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Most recently, Sasha
could be seen co-presenting new series with Bill Bailey
on Channel 4 called Wild Thing – I Love You. The team
investigated the plight of animals being threatened by a
particular local problem. They travel all over the UK in
search of critters in peril - from a family of Otters in
Newcastle who need an otter sized bridge built under a
main flyover to stop them from being killed on the road,
to an endangered group of porpoises in Cornwall who are
under serious threat from fisherman’s gill nets.
Sasha has had a life long love
affair with the natural world and if she could have one
wish it would be for people to be as excited about
conservation as they are about the World Cup. She
graduated from Bristol University with fist class
honours and a prize for Zoology in 1993, and went on to
do a D.Phil at New College, Oxford, looking at what male
birds were saying with their colourful feathers. During her
time there she freelanced: raising baby woodmice for the
BBC; researching for Conservation International to
advise the World Bank on the world's most endangered
habitats; and publishing poetry on radio and in print.
After finishing her D.Phil in 1998, she took a
lectureship at Pembroke College Oxford, teaching Ecology
and Environmental Science.
As a freelance writer Sasha has worked for the Discovery
Channel, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian and Oxford Today. At
the end of 1999 she wrote her first article for the
RSPB's Birds, an overview of the organisation, and then
she wrote for every issue of the magazine until June
2003. In 2000 she co-edited an Encyclopaedia of Mammals
for the Oxford University Press, which involved the work
of 200 scientists. Sasha wrote "Superkids, 200 ways for
kids to save the world" in 2003.
Between 2000 and 2004 Sasha produced and presented a
weekly thirty minute wildlife show, 'Wild' on Oxford's
Six TV, for which she was nominated 'Best New Talent' by
the Royal Televison Society. In 2000 she set up a
registered charity 'Siren', which works internationally
to inspire people to protect their wildlife. Siren
received a prestigious Darwin Award in 2002 for work
with wild dogs in Zimbabwe, and in 2004 received a grant
from Vodafone with Tusk Trust to create a series of
films on sustainability for African audiences. Sasha
designed and wrote the accompanying book Africa Our
Home.
For further information please contact
Sara Cameron on 020 7209 3777 |