Here Be Dragons….
Anna-Louise Pickering
- Organisation:
- The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Charity
- Fee:
- Paid: Donation to the Pollyana Pickering Foundation to be agreed
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 7th April 2024
- Tagged:
- Travel | World Wildlife | Adventure Travel | Komodo Dragon
On this expedition Anna-Louise came face to face with one of the most potentially dangerous creatures she has ever studied – armed only with a stick.
Join her as she travels alongside Pollyanna by river boat deep into the rainforests in the southern tip of Borneo, on a pilgrimage to Camp Leakey. Here they trekked into the forests to visit the rehabilitation centres where many of the orang-utans who have been released back in to the wild visit feeding platforms. There is nowhere else in the world you can see so many wild orang-utans in their natural home – and Pollyanna made the most of this opportunity to fill her sketch folders.
Whilst in Indonesia they also visited Komodo, home to the legendary komodo dragons, trekking in the National Park, in temperatures which reached 43ºC in order to come face to face with the world’s largest and most dangerous lizards in their natural habitat
This humorous and beautifully illustrated account of her travels brings vividly to life one of the remotest and least visited wilderness areas remaining on earth – and shows the inspiration behind Pollyanna’s remarkable paintings.
Views: 200 | Enquiries: 0About Anna-Louise Pickering
Anna-Louise Pickering is a writer and photographer and Conservationist. For over 25 years she worked alongside her late mother the wildlife artist Pollyanna Pickering. Pollyanna was passionate about only painting animals she had seen and sketched in their natural habitats, a quest which lead to her painting on all seven continents.
Anna-Louise accompanied her on every journey – she has canoed through crocodile infested rivers, travelled by dog sled in the High Arctic, camping on the ice at temperatures of -40, and been charged by a wild tiger in search of her subjects.
She is now pleased to present a series of light hearted, highly acclaimed talks about her life and work with Pollyanna, their expeditions to find endangered species in some of the most remote areas of the globe and their close contact with wildlife which inspired Pollyanna’s enchanting artwork.
All talks raise funds for Pollyanna’s charitable Foundation which supports international conservation and wildlife rescue. All the talks are illustrated.
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