'Human swan' to fly 4,500-mile migration

A champion sportswoman and conservationist will fly 4,500 miles from the Russian Arctic to Britain next autumn, using just a parachute wing and strapped to a small propeller engine.

Sacha Dench, a conservationist and former free-diving champion, is trying the first ever attempt to follow Bewick's swans on their annual migration.

The expedition will uncover new science about the Bewick's swans, whose numbers have halved in the last 20 years, and attempt to unite people from different cultures (include reindeer herders and hunters) to try to reverse the decline.

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