Billy Heaney

Speaker, Wildlife Presenter, Zoologist, Filmmaker

A regular panelist on BBC Radio 4’s nature comedy show Nature Table, Billy Heaney has appeared on BBC One’s Countryfile, was a presenter on Nina Constable Media’s Wild World: Doorstep Discoveries, BBC Earth’s digital platforms, and BBC Two’s Springwatch and Winterwatch. One of his appearances featured Orca sightings just off John O’Groats pier. He has produced his own films, one of which,  ‘In Search of the Killer Whale’, was shortlisted in the adventure category of WildFilmFest 2017.

Billy has such a passion for nature. He’s explored the frozen fjords of Iceland in search of orca, tracked down grizzly bears in British Columbia, gone on safari in Sri Lanka in search of elephants, ventured to the other side of the world to find some of Australia’s weirdest critters, and wandered around New Zealand’s rugged coastlines in search of hectors dolphins, fur seals, dusky dolphins and sei whales.

As a wildlife campaigner Billy is involved with a number of charities. He narrated ‘The secret life of badgers’ for The Badger Trust and presented ‘Our life with badgers’ as part of National Badger Day 2021. He is campaigning with Whale and Dolphin Conservation on their “Lockdown Never Ends” and “Goodbye bycatch” campaigns, with the end goal of ending the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity and the accidental capture and killing of dolphins in fishing nets. He has teamed up with ZSL London and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo for Billy’s Day at the Zoo LIVE.

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