenting the fight to save our planet’s most threatened ecosystems.
In 2022, Steve came face to face with some of the world’s deadly creatures for Deadly Predators - a new version of the award-winning Deadly 60 franchise. In 2021 Shark with Steve Backshall for (Sky Nature) saw Steve dive with great white sharks, hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and more, to help debunk the myth that all sharks are dangerous. The same year saw a new series of Expedition with Steve Backshall following the success of the ten-part TV Expedition series (broadcast on UKTV Dave) and Fantastic Foxes: Their Secret World for (Channel 5).
Previous TV credits include Blue Planet Live (BBC One), Deadly Dinosaurs and Monster Mountain (CBBC), the hugely successful Wild Alaska Live (BBC One, PBS) and Hedgehog A&E with Brian May (Channel 5). Steve received critical acclaim for his canoeing expedition on one of the world's wildest rivers, the Baliem in New Guinea, for Down The Mighty River with Steve Backshall (BBC Two). Prior to this, Steve featured in the two-part series Extreme Mountain Challenge (BBC Two) and Fierce (ITV). In 2016 Steve co-presented Big Blue Live (BBC One, PBS) from Monterey, California. He also completed an expedition to Venezuela on behalf of the BBC and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One).
Steve’s extreme adventures include Lost Land of the Tiger, Lost Land of the Volcano and Lost Land of the Jaguar (BBC One). He explored a sinkhole for the Emmy Nominated epic Expedition Borneo (BBC One) and trekked to the heart of America’s most inhospitable terrain for Expedition Alaska (Discovery). Closer to home, Steve has presented Britain’s Lost World, Extreme Caving, Inside Out, The One Show, The Nature of Britain and The Really Wild Show.
Steve will be taking to the stage on day 2 of our flagship event and we cant wait to welcome him to Chester Cathedral this November!!!
