Mag Wildwood

Several posters on here have asked how to contact the show with video clips. I believe it's #Osbornesbelieve

This intrepid 34 year old American, armed with nothing more than a huge ego and a biology degree crashes around remote(ish) jungles with a full camera crew, local porters and guides, in search of extinct species that experienced, respected zoologists have not been able to find for decades, sometimes centuries. To date, Forest Gallant (not his real name) has been able to find an incredible 16 previously extinct species. That's right, 16! Unbelievable, isn't it? And he's managed to do this despite having no training, no research qualifications, no published papers, no connection whatsoever with any zoological societies or wildlife agencies, just his 2.2 biology degree and an expensive set of dazzling teeth. In the space of two television series, Gallant and his camera crew have crashed through remote(ish) forests, stomped across jungle floors, and churned up sea and river waters in this amazingly successful quest. Clearly, Gallant's sensitive, habitat-respecting, drone-heavy, camera-trap reliant technique works. Never mind that many zoologists have pointed out that some of these rediscovered species were listed as 'endandangered' rather than 'extinct'; never mind that at least two of the verified rediscoveries were really found by local guides who then alerted Gallant and his crew of their find only to have Gallant then claim the discovery for himself; never mind that another long unseen, presumed extinct turtle species (again, actually found by a local stringer) was removed from her habitat and subsequently died. That's how ecologically sensitive and wildlife loving this camera-hogging Steve Irwin-wannabe is. The worst, most shameful behaviour of Gallant's, is to see how he treats the local people, imposing his comfortable, safe, well-fed, affluent American values on the poverty-stricken indigenous porters, guides, stringers and local helpers, who can feed and clothe themselves and their families for a year on what they earn for a few days work carrying Gallant's and the crew's equipment, showing them the natural habitats of the animals they're seeking and the best places and ways to find them. Just like the endangered and extinct animals, these people are often from tribes that have become dispossessed, having lost their homes for the same reasons as the animals. Watch as Gallant goes on a self-righteous tirade about a drunk porter who he thinks has a gun (turns out it wasn't). Endangered species, whether animal or human, are all just bit players in Gallant's true quest - his fame and fortune.