Join David Ireland as he encounters the world’s most amazing, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous creatures on his incredibly exciting wildlife adventures. As one of the world’s most experienced and highly respected wildlife film producers and presenters, David’s knowledge and ability to interact with creatures is legendary. In central Australia some 500 000 wild camels roam the desert country materializing from the scrub like spirits. The elder bushmen describe these beasts as ‘Desert Ghosts’.
This film was shot on Kangaroo island in South Australia in full widescreen HD quality. The animal encounters will amaze nature lovers. They include echidna, meat ants, tiger snakes, possums, koala, goanna, penguin, kangaroo, wallaby, New Zealand fur seals, sea lions, huge groper and one of the rarest creatures in the world, the leafy sea dragon. The action, scenery and animal encounters keep viewers firmly in their seats, especially when David swims with the rare Australian sea lion and when David catches with his bare hands a tiger snake! 50 minute duration Rated (G)
In this episode David takes his audience on a wonderful expedition from outback NSW into the extremely remote wilderness of far northern Australia. His mission is to encounter some of the strangest reptiles and deadly snakes in Australia, including the death adder. On the expedition he encounters wild horses, feral goat herds, scrub bulls and swims in crocodile infested rivers and springs as he catches jungle pythons and strange file snakes. David's encounter with the fastest land snake in Australia and his deadly death adder encounter will amaze viewers. The film Outback Serpents is more than animal encounters but also a chance for people to see outback Australia at its best. Magnificent mountain ranges, deep river gorges and crystal clear springs that are home to very strange reptiles. Filmed in widescreen digital format. 50 minute duration. Rated (G)
One of the most powerful marine animals for its weight and size is the giant moray eel, however regardless of their reputation the species is in dire trouble surviving in the modern world. David's mission in this film is to track a giant moray down and attempt to hand feed the monster to learn more about the animal. David travels to a remote Indian Ocean island in search of his eel. While on location on Christmas Island, David encounters some of the rarest birds on earth that are strictly endemic to the island. He also finds huge giant crabs and explores shipwrecks and undersea caves. Eventually David finds his giant eel and the encounter makes documentary history with its action. Giant Moray Eel represents one of David Ireland's finest productions. Filmed in widescreen digital. 50 min duration. Rated (G)
David travels to Papua New Guinea in search of humpback whales. He manages to dive American B17 bomber wrecks, virgin coral reefs and even explores head hunter caves and volcanoes, but all his diving, fails to locate the whales. David then travels to the islands of Tonga and after weeks of trying, he eventually locates male humpbacks fighting for the rights to mate with a female. The underwater footage David and his crew gain during the males aggressive behaviour is both dangerous and spectacular. Eventually David manages to find a female humpback whale with a one day old baby at her side. The scenes of David swimming with the new born whale represent some of the finest underwater footage ever recorded. 50 minute duration. Rated (G)
The ocean has many huge species of animals, creatures that literally dwarf a man in size. In this film, David goes in search of some of the giant fish that swim the Australian waters. His quest takes him from a Queensland shipwreck where he encounters numerous giant fish species, to a known shark gutter where David rescues a shark from certain death, to Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. At Ningaloo David encounters a huge tiger shark, hand feeds reef sharks and swims with a giant groper. The film climaxes with David swimming with a 16 metre long whale shark, the largest species of fish to ever live! 44 minute duration. Rated (G)
David's quest is to highlight the plight of the Wobbegong Shark as its numbers continue to decline from over fishing. During the films production David travels the NSW coast in search of Wobbegong sharks. During weeks of diving he encounters an amazing diversity of creatures. Some of the animal encounters are dangerous, like when David hand feeds giant stingrays and stimulates a monster ray to attack! David hand feeds eels, giant cuttlefish and has an angry grey nurse try and bite his head. The climax of the film is when David hand feeds Wobbegong Sharks on deepwater reefs off the Solitary Islands. The footage achieved in the making of this film attracted a Sixty Minutes story on David's fight to save sharks from extinction. 44 minute duration. Rated (G)
David goes in search of a wild boar that attacked and nearly killed an aboriginal elder in outback Australia. He travels to northern NSW to a sheep station that is literally infested with feral pigs during one of the worst droughts ever recorded in the state. David encounters and culls many wild pigs by using tracker dogs and a knife. For the first time on TV, David also takes down wild boars with the use of a bow an arrow and eventually tracks down the wild boar responsible for the lethal attack on the old aboriginal man. This film is rated PG and not suitable for children. 44 minute duration. Rated (PG)
David's quest is to film one of the last of the big tuskers elephants of Southern Africa. His African expedition proves to be a bonanza of African animal encounters as David catches a giant striking rock python, gets extremely close to lions and leopards, walks onto 5 angry rhino and is even chased by an angry bull elephant. All the big five animals of Africa are filmed and all animal encounters are at extremely close range. The highlights are the leopard and hippo encounters and a very close encounter with an African warthog. The film climaxes with an encounter with a huge big tusker elephant. The film was shot at the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve and all footage was gained from a topless/doorless jeep and also on foot in the African wilderness. 44 minute duration. Rated (G)
David and his wife Susan travel to the head-hunter islands of the South Pacific in search of the giant " Devil Fish". The expedition takes them diving on sunken second world war shipwrecks where they encounter war relics and magnificent marine life. They explore a flooded jungle and encounter dangerous crocodiles that have never before been filmed and catch strange snakes on Skull Island, a place that will send shivers down your spine. The film climaxes on the great barrier reef on lady Elliot Island where David arguably achieves some of the most spectacular marine animal footage ever achieved in his 40 years of diving the worlds oceans. (50 minute, High Definition wide-screen format).
