The Fragile Arctic
Simon Parker
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional Travel Writer, Newspaper Columnist and Author
- Fee:
- Paid: £250 + travel
- Category:
- Science
- Updated:
- 10th December 2021
- Tagged:
- Arctic Expedition | Travel | Journalism | Broadcasting
My Fragile Arctic talk is a multimedia presentation of slides, short films and radio clips from my time reporting in Svalbard, Greenland, Arctic Finland and Sweden, for The Telegraph, the BBC and my Amazon Prime TV show Earth Cycle.
I discuss:
Invasive king crab and global warming The threat to reindeer herds and the Sami communities that depend on them Siberian wildfires and Arctic amplification Svalbard landslides and links with rising temperatures The fragile existence of the Nordic brown bee
I illustrate all of my points with my first-hand reporting in the region. These reports have featured on all the big Radio 4 programmes.
Views: 661 | Enquiries: 1About Simon Parker
I’m a British travel writer, broadcast journalist and public speaker working across a wide range of themes and subjects. If it involves travel, intriguing people and an untold story, then I’m interested.
I’ve reported on product shortages in Venezuela, the ‘migrant crisis’ in Greece, social inequality in the barrios of Northern Colombia and climate change in the high Andes and Svalbard.
I’ve paraglided solo through the Andes, hiked up Bali’s highest volcanoes and driven a rickshaw the length of India.
I’ve reported from over 100 countries in the past decade – from Bhutan and French Polynesia to Patagonia and Namibia.
Between March 20th and July 30th 2016 I embarked on my toughest story yet – to sail and cycle from China to London in 133 days.
www.simonwparker.co.uk
@Simonwparker.co.uk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/s/sf-sj/simon-parker/
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