Armchair Travel with Naturetrek: Recent Episodes
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The lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic makes it extremely difficult to sate one's appetite for wildlife, but our new podcast series aims to do just that – by bringing the wildlife to your living room (or wherever else you might be listening!).
Tour Leader Byron Palacios has been leading Naturetrek tours for over 15 years, and in this podcast, we talk conservation on the Iberian peninsula, as Byron tells us about the thrill of searching for Iberian Wolves and Lynx in Spain.
Tour Leader and ex-Naturetrek Tailormade Manager Robin Smith talks to Naturetrek's General Manager Andy Tucker, about birdwatching in Colombia and life in Colombian lockdown.
Tour Leader Dr Tim Melling reveals some of the key conservation projects he worked on during his career, including grouse shooting, wind farms, preventing destructive developments and protecting Twite and Ring Ouzel in the Peak District.
With fewer than a thousand birds remaining in the wild, the Northern Bald Ibis is a bird on the edge of extinction, but with a successful reintroduction programme underway in Andalucía and intensive conservation work in Morocco, there is hope for this species yet…
What is it like to live in the epicentre of bird migration? Tour Leader and ornithologist Simon Tonkin talks about the joys of living near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Tour Leader, and author of the book 'Urban Peregrines' Ed Drewitt gives an exclusive insight into the lives, and conservation of, the world's fastest bird.