Get off that sun bed - Its time to take ‘A Day for Nature’

A refreshing and engaging holiday programme is set to hit our television screens in November when The Travel Channel premieres 'A Day for Nature'

Taking travel programming on the wild side, the series recognises the trend for responsible eco-tourism and amongst other things highlights the fun of seeing wildlife that’s sometimes just a few hundred yards from the doors of the resorts. Wildlife that often goes unnoticed!

Produced by travel programming veterans, Hall TV, the four half hour episodes aim to encourage holidaymakers to take one day out of their vacation and explore the nature reserves, seashores and oceans that they may otherwise ignore.

Presenter Richard Hall takes the viewer on an informal, informative and humorous journey to well known holiday destinations and then explores the beautiful and exotic flora and fauna to be found there, from manatees and wild boar at Cape Canaveral, to flying lemurs a few kilometres from the bustling heart of Singapore, or even coral, surviving on the Mediterranean coast of Benidorm.

The series also includes a rare glimpse behind the scenes at Disney's Animal Kingdom, where Hall contemplates and questions whether the theme park is merely there to profit from an entertaining day out, or if it’s genuinely trying to change people's perceptions of the plight of wildlife on our planet.

Once described by the Times as a cross between Floyd and Clarkson, Hall freely admits, "the more I travel, the more I realise just how much I'm missing.  Each location, no matter how developed, has its own unique natural history.  Take Acapulco for instance - how many people are aware that it boasts one of the largest frigate bird colonies in South America?”