Gordon Buchanan, hailed as Scotland’s own David Attenborough, will bring his live show ‘Lions and Tigers and Bears with Gordon Buchanan’, to The Wyvern Theatre on Thursday 5 February.
Best known through appearances on TV shows including Big Cat Diary and the Lost Land Of The… series, Gordon Buchanan has dedicated his life to exploring the untamed beauty of the natural world, seeking to capture majestic bears and big cats on film and reveal their secrets to a global audience.
Gordon Buchanan said: “We’ve got a primal fear of Lions and Tigers and Bears… but we welcome them into our homes. I’m really excited about doing the tour again! 2025 has been a crazy year, starting with the first outing of the tour, and I’ve rounded it off with filming again in Botswana, then also in Kenya, and now I can count down to the first show back on tour.
“I’m very spoilt seeing lions and tigers and bears in the wild – so it’s exciting to have the opportunity to tour the country and share these stories with thousands of people, being able to give them a sense of what it is like to get up close to polars in the Arctic, how fast you need to run to escape a sloth bear and what it’s like to bottle feed grizzlies.
“Knowing that the show has been a success, and that audiences had a great time, makes it easier to prepare and look forward to going back out there. One of the joys of a live tour is seeing people leaving with a smile on their face, having had a fun, inspiring and uplifting evening, and I can’t wait to experience that again."
Gordon’s incredible 30-year career capturing the lives of Mother Nature’s greatest beasts on camera began thanks to a chance meeting in a local pub on the Isle of Mull with one of wildlife filmmaking’s greats, acclaimed survival cameraman, Nick Gordon.
While getting up close to some of the world’s wildest animals, Gordon has also seen huge changes to the natural environment first hand.
“In the early 1990s I spent a lot of time in the then-vast wilderness of the Brazilian Amazon – I remember flying over unbroken forest for hour after hour as we flew. This heart of South America was wild.
“I did the same journey a few years later, and that forest was gone. In that landscape there were species of plants, mammals, insects, fish which were completely unknown to science – lost before we even knew they had ever existed.”
And despite that stark observation, Gordon remains hopeful for the future: “There are amazing things being done to renature, rewild parts of the world. We need to celebrate the things being done to support nature.
“The bad news is going to tell itself anyway. I have a platform, and while others may give a less cheery view, the positive can and will inspire young people.”
For more information and to purchase tickets for Lions and Tigers and Bears with Gordon Buchanan go to www.gordon-buchanan.co.uk
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