Giles Clark

Giles Clark (born 1978) When he was 14,

In 2003, Clark set up a tiger facility at Australia Zoo in Queensland. He was a friend of its owner Steve Irwin, who died in a stingray attack in 2006. Clark fed Maya every two hours and took her to practice swimming and appear on BBC Breakfast, before leaving her to an independent life around her first birthday. narrated by Andrew Lincoln. The series highlighted the illegal trade in sun bears and moon bears in Laos. The first episode focuses on a sun bear called Mary whom Clark helps raise after she was rescued by Free the Bears Fund. The second episodes continued to follow the bears as they were rehabilitated.

In 2020, Clark was involved in setting up a new state of the art tiger enclosure and announced plans for a new exhibit for Sun Bears at Paradise Wildlife Park.

In July 2025, Clark was awarded an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Kent.