“Roadkill Stew” as austerity measures hit the project

“Better than horsemeat no doubt, and with a distinctive gamey flavour – but not half dry and tendonous!” That’s is our culinary assessment of Darwin’s Nothura, a grouse-like species of fowl, native to Argentina. We don’t tend to eat the subjects of our Megatransect wildlife surveys! But today as we ran the long asphalt road …

Saving macaws, anteaters and the other weird and wonderful wildlife of South America!

Help us protect some of the last remaining wildlands in Bolivia, home to macaws, jaguars and anteaters.. During the coming months of the expedition, we’ll be running 20 miles per day in a bid to secure over 5000 GBP for BirdLife International and their partner Armonía, who are working to protect critically endangered species and habitats. We have …

Winners of the Christmas Charity Draw Wildlife Paintings

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who entered our Christmas Charity Draw. We sold 98 tickets, raising a grand total of US$708, or GBP 442.50. This is now winging its way to Conservacion Patagonica our fantastic charity who are restoring extremely threatened wildlands and wildlife in southern Chile. The two lucky winners are: Gill Reid …

Re-wilding of Valle Chacabuco

In just one morning, whilst heading out with Luigi to place a puma camera we recorded all these wonderful species  in Valle Chacabuco, Chile. Until 2004, the 78,000 ha estancia was being grazed to destruction by thousands of cattle and sheep. Conservacion Patagonica, our charity, is now restoring the area and native wildlife and plants …

So we thought we had it bad….!

We have just arrived into Valle Chacabuco, the area of  Patagonia we are raising money for, through our charity Conservacion Patagonica. Our first glimpse of this astounding mountainous landscape tells us just how much help folk here trying to restore this place are going to need – this is phenomenal! We were collected by pick-up off our route 11km …

David Lowrie: Accenture Alumni Interview

Transcript from a recent interview with my former company about how a wayward management consultant came to be running 35km a day, living in a tent, trying to raise money, awareness and inspire environmental action for South Americas wild places . . . Over the coming year, we will look to profile Accenture UK alumni who have …

Depression and Woes Under the Moon

Two sore ankles, two sore knees, one sore hip, the other ones are just sore at night, one sore back, tingling Achilles and fingers, two sore heads. What kind of animal does that make us? Hmm. Arrived into Cochrane yesterday afternoon. Found a campsite. Tapped until the cockerels decided to chat (school presentation imminent). They …