Wildlife is the second collaboration between Anthony Phillips and Joji Hirota.

The album is culled from recordings made between 1994 and 2000 when Anthony and Joji collaborated on a number of soundtracks for wildlife television programmes in the British Survival series.

In addition, Anthony also wrote and recorded the music for a programme in the BBC series Natural World.

All programmes represented come from the Survival series except "Midway - Island of Life" which comes from Natural World.

Several of the Survival programmes were filmed by the late Nick Gordon and the sleeve notes for the album include Ant's specially written tribute to Nick.