Wildlife & Photographic Safaris

Our depth and breadth of knowledge of wildlife locations and experience in arranging exceptional bespoke safaris is acknowledged by our long-standing partnerships with BBC Wildlife and the Born Free Foundation, which span two decades.

Our safaris are extraordinarily rewarding wildlife experiences. They offer rare windows of opportunities to travel in search of endangered species in the wild with world-class naturalists and wildlife photographers including Simon King, Chris Packham and Stephen Mills. They are skilled in tracking species and working with park authorities and local guides, providing you with the very best chances of seeing tigers, polar bears, mountain gorillas etc and getting frame-filling photographs, witnessing moments of remarkable animal behaviour as well as enjoying all creatures great and small.

We are trusted for our excellence, the personal service and value for money we provide. Everything is included on our safaris and we do not cut corners. An accompanying safari director takes care of all the arrangements and logistics, freeing the guest naturalist to focus on finding really special wildlife experiences to share with you.You usually have exclusive use of the best and most comfortable lodges and camps and private 4-WD safari vehicles and, when appropriate, we charter our own small planes to maximise the amount of time spent in the bush

We are continually researching new locations, camps and lodges and re-visiting old ones to ensure that our product knowledge is up-to-date and accurate, so that we can offer you new experiences and the best chances of seeing species. Visits to local conservation and research projects can greatly enhance your wildlife experience.

To see endangered species in the wild involves travelling to distant lands.However remote the destination or challenging the environment, you can relax knowing that everything will be organised for you, that you will be well cared for and that there is full professional back-up support, with a team on the ground and back at our head office.

Nothing is forever except extinction... so we urge you to go now and see tigers, polar bears, mountain gorillas etc in their natural habitat before it is too late.

Simon King OBE is one of the most respected and popular television presenters – and features in the Spring & Autumn Watch series and the Big Cat Diary from The Mara.Simon is an outstanding photographer and filmmaker and has received EMMY & BAFTA awards for his work in Planet Earth, Blue Planet and Life in the Freezer. Simon is a passionate, enthusiastic, gentle and caring naturalist, as portrayed in ‘Toki’s Tale’ a moving documentary about a rescued cheetah.


Chris Packham is a television presenter, award-winning photographer and author with a resolute concern for conservation and the environment. He is well known as the presenter on Spring and Autumnwatch, Countryfile, Inside Out, Nature’s Calendar, Hands on Nature, Postcards from the Wild, Bird Watch, Go Wild, Really Wild Show and many more. Chris is immensely passionate and knowledgeable about all things that slime, sting and scratch! He is also an avid bird-watcher.

Stephen Mills is a professional naturalist, known for his work on studying tigers in India and Nepal. He wrote the BBC film Tiger Crisis, which helped to bring to international attention the rise in poaching for trade in tiger parts. As a writer, producer and cameraman,Stephen has made 35 films for TV, including Land of The Tiger, Man-Eater: To Be or Not To Be, and is author of the BBC book ‘Tiger’. He is a good all-round naturalist and a keen bird-watcher.


Dr Julie Anderson is a biological anthropologist and TV presenter. She is a leading primate conservationist and Director & Scientific Advisor of the Colobus Trust in Kenya. Julie presented the recent BBC TV series Living with Monkeys, about western lowland gorilla ecology and behaviour and red-capped mangabey. Her enthusiasm, breadth of knowledge, sense of adventure and warm personality make Julie a perfect host for a primate safari.


Jonathan and Angie Scott are both award-wining world class wildlife photographers. Jonathan Scott won Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 1987 and Angie Scott in 2002. Jonathan is a well known TV presenter on Big Cat Diary, Wildest Dreams, Elephant Diaries and many other wildlife films and series. Their books include The Marsh Lions and Stars of Big Cat Diary. Africa is their home, wildlife is their subject, photography is their expertise and hosting photographic safaris is always a pleasure.

David Lindo is ‘The Urban Birder’ as seen on the One Show. Birding with David is different - he’s young, dynamic and passionate about urban birding because there is the most amazing variety of wildlife to be discovered in all cities and towns. He aims to make more people aware about the wilder side of cities and towns across the globe and has started by establishing the Tower 42 Bird Study Group in London, which monitors and watches urban wildlife including bird migrations and raptor activity above Canary Wharf. David hopes to open ‘Tower 42’ projects in other capital cities. The Urban Birder has a regular column in
BBC Wildlife and Bird Watching Magazines.

Prof. Claudio Sillero is the Founder and Director of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme, Head of Conservation at the Born Free Foundation, and holds the post of Bill Travers Fellow for Wildlife Conservation at Oxford University, supervising its projects worldwide. He is also active in several IUCN Specialist Groups and runs the Satpura Landscape Tiger Project in central India and the Andean Cats and Transfrontier Conservation Project in South America. He is a passionate sustainable conservationist actively committed in mitigating wildlife-human conflict through his personal initiatives.

Dominic Couzens is a leading ornithologist and one of the most prolific writers of bird books. Dominic enjoys discovering new and remote birding sites, searching for extreme species and sharing his experiences with small intimate groups of birders. He has travelled widely in search of birds and the world’s top birding sites. Dominic writes regular for natural history magazines including BBC Wildlife and Bird Watching.

Dr Greg Rasmussen is Director and founder of Painted Dog Research (1992) now Painted Dog Conservation. He is a senior conservation biologist who spends almost all of his time researching African wild dogs in Zimbabwe and other African countries. Greg had a horrific plane crash in the African bush in 2003, which was featured in the Channel 4’s ‘ Alive’ and Discovery Channel’s ‘I shouldn’t be alive’ series.