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Save The Rhino
Save the Rhino International (SRI), a United Kingdom, UK-based Wildlife conservation, conservation charity, is Europe's largest single-species Rhinoceros, rhino charity, in terms of funds raised and grants made, and in terms of profile and positioning. It began fundraising for in situ rhino conservation projects in 1992 and was formally registered as a Charitable organization, charity (number 1035072) in 1994. One of SRI's founder patrons was the British writer and humorist Douglas Adams, who also was known to be a conservation movement enthusiast. Mission, aims and objectives Save the Rhino International works to conserve Genetic viability, viable populations of Critically endangered Rhinoceros, rhinos in Africa and Asia. They recognise that the future of wildlife is inextricably linked to the communities that share its habitat. By funding field projects and through education, the goal of Save the Rhino is to deliver material, long-lasting and widespread benefits to rhinos and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Chance To See
''Last Chance to See'' is a 1989 BBC radio documentary series and its accompanying book, written and presented by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. In the series, Adams and Carwardine travel to various locations in the hope of encountering species on the brink of extinction. The book was published in 1990. In 2009, the BBC broadcast a television follow-up series of the same name, with Stephen Fry replacing the late Adams. In 1985, Douglas Adams went to Madagascar in search of the (possibly extinct) lemur the aye-aye. The trip was part of a project by the World Wide Fund for Nature and British Sunday newspaper ''The Observer'', sending well-known authors to remote places to seek endangered species and write articles for ''The Observer Magazine'', to help raise awareness of ecological issues. Adams was met in Madagascar by zoologist Mark Carwardine (who was working for the WWF at the time). The ''Observer'' project was successful, and Adams and Carwardine developed a radio se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Whitehall
Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall (born 7 July 1988) is an English comedian, actor, presenter and writer. He is known for starring as JP in the series ''Fresh Meat (TV series), Fresh Meat'' (2011–2016) and Alfie Wickers in the series ''Bad Education (TV series), Bad Education'' (2012–2014, 2022–present) and its spin-off film ''The Bad Education Movie'' (2015). He also co-wrote the latter two. From 2012 to 2018, Whitehall was a regular panellist on the game show ''A League of Their Own (British game show), A League of Their Own''. In 2017, he appeared with Michael Whitehall, his father in the Netflix comedy documentary series ''Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father'' and starred in the television series ''Decline and Fall (TV series), Decline and Fall''. From 2018 to 2021, he hosted the BRIT Awards. Early life Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall was born at Portland Hospital in London's West End of London, West End on 7 July 1988, the son of actress Hilary Amanda Jane Whitehall (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Todd-Jones
William Todd-Jones (born 1958) is a Welsh puppeteer, puppet designer, performer, director, movement consultant and writer for film, television and theatre in the UK and abroad. As an environmentalist, Todd-Jones is a longstanding patron of the wildlife charity Save The Rhino International, and has been involved with many other conservation projects. Early life Todd-Jones grew up in the village of Nantyglo in Wales. He attended Hafod y Ddol grammar school and Nantyglo Comprehensive School. He studied dance and acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. He then left for America to, as he put it, "Escape Thatcher, write poetry, seek opportunity and discover myself." Career Now residing in Chagford, he has performed creatures and puppets in numerous feature films, including ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', Jim Henson's ''Labyrinth'', the various Muppet movies, ''The Neverending Story'', ''Judge Dredd'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova ( cs, Martina Navrátilová ; ; born October 18, 1956) is a Czech–American, former professional tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 major singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles, the most in the Open Era. Alongside Chris Evert, her greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Navratilova was ranked as the world No. 1 in singles for a total of 332 weeks (second only to Steffi Graf), and for a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both disciplines for over 200 weeks. She won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles, both the Open Era records. She won a record six consecutive singles majors across 1983 and 1984 while simultaneously winning the Grand Slam in doubles. Navratilova claims the best professional season w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Nardelli
