Mark Carwardine

Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, consultant, award-winner writer, BBC Radio 4 presenter and photographer with a special interest in marine wildlife. He 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.

He has written more than 40 books on a variety of travel, wildlife and conservation subjects. These include the best-selling "Last Chance to See" (with Douglas Adams); "Wildlife in the News" (with John Craven); a series of books on conservation and development issues in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and and several other countries; the best-selling field guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises ever published; The Book of Dolphins; Birds in Focus; The Guinness Book of Animal Records; The Shark Watcher's Handbook; and, most recently, Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whale Watching. His books have been published in more than 20 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. He also writes a regular monthly column for BBC Wildlife magazine and articles for The Mail on Sunday, Wanderlust and a variety of other newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad and for twenty years was Advisory Editor of the Natural World section of The Good Book Guide.

Mark presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4 for six years and regularly 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 other radio and television programmes about wildlife and conservation. He lectures widely on his own travels and on a variety of wildlife and conservation subjects.

With an edited collection of more than 110,000 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 nearly twenty years and is best known for his whale and dolphin pictures. Mark spends more than half the year travelling around the world in search of wildlife and exploring wild places and is continually adding to his image collection.

Mark Carwardine will be speaking about "Wildlife Travel" on the evening of the 3rd April and will be running specialist "Photography Safaris" throughout the Festival of Wildlife

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