Eleanor 'Ellie' Harrison is a British ecologist, journalist and television presenter.

Ellie was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire on 17 November 1977 and grew up in rural Gloucestershire, "living off the land".^[1] At various times she worked in Zimbabwe, camped by and canoed on Lake Kariba and visited both Canada and Zimbabwe to observe wildlife before going to university. She has a BA from King's College, London, where she studied Geography and Ecology, graduating in 2000.

She has worked for the BBC on shows such as The One Show,^[2] Michaela's Wild Challenge,^[3] Wild About Your Garden,^[2][3] and Country Tracks, and for the Discovery Channel on Daily Planet. Harrison is currently a reporter on the BBC's Countryfile.

In 2010, for Country Tracks, Ellie flew above Derbyshire on a hang glider with Airways Airsports instructor Andy Snell. ^[4]

Little is known about Ellie's personal life, except that she's married and has two small children, born in 2009 and 2011.

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ "Biography". Personal Website. http://www.ellie-harrison.com/biog.html. Retrieved 2009-01-25. 
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Ellie Harrison at the Internet Movie Database
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Presenters". Wild about your Garden. BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildaboutyourgarden/presenters/. 
4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tn9ht

External linksEdit

• "Personal website". http://www.ellie-harrison.com/. 
• Ellie Harrison at the Internet Movie Database