Nigel Marven
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Nigel Marven is a British wildlife
Wildlife
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 presenter
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, television producer
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, author
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, and ornithologist.
Marven studied botany
Botany
Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...

 at Bristol University until the age of 22 when he left to begin his career at the BBC Natural History Unit
BBC Natural History Unit
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 in Bristol
Bristol
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. Over the following years he worked firstly as a wildlife documentary researcher for such programmes as My Family and Other Animals then went on to produce such series as The Land of the Russian Bear.
 
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