Carwardine to become vice president for Avon WT
Thursday 17th June 2010
Award-winning writer and TV presenter Mark Carwardine has agreed to become a vice president of Avon Wildlife Trust.
Mark co-presented the six-part BBC Two television series Last Chance to See, with Stephen Fry, in which the unlikely duo travelled the world in search of endangered species, following in the footsteps of a similar journey Mark made with Douglas Adams 20 years before. Mark gave a sell-out fundraising talk on the series for Avon Wildlife Trust early this year, where he spoke in his introduction of his commitment to local wildlife.
On accepting the Trust's invitation Mark said:
"I am truly delighted to become a vice president of Avon Wildlife Trust. Though I spend much of my time travelling and working on wildlife conservation issues in other countries, I care passionately about nature in my home area. Avon Wildlife Trust is a key player in safeguarding the integrity of natural areas in the region, and I intend to support it in every way I can."
Mark has just come back from photographing critically endangered Sumatran rhinos and is about to go to Kenya and Swaziland to film 'Last Chance to See: Rhino Rescue', a one-off programme with Stephen Fry about northern white rhinos.
Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, an active and outspoken conservationist, an award-winning writer, a TV and radio presenter, a widely published wildlife photographer, a magazine columnist and a conservation consultant. He has written more than 50 books (including several bestsellers) and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, and has been writing a provocative monthly column in BBC Wildlife magazine since January 2004. Mark has been Chairman of the Judging Panel of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, jointly owned by BBC Wildlife magazine and the Natural History Museum, since 2005. His own extensive collection of wildlife and conservation photographs, taken in more than 100 countries, is sold through picture agencies around the world.
Avon Wildlife Trust is a Bristol-based charity dedicated to inspiring people of all ages about wildlife, acting as a wildlife champion, creating wildlife havens and encouraging sustainable living in Bath, Bristol and the surrounding areas. With 17,000 local supporters and 35 nature reserves, it is the area’s largest membership-based organisation.
Story by Avon Wildlife Trust