In This episode of the Wildlife Man David travels to Cape York in far north Australia to explore the extremely remote billabong country, however once in this exotic part of outback Australia David encounters mobs of wild boars that have taken over the billabongs and are destroying the pristine country and waterways by wallowing, spreading disease and completly striping the vegetation from the billabongs. David manages to achieve documentary footage of these highly dangerous and destructive feral pigs. David culls on boar with his bow, so this film is not for children or the faint hearted. While in Norther Australia David works with local Aboriginals catching pigs with their hunting dogs and has snake encounters that have to be seen to be believed. 44 minute duration. Rated (G)
In this episode David explores two amazing marine habitats, an underwater volcano off the coast of New Zealand and the coral reefs of Lady Elliot Island of the Great Barrier Reef. David`s mission to work with huge stingrays, deadly sea snakes, giant groper and numerous species of sea turtles. Some of the action scenes are highly dangerous for David to achieve, but as with all his Wildlife Man episodes, highly educational and entertaining.
In this episode of the Wildlife Man, David takes his 10 year old son Jason and his dog " Misty" a white golden retriever into the wilderness of Australia, here, they experiences the magic of the " Outback" from rugged rivers and canyons to old gold mining ghost towns. Jason encounters exotic dragon lizards and aggressive snakes and learns survival skills from his father the " Wildlife Man" Then Jason learns to SCUBA dive and in the safe hands of his father he encounters stingrays and sharks and explores a magnificent coral garden. Jason's then meets a huge creature that is a cousin to the giant squid, the climax of the film is simply unbelievable!!
In this episode of the Wildlife Man, David Ireland goes in search of a Fijian Sea God, a huge bull shark. To attract the shark up from the depths of an ocean trench, David and his Fijian shark men bait the water with hundreds of pounds of Tuna, without the protection of cages, David and his crew achieve unbelievable shark action footage.Over 30 bull sharks come in for the feed, until eventually the " Shark God " a huge territorial female shark is attracted by the smell of the tuna blood. The dominant shark is not happy to find David so close to the baits and challenges the Wildlife Man again and again. "Sea God" is arguably the most extreme shark film ever produced and one of the " Wildlife Man`s" greatest achievements.
This episode was filmed in East Timor, David`s goal is to dive unexplored reefs that literally drop thousands of meters into the depths, David encounters some strange creatures that may have never been filmed before and also finds undersea treasure! While on location in this exotic island, David and his old friend Mark encounter a huge snake with a head the size of a small alligator, but their is a sobering part to David`s expedition to East Timor, the refugee children and especially what David attempts to achieve with them.
Join David Ireland, "The Wildlife Man" on yet another one of his amazing wildlife adventures where he explores two fascinating marine environments, the Great Barrier Reef and the seldom dived reefs of Norfolk Island. There, he encounters giant groper, 5 meter wide manta rays, deadly sea snakes, stingrays and one of the rarest sea creatures ever filmed.
My Wildlife Man film " Bush Beasts" will be screened on Nine and Win TV Australia wide on the 2nd Jan 2016 prime time at 4PM. The film is not for the faint hearted or children, it contains scenes of me culling feral mountain goats, foxes and wild boars. Rifle, bow, knife, traps and baiting. Feral animals are a direct cause of local extinction of native animals in Australia and that is why I produced this film. Bush Beasts will educate but also shock some viewers. It is important that people know that there are more feral pigs in Australia than people and that while making the film we could not see a single square foot around the banks of the billabongs in Cape York that had not been dug up by pigs.
