James Currie Biography
James Currie is a conservationist and the host of Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV and Nat Geo Wild’s Aerial Assassins.
James Currie Age
James was born on April 9, 1972, in Cape Town, South Africa. He is 51 years old as of April 2023.
James Currie Education
He has a Bachelor’s degree in African languages (he speaks Xhosa, Zulu, and Afrikaans) from the University of Cape Town; a Master of Science in Environmental Management from Middlesex University; and a Diploma in Environmental Management from the University of Cape Town.
James Currie Family- Parents
Currie was born and raised in the South African city of Cape Town. His parents owned and ran the restaurant at Table Mountain’s Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
James Currie Wife
Currie is married to his wife Rebecca have three children. They have lived in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, since 2007.
James Currie Career
Currie began birdwatching at the age of seven. He was captivated by the strength and beauty of birds after seeing a black eagle swoop down and catch a rock hyrax directly in front of him. Currie worked as a wildlife and birding tour guide in Africa for more than ten years. From 2004 to 2007, Currie served as the managing director of the Africa Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving rural areas in the continent.
Birding Adventures TV was created, produced, and hosted by Currie. The Nikon-sponsored program made its regional debut in 2009 on Fox Sports Net Florida and Comcast Southeast. The program debuted nationally on NBC Sports Network in 2012. CarbonTV also carries the program It highlights the value of protecting wildlife and bird habitats while concentrating on uncommon and rare birds, “the adventure of birding, the new smells, new bird calls, new wildlife and amazing cultures,” and rare and unusual birds. In contrast to popular belief, Birding Adventures presents birdwatching as an active pastime rather than a passive one. Aside from Florida, episodes have also been shot in far-flung locales like Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Australia, and the Andes Mountains. Every season consists of 13 episodes.
Currie provided footage and commentary for the 2011 comedy The Big Year, which is about a bird-spotting competition. He created a four-part series for the Botswana Tourism Organization in 2012 about the country’s birds. He writes for the blog of the American Birding Association. Currie created The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America, a 24-part series of lectures about birding for The Great Courses by the Teaching Company. Currie started a Kickstarter campaign in 2016 to make the documentary Last of the Big Tuskers, which was motivated by the demise of the largest tusker in the Southern Hemisphere, Isilo. Currie filmed the world’s largest elephants and documented the efforts being made to ensure their survival while traveling throughout South Africa and Kenya.
James Currie Net Worth
Currie has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.