About Me 

My name is Andrew Ucles (you-cools), I’m a passionate and eccentric Australian Wildlife and Survival Expert.

From a very young age I have taught myself how to capture and handle some of Australia’s most Dangerous Wildlife barehanded. With a unique approach to nature, my skill set has adapted and evolved on multiple continents essentially crafting personalized techniques on survival and wildlife engagement.

As a result of filming my career encyclopaedic captures I have been recognized internationally amongst industry professionals and have hosted television series on an international platform.

My prior academic undertakings in a Bachelor Degree of Environmental Science helped in consolidating my scientific understandings of the natural world and the concurrent effects of the environment.

I have dedicated my life to promoting the natural world by encouraging the public to connect, immerse and interact with nature to promote the principles of Conservation and Preservation for the future.

My Goals

The goals that I set to achieve are the ones which are the greatest of challenges.

I have a very strong visionary component of my career this has helped in guide the decisions I make about life choices and lead to the path I am on today.

Part of my goal is showcasing my interaction and engagement with wildlife species in a way which has never been done before, as I take the audience on a journey education is my main objective.

My recent ambitions have seen a focus on Survival Training; as such, I am currently enlisted with the Australian Army’s: NORFORCE (the North West Mobile Force). My plan being to undertake a series of specialty courses with the goal of becoming an Environmental Survival Instructor within the Australian Defence Force.

Purpose

I have always wanted to become wild and could never understand till today why we live in a society where everything around us has become provided through materialism.

I have taken this life as an individual quest; I was not born attached to a set of guidelines on how to live or how to think. I believe our instincts are a series of evolutionary embedded codes which we all have; my personal mission is to unlock these codes and show the world what it takes to reveal them.

We are all born wild but it’s a choice to be tame.

My purpose supports both humanity and the environment, from promoting indigenous culture and knowledge to protecting wildlife and there natural habitats.

Personal Life

I’m 34 years old; I keep my personal life off social media platforms and prefer a private life.

I have a large supportive network of family and friends who are supporting my goals of promoting and educating the public about Australian wildlife.

My older sister, mother and father are my biggest critics and strongest supporters. I was brought up in a middle class European lifestyle setting on the frontier of the Illawarra escarpment.

Social and family conservations revolved around financial sustainability through ones career, I was quick to develop a dislike to this line of thinking, I could see my vision it was instinct to follow it.

From a young age I perceived life differently; whilst other kids would be playing at the skate park, I would be in the bush catching highly venomous snakes and spiders.

Education

With a searing fascination for the natural world I continued my studies after Year 12 to study a Bachelor of Environmental Science at the University of Western Sydney. I’ve always had a hunger for knowledge and believe education is the key to success.

It was here that I could align my interests with industry academics and contribute my knowledge not just to my peers but to the students which are now all respective professionals in their own fields.

I would like to continue my studies in the retrospect of the natural world and survival genre; I would like to pursue the ADF officer role with an ambition of attending the Officer Candidate School, but will also like to parallel this undertaking with a Master’s Degree in Conservation Biology.