Biologist Dan O’Neill: ‘Could we be the first species to end a mass extinction?’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Dan O’Neill (Image: Provided)

Biologist Dan O’Neill became the first publicly LGBTQ+ television presenter to host a wildlife series with his 2023 series Giants. Here, the leader of the STEM category of Attitude 101, empowered by Bentley (see here for the full list of the 10 influential figures who made the 2025 Attitude 101 STEM list). he describes the adrenaline rush of tracking snow leopards through the Gobi Desert for his latest series.

Bleak, unthinkably vast, yet undeniably beautiful, Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is the kind of place that forces you to confront the fact that you are, potentially, totally insignificant. It is a fact that is both unnerving and oddly comforting. The Gobi Desert holds a rare kind of wonder: it acts as a reflection. It compels you to look back at yourself and question

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