- Jody Bourton
- 20 Dec 07, 03:06 PM
The thing about adventures is, you just never know what鈥檚 gonna happen next鈥 it is an adventure, after all! So the big plan was to head off into the Caribbean and get south to Venezuela for the Hurricane season? Well, we did head for the Caribbean on the 5th of April and the 11th saw us moored by Great Harbour Cay, in the Berry Islands of the Bahamas. So far so good!
At 0530 am that morning the plan got fried. It was truly a wild and a windy night. Fierce. Lying at anchor in poor holding, whilst the furies swept over us, I refused to think of what would happen if we dragged. With one engine not working, we had the limited power of the one remaining engine should our anchor fail and over 40 knots of wind was grabbing at the yacht. It wasn鈥檛 pretty.
Continue reading "Update from Andy Byatt and Family"
- Beatrice Fenton
- 11 Dec 07, 10:17 AM
We at the Natural History Unit Radio Team are working on a big series for next year at the moment. It鈥檚 called World on the Move and it will follow the movements of animals around the world as they migrate and disperse. It鈥檚 a major event for 大象传媒 Radio 4 going out live every Tuesday at 11am from February 2008 - December 2008.
(Photo taken by Viktor Nikiforov/WWF - Tom Arnbom is the one in red, the others are like a white wall so that the male polar bear would not see him)
World on the Move reporter Tom Arnbom is out in Vankarem, Chukotka, north-east Russia at the moment with WWF's Polar Bear Patrol project.
Last year due to the lack of sea ice, polar bears were "trapped" on the peninsula where Vankarem is situated, waiting for the winter ice to freeze so that they could go out hunting on the sea ice after many months of starvation on land. Vankarem has about 150-200 inhabitants, and they had about 200 polar bears running around trying to find something to eat. Not a good combination - a couple of years ago a teenage girl was killed by a bear. So WWF together with the locals set up a 鈥淏ear Patrol鈥.
Tom鈥檚 out there this year to see what鈥檚 going on. He鈥檚 sent a note and these amazing pictures back. Here's what he wrote to me...
Continue reading "World on the Move - a note from far away"
