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03 February 2007
CARIBBEAN WILD LIFE – UGANDA – TRACKING
John McCarthy is joined by Karen Bass, a producer at the BBC’s Natural History Unit who has trotted the globe filming some of its most remarkable animals on land and in the sea; Philip Briggs author of the latest, Bradt guide to Uganda, a country which attracts most of its tourists with the huge array of fauna it offers and Ian Maxwell a tracker of animals and even people in countries all around the world including here in Britain.
Presented by John McCarthy
Photo: Scarlet Ibis
This week's guests:
Karen Bass is the series producer of BBC 2 Wild Caribbean currently broadcast on Tuesdays and also the co-author of its accompanying book. Fifteen years ago Karen became David Attenborough’s researcher at the Natural History unit. She has produced several award winning films including Pygmy Chimp – The Last Great Ape, the first film to be made about the rare bonobos of the Congo.
Karen has filmed and travelled all over the world including Uganda last year. She talks about her career and latest project and shares the difficulties and joys she experienced when filming the wildlife of the Caribbean, the hot bat caves of Cuba, the swamps of Mosquito Coast, the deserts of Bonaire, the sulphur springs and volcanoes of St Lucia and Dominica as well as the rainforests of Central America.
Wild Caribbean
BBC Two – Tuesdays 9pm
Wild Caribbean: The Hidden Wonders of the World's Most Famous Islands
Publisher: BBC Books
ISBN-10: 0563493836
ISBN-13: 978-0563493839
Wild Caribbean (DVD)
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
ASIN: B000LRYTDQ
Philip Briggs is a travel writer and tour leader specialising in eastern and southern Africa, including many off-the-beaten-track areas. Philip has been travelling in East Africa since 1986 when he went backpacking in Uganda and has been back regularly since. Tourism is an important part of the economy and Uganda’s main tourist attraction is its wildlife.
Uganda (The Bradt Travel Guide)
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN-10: 1841620726
ISBN-13: 978-1841620725
Ian Maxwell was born and grew up in Zambia. He is one of the world’s leading trackers and instructs police forces and governments around the world. In his childhood Ian tracked animals like dogs and chickens and learnt the ways of the tracker. Later he spent time round ‘a thousand campfires’ with guides and trackers. He used his skills in earnest during the Rhino wars between Zambia and Zimbabwe in the eighties.
Recently Ian followed the tracks of the very rare Iberian lynx in Spain as wells as those of big casts in Africa and Brazil. Although not convinced about its existence Ian has been searching for the beast of Bodmin Moor.
Animal Tracks ID & techniques
Ian ‘Max’ Maxwell
Publisher: Flame Lilly Press
ISBN-10: 0955434807
Shadowhawk Tracker School was established by tracker Ian "Max" Maxwell in response to the demand for professional training and provision of trackers.The BBC cannot be held responsible for
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