# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-carwardine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:26.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-carwardine"
name: "Mark Carwardine"
slug: "mark-carwardine"
description: "Mark Carwardine is a British conservationist, photographer and author. He is best known for his work on Last Chance to See – which involved two round-the-world expeditions with Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry to see endangered animals. The first series was aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1990, and the second, a TV series, on BBC2 in 2009. There are two books about the project: Last Chance to See, which he co-wrote with Adams (1990), and Last Chance to See: In the footsteps of Douglas Adams (2009). He is a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer."
tagline: "British zoologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Carwardine_in_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.230528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mark Carwardine"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carwardine"
    title: "Mark Carwardine"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carwardine"
    title: "Mark Carwardine"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carwardine"
    title: "Mark Carwardine"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E6%B2%83%E6%B1%80"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump