Mark Carwardine

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Mark Carwardine (born 1959-03-09) is a zoologist, who at one time was affiliated with the World Wildlife Fund, and has been a free lance writer, photographer and zoologist since 1986. He is also the co-author of the book Last Chance to See with Douglas Adams. On 2005-03-10 he delivered the third annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, speaking about Last Chance to See and offering updates on some of the species covered in the book.

For six years, he presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4. He now writes a regular column for Wanderlust and BBC Wildlife magazines and is on the latters advisory board.

[edit] Bibliography

• Iceland: Nature's Meeting Place Iceland Review (1986) ISBN 0-948192-02-X
• The WWF Environment Handbook
• The Nature of Pakistan: a guide to conservation and development issues IUCN (1986) ISBN 2-88032-404-1
• The Nature of Zambia: a guide to conservation and development issues IUCN (1988) ISBN 2-88032-403-3
• The Nature of Zimbabwe: a guide to conservation and development issues IUCN (1988) ISBN 2-88032-933-7
• The Encyclopedia of World Wildlife Octopus (1986) ISBN 0-7064-2437-9
• Wildlife in the News (with John Craven)
• Birds in Focus Salamander, (1990) ISBN 0-86101-544-4
• On the Trail of the Whale Thunder Bay Publishing Co., 1994 ISBN 1-899074-00-7
• Day-time and Night-time Animals (1988) ISBN 1-85210-297-7
• Last Chance to See (with Douglas Adams) Pan Books (1991) ISBN 0-330-32002-5
• The Shark Watcher's Handbook: A Guide to Sharks and Where to See Them (with Ken Watterson) BBC Books, ISBN 0-563-53794-9
• The Guinness Book of Animal Records Guinness Publishing (1995) ISBN 0-85112-658-8
• Shark BBC Books (2004) ISBN 0-563-48723-2
• Killer Whales BBC Books (2001) ISBN 0-563-53407-9
• Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whalewatching: Britain and Europe, New Holland Publishers (2003) ISBN 1-84330-059-1

[edit] Children's books

• Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (illustrated by Martin Camm) published by Dorling Kindersley, part of the Smithsonian Handbooks series, ISBN 0-7894-8990-2
• The Animal Atlas
• Animal Opposites (series)
• Where Animals Live
• Looking At How Animals Live (series)
• Explore The World Of Amazing Animals
• Finding Out About Animals (series)

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Radio 4 Nature "listen again" to episodes, circa 2003, presented by Carwardine, in Real Audio format.
• Radio 4 'Tough Lives' "listen again" to a series presented by Carwardine, in Real Audio format.