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Wildscreen Launches New Industry Summit to Shape the Future of Wildlife Storytelling

Wildscreen has announced the launch of its inaugural edition of the Wildscreen Industry Summit, a new 3-day event designed to help the industry navigate the evolving landscape of natural world storytelling.

What we learnt at Science in Storytelling 2025

That’s a wrap on Science in Storytelling 2025! Featuring a plethora of amazingly talented speakers and scientists, we went on a journey discovering the greatest ways to keep science in the spotlight. Read on to find out our highlights!

Wildscreen Announces Botswana as Location for 2025 African Festival

Wildscreen has announced Maun, Botswana, as the location for its third African-based Wildscreen Festival. BBC Studios Natural History Unit are Headline Sponsor once again and Botswana Ignite is the in-country partner.

Meet Aarushi – Our Wildscreen ARK Media Intern

1. Tell us a bit about your role!

I’m the media intern for Wildscreen ARK. I manage social media for the ARK project from designing cool graphics, writing engaging copies, making cute animal posts to researching about different species for every week that you see on our Instagram.

2. What’s your background?

My life has been a little zig-zag but to cut short – I have a background in business administration but my burning desire to work in the environment and climate change field has influenced my choice of study and work in the last few years. 

I’ve worked with several international organizations before working at Wildscreen, including UN Environment Programme, WWF, Purpose, Clean Air Asia and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network – being the latest one. I’ve worked for almost 5+ years in India with these environmental organizations primarily managing everything between projects, workshops and communications.  

 My passion has brought me to the UK and right now I’m back to student life for a while until I graduate as MSc. in Science Communication.  

 3. What motivates you? 

Power of storytelling and taking every day small steps to learn something new. 

4. If you could change one thing about the natural history industry, what would it be? 

Be more inclusive. Make more regional natural history films around the world – would be good if these are made in local languages too.  

 5. What are your career goals? 

Be able to create an engaging and positive children storybook about climate change – one day!

6. Favourite moment working at Wildscreen? 

It’s just been 7 weeks since I joined Wildscreen. No favourite moment as of yet but my first impression of the office “WOW! there’s more plants than people in here” – which is beautiful isn’t it? 

 7. What’s your favourite story from nature? 

Again, no favourite but – is it not true that everything got a beautiful story to tell? I really enjoyed this one – ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ but it’s a book, does that count? 

8. Describe working for Wildscreen in three words! 

Colourful. Artistic. Storytellers.  

9. If you could turn into any animal for a day, what would you be and why? 

Anything to do with flying or swimming, eagle or a duck, maybe? Why to use animal superpower for walking when you can fly or swim (in my case!).  

 10.What’s a fun fact about you? 

I had a ghostly encounter in Nepal last year but I pretended there’s nothing in the room and stayed in the same room for a week – only to realise afterwards there was definitely something eerie. Can’t watch horror movies the same way now, as I used to :’)