Wendy Darke is a British television producer and marine biologist, and the former head of the Natural History Unit (NHU) at the BBC.
[citation needed] From the University of Bristol, she gained a joint-honours degree in Zoology and Geology in 1986;[2] her degree involved visiting the Pyrenees, Mallorca, Falmouth and Osmington Mills, Dorset.
[1] She first served as a camera operator, then director and eventually producer over the following 10 years.
[1] After departing NHU in April 2016,[3] Darke established her own production company, True to Nature, in Bristol in 2016.
[4] Darke won the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award (Royal Geographical Society or RGS), for cinematography in 2016.