Mark Carwardine

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Carwardine
Occupation	British conservationist
Date Of Birth	Mar 9, 1959(1959-03-09)
Age	65
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Pisces

Mark Carwardine Biography

Mark Carwardine is one of the most popular and richest British conservationist who was born on March 9, 1959 in United Kingdom.

In 1989 the BBC Radio 4 series Last Chance to See and the subsequent book (1990) described eight expeditions by Carwardine and writer Douglas Adams to find and report on some of the most endangered species around the world. These were the aye-aye in Madagascar, the Komodo dragon in Indonesia, the kakapo in New Zealand, the Amazonian manatee in Brazil, the Yangtze river dolphin in China, the Juan Fernández fur seal in Chile, the northern white rhino in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Rodrigues fruit bat in Mauritius.

In 2009, Carwardine and television presenter Stephen Fry visited Codfish Island in New Zealand as part of a series for the Last Chance to See, focusing on endangered species around the world. While they were filming a rare kakapo bird called Sirocco, the bird hopped onto Carwardine’s head and attempted to mate with him. The scene itself and Fry’s commentary, “Sorry, but this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. You are being shagged by a rare parrot”, proved an instant television hit, being featured on news items around the world.

Mark Carwardine Net Worth

Mark Carwardine is one of the richest British conservationist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Carwardine 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mark Carwardine (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.

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A video of the incident was uploaded to YouTube, where it received more than 700,000 views in the first week. As of July 2017 it has been viewed more than 7.3 million times.

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular British conservationist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mark Carwardine celebrates birthday on March 9 of every year.

Carwardine has written more than fifty books. Most recently he has written the ground-breaking Handbook of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Bloomsbury 2020) and an eBook, Digital Workflow for Wildlife Photographers. 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 Chance to See, which he wrote with the late Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). Other books that Carwardine has written include Mark Carwardine’s Guide to Whale Watching in North America (Bloomsbury, 2017), Mark Carwardine’s Guide to Whale Watching in Britain and Europe (Bloomsbury, 2016), the award-winning Shark Watcher’s Handbook and Eyewitness Handbooks: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, which is the best-selling cetacean field guide ever published (nearly a million copies in print). Carwardine also writes a monthly column in BBC Wildlife magazine, and has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines.