Last Chance to See
The book Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine was first published in 1990, after a BBC radio series.
The Observer Colour Magazine started the idea in 1985 to send a zoologist, Mark Carwardine, and a writer, Douglas Adams, to Madagascar, to watch for the aye-aye, a nearly extinct lemur. Later this developed into several journeys to find various species, including the Komodo dragon lizard on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, Gorillas and white rhinoceroses in Zaire, Kakapos in New Zealand, the Yangtze river dolphin in China, Rodrigues fruitbats on the island Rodrigues, plus some other species in these locations.
The progress of all the animals are brought up-to-date at .
References
- Adams, D., Carwardine, M., Last Chance to See, ISBN 0-330-32002-5 Pan Books, London, 1991
- Gaiman, N., Don't Panic - Douglas Adams & the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ISBN 1-840-23742-2 Titan Books, London, 1993
