Gordon John Buchanan MBE (born 10 April 1972) is a Scottish wildlife cameraman, filmmaker and presenter.

[2] Buchanan's career in wildlife photography has yielded a number of documentaries, shot variously in Asia (especially the Indian Subcontinent), Latin America, Europe, and Africa.

[4] Buchanan was there for almost a year before the project had to be abandoned due to the danger presented by the civil unrest in the country.

[3] He left school to join Nick Gordon on this trip and continued to work with him on his next projects in Venezuela and Brazil.

[11] In 2013 Buchanan became a patron of Trees for Life, a conservation charity working to restore the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland.

For this series, The Snow Wolf Family & Me, Buchanan visited Ellesmere Island in Canada in both summer and autumn.

During these six episodes he spent time with several groups of people who lived alongside dangerous animals, such as hyenas and crocodiles.

He also filmed a six part series titled '‘Into the Wild’', in which he took six famous people to nature hotspots around the UK to get a glimpse of the local wildlife.

[22] In April 2022, the first two episodes of a long-running program Our Changing Planet premiered on the BBC, presented by Buchanan along with Liz Bonnin, Ella Al-Shamahi, Chris Packham, Ade Adepitan and Steve Backshall.

Buchanan was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to conservation and wildlife film-making.