British wildlife presenter and father-of-three Steve Backshall encourages parents to nurture their children’s innate curiosity for the natural world, as he has seen firsthand how it can ignite “a fire in their eyes”.
“I’ve been lucky enough to work with kids for a long time now and I find that it is something pretty much universal, that kids do click into the natural world,” says the 52-year-old TV presenter, best known for presenting popular BBC children’s wildlife show Deadly 60. “Kids have an immediate visceral response to seeing a sparrowhawk take a small bird for the first time. They have an immediate response to seeing a sand lizard, which is one of the most beautiful kinds of reptile you’ll find in the entire world.”
