Fergus Beeley

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Fergus Beeley
Born1962
Tonbridge, Kent
OccupationTelevision producer

Fergus Michael Edmund Beeley (born 1962)

BBC Natural History Unit in 1990 and has produced series including Planet Earth: The Future and The Life of Birds in collaboration with David Attenborough
.

Early life

Beeley was born in

Hatfield College) with a degree in anthropology, earning a 2:2.[3] He completed his thesis with the Pitjantjatjara tribe of Aboriginals in central Australia.[4]

Career

Beeley joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1990 and has produced natural history programmes for television. These include the documentary series

PBS Nature
: "Jungle Eagle".

A month before Beeley was due to depart to

air ambulance for surgery on a broken ankle. This meant he could not be on location with the crew for filming and had to assist via GPS and edit from his hospital bed.[5][6]

In 2009 Beeley spent a year in the rural Scottish Highlands on Beinn Eighe and neighbouring Loch Maree, filming the documentary "A Highland Haven".[7][8][9]

Conservation

Beeley is the creator of a community conservation project called the BLUE Campaign, which encourages anyone with access to a green space to give a piece back to nature to promote biodiversity.[10]

Controversies

In July 2017, Beeley was involved in a road rage incident in which he informed a family that he was placing them under a citizen's arrest. Beeley was filmed telling the family to "get ready to die" and that he "wanted them dead". Two claims of assault were made but neither party pursued the matter further.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Search Results for Britain records | findmypast.co.uk". www.findmypast.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
  2. ^ "Search Results for Britain records | findmypast.co.uk". www.findmypast.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
  3. ^ "Durham University gazette, 1984/85". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  4. ^ Travel, Steppes. "Fergus Beeley". www.steppestravel.com.
  5. ^ PBS, Irene. "Filmmaker Interviews". www.pbs.org.
  6. ^ McNeill, Jim (24 August 2007). "Arctic diary: Tracking wolves". www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ^ Wollaston, Sam (4 December 2009). "Natural World: Highland Haven and Wonderland". www.theguardian.com.
  8. ^ Heritage, Scottish Natural. "When Fergus Met Beinn" (PDF). www.snh.org.uk.
  9. ^ Beeley, Fergus (23 April 2008). "Highland Diary: Remote munro". www.bbc.co.uk.
  10. ^ Sims, Aaron (20 October 2016). "Chipping Sodbury to pilot national biodiversity campaign encouraging people to help nature by 'doing less'". www.gazetteseries.co.uk.
  11. ^ "Ex-BBC man Fergus Beeley issues 'I want you dead' threat". BBC. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  12. ^ "Man tries to put 11-year-old and his family under citizen's arrest then says 'get ready to die' in bizarre road rage video". The Independent. Retrieved 1 May 2021.

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