Francesco Romano Nardelli (born 5 September 1953 in Rome, Italy, where he currently lives) is an Italian naturalist who has dedicated his life to the protection and conservation of endangered species. He is also the co-founder, with John Aspinall, of the Sumatran Rhino Project, one of the most important coordinated efforts to save a critically endangered species. Career Early career In 1972 Nardelli established the private Wild Felids Breeding Centre near Rome where he successfully bred in captivity several threatened species including the red-shanked douc langur ''Pygathrix nemaeus'', the snow leopard ''Uncia uncia'', and the clouded leopard ''Neofelis nebulosa'', all the first ever bred in Italy. In 1980 he moved to England where he became Curator of Howletts and Port Lympne Zoo, John Aspinall’s Zoos in Kent. There he was curator of several breeding programmes including the African elephant ''Loxodonta africana'', (first ever bred in UK), western lowland gorilla ''Goril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Coreth
Mark Coreth (born 1958) is a British artist. Biography Mark Coreth was born in London in 1958 and was immediately dispatched to the family farm in the Kenyan highlands where the Equator ran through the house. Black and white colobus monkeys leapt amongst the branches in the trees behind the house where leopard and cheetah also lived. This idyllic childhood fostered Mark's early and continuing passion for wildlife. After prep school in Kenya, Mark attended Ampleforth and on leaving joined The Blues and Royals, serving with the Regiment as a regular officer. He has spent time in England, Cyprus, Germany, Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands during the 1982 hostilities. On his return to England he was commissioned to make a silver sculpture of his regiment's drum horse "Belisarius", for the Warrant Officer's Mess and later a second cast in bronze became the Household Cavalry's wedding present to The Duke and Duchess of York; his first commission, a taste of many more to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine ( IPA: /kɑːwɑːdiːn/; born 9 March 1959) is a British zoologist who achieved widespread recognition with his 20-year conservation project – ''Last Chance to See'' – which involved round-the-world expeditions with Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry. The first series was aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1990, and the second, a TV series, on BBC2 in 2009. There are two books about the project: ''Last Chance to See'', which he co-wrote with Adams (1990), and ''Last Chance to See: In the footsteps of Douglas Adams'' (2009). He is a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer. Writing Carwardine has written more than fifty books. Most recently he has written the ground-breaking ''Handbook of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises'' (Bloomsbury 2019) and wildlife photography eBooks (2020). In 2009, he wrote ''Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams'' (HarperCollins). This is a sequel to the best-selling book, ''Last Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Barnes
Simon Barnes is an English journalist. He was Chief Sports Writer of ''The Times'' until 2014, and wrote a wildlife opinion column in the Saturday edition of the same newspaper. He has written three novels. The son of Edward Barnes, a co-creator of the BBC children's TV programme Blue Peter, Barnes was educated at Emanuel School, and studied English literature at the University of Bristol, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007. After beginning his journalism career on local newspapers in Britain, he travelled to Hong Kong, where he wrote for travel magazines and, briefly, the '' South China Morning Post''. After his return to Britain, he became a sports writer for ''The Times'', being promoted in time to the position of Chief Sports Writer. He is the author of 16 books including three novels. His latest book, ''Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong'', was published in 2011. Barnes has appeared in a number of programmes on BBC Radio 2, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Baker (naturalist)
Nicholas Rowan BakerAncestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. (born 22 April 1972) is an English naturalist and television presenter, notably on Children's BBC's ''The Really Wild Show''. Early life Baker graduated from the University of Exeter in 1993 with a degree in biological sciences, but was a keen naturalist from an early age. He co-founded Exeter University's Bug Club and was a member of the Royal Entomological Society's Youth Development Committee. As a field naturalist, he has researched the high brown fritillary butterfly on Dartmoor and worked with badgers, also in Devon. Career BBC In ''Nick Baker's Under the Skin'' on BBC Two, Baker attempted to get under the skin of animals such as grizzly bears, penguins, rattlesnakes and rhinos - examining their hab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Anderson
Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer, and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career, before starring in ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' on BBC Radio 4, then later Channel 4. He has also hosted many radio programmes, and made guest appearances on '' Have I Got News for You'', ''Mock the Week'' and '' QI''. Early life Anderson's mother was English and his parents met while serving in the RAF. He was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys then a grammar school which closed in 1975. His group of contemporaries included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo. His Scottish father originally from Glasgow was promoted to manager of the Bradford & Bingley's Building Society, Wembley branch. Anderson attended Selwyn College, Cambridge, where, from 1974 to 1975, he was Presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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