Mark Carwardine
Mark worked for several international conservation
organisations (the World Wide Fund for Nature, in England;
the United Nations Environment Programme, in Kenya; and the
World Conservation Union, in Switzerland) before going
freelance in 1986.
Mark has written more than 40 books on a variety of travel,
wildlife and conservation subjects - including the
best-selling Last Chance to See with Douglas Adams and the
most popular field guide to whales, dolphins and porpoises
ever published. A selection of his books, which have been
published in more than 20 languages and have sold millions
of copies worldwide, can be seen here. His brand new, up-to-date field guide -- Whales and
Dolphins, a Collins Wild Guide (HarperCollins) -- is
available now. He also writes monthly columns in two magazines - BBC
Wildlife and Wanderlust - and, until recently, wrote the
back-page column in Diver magazine. He writes regular travel
features for newspapers such as The Mail on Sunday and The
Sunday Times and for 20 years was Advisory Editor of The
Good Book Guide.
With an extensive collection of photographs taken in more
than 100 countries around the world, Mark is an accomplished
and well-published photographer. He has been photographing
wildlife and wild places for more than 20 years and,
although he is best known for his whale and dolphin images,
his work covers everything from great white sharks and
gaboon vipers to magnificent frigatebirds and Komodo
dragons. He spends more than half the year traveling the
world in search of wildlife and exploring wild places and is
continually adding to his image collection. Mark will be once again Chairman of the Judging Panel for
the 2006 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition - the
world's biggest and most prestigious competition of its kind. He has recently been taking publicity pictures of David
Attenborough for his recent BBC TV series, Life in the
Undergrowth, and is about to embark on a world tour to
photograph endangered mammal projects in no fewer than 13
different countries for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.
Mark presented the weekly half-hour programme 'Nature' on
BBC Radio 4 for six years and occasionally presents other
mini-series for BBC Radio. He also provided the daily
Environment News bulletin for 'Steve Wright in the
Afternoon' on BBC Radio 1 and is a frequent contributor to
many other radio and television programmes about wildlife
and conservation.
Mark lectures widely on his own travels and on a variety of
wildlife and conservation subjects and runs one-day
workshops and seminars on writing and photography (please
see the events page for further information). Mark was a founding director of the wildlife travel
companies Discover the World, WildOceans and Ocean
Wanderers, and now runs occasional whale-watching,
shark-diving and specialist wildlife photography tours on an
ad hoc basis. Mark is a Senior Consultant to the Whale and Dolphin
Conservation Society and Conservation Adviser to the David
Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, and he advises other
international conservation bodies on a variety of
conservation and development issues. In a voluntary
capacity, he actively supports a number of charities (see
the links page) and spends a lot of time raising funds and
awareness for wildlife conservation.
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Books:Last Chance to See, October 1992
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