Dan O'Neill

Dan O'Neill is a wildlife television presenter, field biologist and filmmaker who specialises in large carnivore behaviour, biodiversity monitoring and conservation in remote environments. He has spent more than a decade working on the front line of conservation, and he brings that field experience to the stage as a speaker, host and panel moderator.

In 2026 Dan co-presented Tiger Island for BBC One and PBS, whose first episode reached 2.7 million viewers in the UK. His series Snow Leopards with Dan O'Neill, which he developed, directed and presented, premiered on Love Nature and Sky in October 2025. For most of the shoot only two international crew members were on location, and the series was nominated for the Sustainability Panda Award at the 2025 Wildscreen Festival. He fronted Zombie Animals for National Geographic in 2024 and hosted Giants for Curiosity Stream in 2023, a series presented as the first on a major network hosted by an openly LGBTQ+ wildlife presenter.

For BBC Earth he has presented Snow Leopards: Ghosts in the Snow, Dan O'Neill Investigates, on the illegal wildlife trade and animal cruelty, and After We've Gone. He also presents wildlife and adventure films for BBC One's The One Show. His independent film Queen of Birds, made in western Mindanao about the critically endangered Philippine eagle, has been viewed more than three million times and helped support the protection of a large area of forest.

Dan has led expeditions from the northern Amazon to the mountains of Central Asia and the forests of the Yucatan, working as a large mammal specialist, expedition leader and camera-trap technician. In 2023 he became the Snow Leopard Trust's first Explorer in Residence. He is an Honorary Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he is completing a PhD at the Bristol Veterinary School on using emerging technology to study secretive carnivores.

An advocate for LGBTQ+ representation in STEM, natural history media and adventure, Dan was named in Attitude's 101 Trailblazers list in 2021 and again in 2025, when he led the STEM category. On stage he covers wildlife biology, filmmaking, expeditions, sustainability and conservation technology, and he is at ease on panels that tackle contested questions such as rewilding, hunting, wildlife collaring and the ethics of zoos.