09 March 2013

Ed Stafford, a former British army captain, went into the Peruvian jungle in April 2008.

Eight hundred and sixty days later he came out on the other side of South America having become the first person to achieve the ‘impossible’ by walking the length of the Amazon.

It was an endeavour described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as ‘truly extraordinary’ and ‘in the top league of expeditions past and present’.

Over the course of 6,000 miles Stafford faced starvation, was bitten by scorpions and mosquitoes, accused of murder and threatened and imprisoned by machete-wielding tribesmen.

But Stafford wanted to do something else. It tuns out he wanted to try and survive on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for 60 days with nothing other than a camera for company – not even clothes.

This is his story.

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25 October 2012

 Bristol-based Tigress Productions’ film Hippo: Nature’s Wild Feast has won a Panda Award at this year’s Wildscreen Festival held in Bristol. The win came in the Innovation category and the film also received nominations in the Popular Broadcast and Presenter-led categories.

The programme was produced for Channel 4 and Animal Planet and is a high-tech natural history event that presents the most comprehensive illustration to date of nature’s food chain in action, presented by Mark Evans. Filmed over a week in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley,

Hippo: Nature’s Wild Feast reveals an ecological system in action as Africa’s most iconic animals – including lions, leopards, crocodiles, hyenas and vultures – fight for survival at the height of the dry season.

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14 September 2012

Thinking of something different for your next dinner party?

Perhaps you might want to consider roasting a hippopotamus, suckling- pig style. Crisp it up, put an apple in its mouth.

Very festive, definitely different.  But there are a couple of things you might want to keep in mind, courtesy of a new 2-part Animal Planet special, whimsically called “Eating Giants”.

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30 August 2012

Explorer Ed Stafford is to attempt to stay alive for 60 days on a remote island withour supplies in an extreme survival series for Discovery Channel.

Tigress Productions has been commisioned to produce the 3 x 60-minute Naked and Marooned, in which the former soldier is dropped from a plan onto a desert island in the South Pacific Ocean without clothes or food.

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