Iolo Williams

Iolo Williams is a Welsh naturalist conservationist and campaigner Born in Builth Wells Breconshire in the heart of rural Wales his family moved to Pembrokeshire in the west of the country before moving to Montgomeryshire when he was aged five to live in Llanwddyn Iolo went on to study London England for a degree in ecology at North East London Polytechnic After graduating he went on to work for the RSPB for almost 15 years as Species Officer for Wales a job he loved as he worked with some of the countrys rarest breeding birds Eventually this brought him to the attention of the media and BBC 2s Visions of Snowdonia and Birdman followed Iolos work as an RSPB officer In the late 1990s Iolo left the Society to work fulltime in the media His series in both Welsh and English concentrated on the wildlife of Wales and the world and he copresented several network series such as Natures Top 40 and Countryfile In 2019 Iolo became a regular presenter on BBC Televisions flagship nature programmes Winterwatch Springwatch and Autumnwatch Iolo has written several books on Welsh wildlife in both English and Welsh and he is a regular contributor to several magazines including BBC Wildlife Iolo is a keen sportsman having played rugby for most of his life and also a qualified paraglider PADI Divemaster