Billy is an outgoing, adventurous zoologist, wildlife tour guide, keen paddle-boarder and broadcaster. He is a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4's nature comedy show ‘Nature Table,’ he has appeared on BBC One’s Countryfile and ITV This Morning, as well as BBC Two’s ‘SpringWatch, WinterWatch,’ and BBC Earth’s digital platforms.

Billy graduated from the University of Exeter with a BSc in Zoology and a Masters by Research, where he studied grey seal haul-out colonies around Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. He is a Campaign Champion for the world’s leading global NGO dedicated to whales and dolphins, Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC). He’s an ambassador for The Mammal Society and produces a wildlife road trip YouTube series for Opticron.

He works on a freelance basis as a wildlife-tour guide, most recently with Hebridean Adventures on week-long cruises around the inner isles, and during his time at University, he spent most of his time outside of lectures guiding on wildlife cruises from Falmouth Harbour. His passion for whales and dolphins has taken him all over the world, from the bracing west coast of Iceland in search of herring-feeding orca to the tropical Indian sub-continent in search of blue whales, all the way down to New Zealand in search of the world’s smallest oceanic dolphins, the Hector’s. 

He has been fascinated by orca since he was two years old and is currently campaigning with WDC and WeWhale to phase out orca captivity and to protect the endangered, isolated Iberian orca population. Billy has also appeared on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ and BBC World Service’s ‘The Inquiry’ to discuss the interactions taking place between orca and recreational boaters in the Straits of Gibraltar. 

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