Background
Uhlenbroek was born in London, but her parents moved to Ghana when she was only ten days old.
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Charlotte Uhlenbroek
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Education
Uhlenbroek attended Oakham School in Rutland, and then gained a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Psychology in 1988, followed in 1997 by a Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology, at the University of Bristol.
Career
Between the ages of 5–14 she lived in Kathmandu, Nepal. She spent six months in Burundi helping primatologist Jane Goodall set up a conservation project for chimpanzees, followed by four years in the forests of Gombe, Tanzania, studying the communication of wild chimpanzees at Goodall"s main project base. Spotted by the British Broadcasting Corporation Natural History Unit, Uhlenbroek made her United Kingdom television debut in the series Dawn to Dusk, presented by Jonathan Scott, in an episode on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park.
She went on to present the British Broadcasting Corporation Two programme Chimpanzee Diary as part of the Animal Zone during 1998 and 1999.
Uhlenbroek subsequently presented a number of documentaries (both series and one-off programmes) for the British Broadcasting Corporation, including: Cousins (2000), Congo"s Secret Chimps (2001), Talking with Animals (2002), Jungle (2003), Secret Gorillas of Mondika (2005). In 2004, she was one of the subjects of the short documentary series The Way We Went Wild, about television"s natural history presenters.
Uhlenbroek visited the Mefou National Park in Cameroon in 2006 to provide narration for Animal Planet"s Going Ape television series, based on the charity Ape Action Africa. In 2007, she presented Safari School, a twenty-part British Broadcasting Corporation 2 "reality" series in which eight celebrities had to learn to become game rangers at the Shamwari Game Reserve.
In 2009 she was associate producer for and presented Among the Apes, a four-part series on Five, each part concerning a different primate species.
