Jobs in adventure: Naturalist
From being sick with sharks to goggling gorillas – it’s all in a day’s work for a naturalist….
Best adventure holidays for solo female travellers
Eco-adventurer Cat Capon suggests the best places for solo female travellers who are looking for adventure. Cat has already visited 60 countries …
5 Things you need to know about coral reefs and why they need saving
AS A NATURALIST AND ADVENTURER I’ve become an avid SCUBA diver over the past 10 years. Of all the underwater biomes to explore…
The World’s Growing Eco Tribe: Catherine Capon’s Wildlife Adventures
As you have probably guessed by now, we’re pretty big fans of nature and being able to enjoy all the glorious things that Mother Earth…
A wildlife road trip on Mexico’s Baja California Sur
From stroking grey whales to snorkelling with sea lions, there are plenty of wild adventures on this Mexican peninsula…
Girls on top
…basically means that I spend my time promoting ecotourism and wildlife watching holidays as a way to make endangered animals worth more alive than dead.
Only men can be adventurers
‘but you don’t look like an adventurer’ was the response I received from a potential sponsor…
Conservation vacations: protecting endangered animals
‘Ecotourism’ isn’t a particularly sexy term – shabby huts, cold showers and middle-aged couples in sandals is what normally springs to mind. However……
Six Animals With Bad Reputations
Man-eating sharks, venomous giant lizards and snakes that can swallow a human whole; these don’t sound like the type of animals you want to be on the same continent with, let alone getting within a few metres of. However…
Riddle me this… Catherine Capon
If I knew before embarking on my ecotourism project that I would vomit in front of a boat full of South African men, get multiple leech bites in Malaysia, break my leg, suffer severe dehydration…
Interview with Cat Capon – Eco-Adventurer
Who are you, what do you do and what did you have for breakfast?…
Extreme Sports Will Be The Killer App For Live Streaming
With a DSLR, a wetsuit, her oxygen tank and an iPhone, Catherine Capon and a photographer cruised by boat around the majestic Caribbean island of Guadalupe. An environmental activist who travels the world writing and sharing footage …
What Scares the World’s Most Fearless Instagrammers?
Explorers, extreme sports professionals and other career daredevils race down mountains, hang out with some of the world’s most dangerous animals and risk their lives daily, so you’d think they’d be pretty hard to scare. Surely…