Iolo Williams - A Career in Conservation

Presented by Shropshire Wildlife Trust: ‘Iolo Williams - a Career in Conservation’. Join Iolo as he recounts tales from his childhood as well as his working career.

Iolo Williams has been a familiar face on our television screens for nearly 20 years but before that, he spent 15 years working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Wales.

From red kites to mountain gorillas and hen harriers to grizzly bears, Iolo has been fortunate enough to work with them all as well encountering egg-collectors, pigeon fanciers and the SAS along the way.

Iolo Williams was born in Builth Wells, and when he was 5 years old moved to the small village of Llanwddyn in north Powys. From a very early age, he wandered the moors, woods and rivers around his home in search of wildlife, often with the family dog, Bitw.

Nowadays, Iolo can be found presenting wildlife and open-air programmes in English and Welsh on BBC and S4C.