Flight of the Swans - Fully Booked
Please note that this event is now fully booked.
Join adventurer and passionate conservationist, Sacha Dench, for an inspiring evening talk within the Heligan Kitchen hosted by Sir Tim Smit.
Sacha, known as the ‘Human Swan’ para-motored over arctic tundra from Russia to the UK, following the Bewick swans along their migrational flight path, crossing 11 countries to discover why their numbers were in decline and having remarkable encounters with people along the way.
This story is one of astonishing bravery and marvellous adventure. It is a story of hope for our planet that will touch even hardened hearts.
Sacha is a conservationist, biologist, environmental artist, storyteller, ex freediving champion, Britannia Trophy award winner, Guinness world record holder and UN ambassador to the Convention on migratory birds.
She is the founder and CEO of ‘Conservation Without Borders’ with supporters Sir David Attenborough and patrons Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dame Judi Dench.
Hosted by Sir Tim Smit at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Sacha will share her stories from her incredible expeditions, showing clips from her film with a Q&A and an invitation for participants to become patrons/supporters of CWB.
Our evening will begin at 6pm with tickets costing £15 including a welcome drink and canapes.
Who is Sacha Dench?
Sacha is a passionate conservationist and UN Ambassador of Migratory Species. She has devised innovative methods to raise awareness of the threats and potential solutions to migratory species and the global climate crisis.
In 2017, she became known as the ‘Human Swan’ after her epic 7,000km flight in a paramotor from the Arctic to the UK, to tackle the decline in Bewick's Swans. The project won Environmental Campaign of the Year, Sacha achieved the Guinness World Record for crossing the Channel in a paramotor and became the first woman in 50 years to win the Britannia Trophy for an outstanding feat of aviation. The Flight of the Swan documentary has recently been awarded best environmental film at Toronto International women Film Festival.
