Sacha Dench will gallant arctic Russian temperatures to trace the migration route of Bewick’s swans to find out why their population has halved in 20 years A British conservationist is taking to the skies next year for a daring and uncomfortable 4500-mile journey across the Russian Arctic to help save the UK’s smallest and shyest swan.
Sacha Dench plans to employ a paramotor – a kind of parachute propelled by a motor – to gallant temperatures of -9C (15.8F) as she mirrors the Bewick’s swan’s yearly migration route. The swans migrate as the northern Russian winter turns inhospitable and birds travel west to Britain and other milder climes.
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Source: theguardian.com