Sacha Dench

Sacha Dench is an Australian biologist, conservationist and adventurer.[1] In 2016, she set a Guinness World Record as the first woman crossing the English Channel by paramotor.[2] She is the recipient of the Britannia Trophy and winner of the Green Swan Award.[3] On 20 September 2021 it was reported that she had been injured in a crash in the Highlands of Scotland.[4]

Career

In 2016, Dench flew 7000 kilometers across 11 countries in a paramotor for the purpose of tracking the migrating Bewick's swan from the Russian Arctic to the UK. During this time, she was working as a biologist for Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.[5]

She is the co-founder and CEO of Conservation Without Borders and, in 2020,[6] became a UN Ambassador for Migratory Species.[5][7]

In October 2018 she gave a TED talk entitled "The Human Swan" about finding your own passion.[8] In February 2020 she gave a similar talk with the Scientific Exploration Society.[9]

Her career as a biologist focused many on marine turtles and she won the Australian free diving championship while diving for her work.[10]

In June 2021, it was announced that Dench would be making a 3,000 mile journey using a battery-powered adapted paramotor to mark the COP26 UN climate conference.[11] The journey was to start in near Glasgow on Monday 21st of June and take approximately six weeks to conclude.[12]

July saw Dench flying above Cumbria before heading towards the coast of Wales having received the support, amongst others, of actress Joanna Lumley.

References
  1. Odell, Michael. "Sacha Dench: the woman who flies with swans". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  2. ""Human Swan" Sacha Dench sets record crossing the English Channel". Guinness World Records. 2020-10-10. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. "Sacha Dench in Round Britain Guinness World Record Climate Challenge by electric paramotor". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2020-12-02..
  4. "Conservationist injured and cameraman killed in air crash". BBC News. 20 September 2021.
  5. Turns, Anna (2020-07-03). "'Human swan' to take flight on new mission to follow migrating ospreys". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  6. Nick (2020-02-24). "WEM19 Speaker Sacha Dench Appointed as UN Ambassador for Migratory Species". worldextrememedicine.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  7. "Sacha Dench Appointed as CMS Ambassador at COP13 | Raptors". www.cms.int. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  8. Dench, Sacha, The human swan, retrieved 2020-12-02
  9. "SES Explorer Talk: Sacha Dench - The Human Swan". Eventbrite. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  10. "Flying with swans: Conservationist Sacha Dench". RNZ. 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  11. Media, P. A. (2021-06-18). "'Human swan' to make 3,000-mile UK flight to raise climate awareness". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  12. Howie, Michael (2021-06-18). "'Human swan' set to fly around mainland Britain". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-23.


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