Bradley Trevor Greive

Bradley Trevor Greive Bradley Trevor Greive (BTG) was born on the untamed island of Tasmania and graduated from The Royal Military College (the equivalent of USMA West Point) before serving in the Australian army as a paratrooper commander.

Following his military service, BTG pursued a creative career, first as a newspaper cartoonist with the Sydney Morning Herald, and then as humorist and nature writer. Today he is the award-winning author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, with more than 30,000,000 copies sold across 115 countries.

During a sabbatical year, BTG completed three terms as the Executive Creative Consultant in Residence at Walt Disney Imagineering’s elite Blue Sky think tank, after which he relocated to Los Angeles to pursue an interest in television and film, and founded his American production company, Tasmanian Grizzly LLC.

Following his role as a voice artist for PIXAR’s animated blockbuster, Finding Nemo, and ‘Twas the Night before Christmas, he became the resident Late Night TV wildlife expert on both Chelsea Lately (E!) and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS). Since then, BTG has produced and hosted numerous wildlife series and documentaries for Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, NBC/Peacock, and Netflix, including Fear Island: Fortress of the Bears, Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved, Queer Planet, Little Giants, and the animated semi-autobiographical wildlife comedy, Adventure Beast. In addition, BTG’s international bestselling nonfiction book, Penguin Bloom – The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family, was made into a major motion picture, starring Naomi Watts, Jacki Weaver, and Andrew Lincoln.

BTG has also produced for the stage, including sold out shows for legendary Monty Python alum, John Cleese (An Intimate Evening with John Cleese), and a new production of The Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at Australia’s iconic Sydney Opera House.

Among his more curious achievements, BTG is a Cosmonaut Graduate of the Russian Space Program (2004, Star City, Moscow), and the French Polynesian Rock-Lifting Champion (2006, Ha’a’piti, Moorea). He was also Chairman of the National Youth Poetry Prize for six years. During several years of field research, BTG worked alongside Tlingit elders to provide evidence of a new gigantic Alaskan late-Pleistocene hybrid brown bear sub-species, in the Alexander Archipelago.

He has endured over twenty surgeries and eight treatments for rabies treatments for rabies, so far. His left nipple was partially torn off by an enraged reindeer.

BTG grew up a devotee of Gerald Durrell and is an internationally respected champion for wildlife and wild places. For the past 30 years he has led or funded at least one wildlife conservation program on every continent. In addition to being a Board Member of the Longneck Manor Conservation Foundation, BTG is the Governor of the Taronga Conservation Society of Australia, Founding Patron of Painted Dog Conservation Inc (Zimbabwe), Honorary International Conservation Program Ambassador for Fort Worth Zoo (USA), Life Benefactor of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (UK), a Member of the New Zoo Council (USA), and an Advisory Board Member of the Wildlife Learning Center (USA).

In appreciation for his service to Alaskan Native culture, BTG and his family were formally adopted by the Deisheetaan clan of the Tlingit People of Southeast Alaska. BTG is also the recipient of the Order of Australia (2014) for his service to literature and wildlife conservation (the equivalent of a British Knighthood, and the US Presidential Medal of Freedom). A dual Australian-American Citizen, BTG lives in California with his wife, Amy (Jaa.auwdo.laat), and their two inexplicably gorgeous children, Genevieve (Kaasaandoo.oo), and Barrett (Kaa jaax daa keen.aa).