{"id":5152,"date":"2016-10-04T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2016-10-04T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:24:23","slug":"paramotoring-russian-tundra-after-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/paramotoring-russian-tundra-after-swans\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramotoring over the Russian tundra following swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c<strong>Flight of the Swan<\/strong>\u201d expedition, led by conservationist Sacha Dench, aims to study and raise awareness about the threats over the Bewick swans, by flying on paramotors their entire migration route next to them: some <strong>7,000km<\/strong> from the arctic back to the UK. The team expects to spend about 10 weeks on this journey, that started by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the many amazing images that the team has been able to take during their flights, and it was taken by<strong> Dan Burton<\/strong>. So far, Sacha and her team have also spent some time talking with the local people on the way, and meeting with Russian scientists, students and media.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1995 the number of swans making the migration from arctic Russia to northern Europe has plummeted by nearly a half \u2013 from 29,000 to just 18,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-200x300.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5152]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5149 size-medium\" title=\"Flight of the Swan\" src=\"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sacha Dench - Flight of the Swan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/sacha-dench_flightoftheswan.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>By joining the Bewick\u2019s on their migration, Sacha and the expedition team will see for themselves just why swans are unable to survive the journey. They are working closely with the <strong>Wildfowl &amp; Wetlands Trust<\/strong> (WWT), a national wildfowl and wetland conservation charity in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>You can support this cause by signing the petition, donating or buying a t-shirt on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightoftheswans.org\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.flightoftheswans.org\/support\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>+Info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightoftheswans.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.flightoftheswans.org\/<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flightoftheswans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flightoftheswans\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cFlight of the Swan\u201d expedition, led by conservationist Sacha Dench, aims to study and raise awareness about the threats over the Bewick swans, by flying on paramotors their entire migration route next to them: some 7,000km from the arctic back to the UK. The team expects to spend about 10 weeks on this journey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,520],"tags":[1111,755,756,754,1014,104,753],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-image","category-paramotor-en","tag-bewick-en","tag-birds","tag-dudek","tag-flight-of-the-swan","tag-paramotor-en","tag-paramotor","tag-sacha-dench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ojovolador.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}