Mark's hugely entertaining lectures feature a variety of wildlife and conservation subjects together with his own travels. Go to 'news & lectures' for forthcoming lectures. Here, meanwhile, are some samples of his talks:-

Travels and Tribulations of a Zoologist

Zoologist Mark Carwardine has spent the past 25 years travelling the world in search of wildlife and exploring wild places - presenting radio and TV programmes, writing books and articles, taking photographs, advising on conservation projects and working on the conservation front line. He’s been attacked by a tiger shark in The Bahamas, worked with Inuit walrus hunters in the high Arctic, photographed blue whales from the open door of a small plane in Mexico, rubbed shoulders with wild mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and tracked jaguars in Brazil. He encounters more wildlife in an average year than most people dream of encountering in a lifetime. He’s dodged landmines with anti-poaching patrols in Cambodia, been shot at by drunken policemen in Zambia, mugged by a gang of drug addicts in New York, attacked by dolphin hunters in Peru, ambushed by bandits in Tanzania, lost in the desert in Mali, and was thrown into jail in Moscow. In this highly entertaining and thought-provoking lecture, Mark talks about some of his adventures and experiences with wild animals - and even wilder people - in all four corners of the globe. And, inevitably, he has a thing or two to say about the state of the world along the way.

Last Chance to See

A highly entertaining and enlightening behind-the-scenes talk about the popular six-part BBC television series Last Chance to See, which Mark co-presented with Stephen Fry. The series followed the unlikely duo on six separate journeys - retracing the footsteps of a similar journey Mark made with the late Douglas Adams 20 years before - that took them from the steamy jungles of the Amazon to the ice-covered mountaintops of New Zealand and from the edge of a war zone in Central Africa to a sub-tropical paradise in the North Pacific. Along the way, they searched for some of the weirdest, most remarkable and most troubled creatures on earth: a large, black, sleepy animal easily mistaken for an unusually listless mudbank, a parrot with a song like an unreleased collection of Pink Floyd studio outtakes, a rhino with square lips, a dragon with deadly saliva, an animal roughly the length of a Boeing 737 and the creature most likely to emerge from the cargo doors of a spaceship. This lecture describes their hilarious, entertaining, informative and thought-provoking story and offers a unique insight into the disappearing world around us.

‘Mark Carwardine will climb mountains, ford streams and penetrate steamy malaria-infested swamps just for one glimpse of an animal. Not only that, but he will encourage, belabour and enthuse any large, sweaty, unwilling companions who happen to be lumbering at his side wishing there were better phone signals and air conditioning available.’ Fellow explorer, Stephen Fry

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