Pride & joy

Gordon Buchanan on his love of filming Botswana’s lions

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN, STEVEN PERKINS, VICTORIA WILSON

Botswana’s Okavango Delta is one of Africa’s last remaining wildernesses and home to an array of lions, cheetahs and leopards.

In BBC2’s Big Cats 24/7, a team of international wildlife filmmakers – including the UK’s Gordon Buchanan – follow the Okavango Delta’s magnificent felines, using cutting-edge technology to record their activities around the clock.

‘We’re not just filming them, we’re trying to understand everything that’s going on in their world,’ says Buchanan. ‘During this project, everything else in your life sort of disappears – it’s all about the particular cats that you’re after.’