PRESS RELEASE:
Tenth anniversary for the Unconventional Traveler Show

Daryl Hawk’s The Unconventional Traveler television show will be celebrating its tenth year anniversary and 102 nd show on Tuesday, June 7 th with “The Life of Jane Goodall”. The show will air at 9PM on cablevision’s channel 77.

Dr. Jane Goodall is the world’s leading authority on chimpanzees. At the age of 23, determined to learn about African wildlife, she left her native England for East Africa, where she hunted for fossils with Louis and Mary Leakey. Three years later, accompanied only by her mother, she began to study chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

The chimpanzees at Gombe gradually accepted Goodall, and, with patient observations, she learned much about them. Before Goodall’s work no one knew just how similarly chimpanzees and humans behave – for example, that chimpanzees make and use tools, or that they eat meat. More than 40 years later, Goodall continues her Gombe work, which is now the longest field study of any wild animal species.

For ten years The Unconventional Traveler has featured some of the world’s leading explorers, travel photographers and filmmakers sharing their work from enlightening journeys and important expeditions that take place in the coldest, hottest, highest, deepest and most remote places on earth – incredible adventures that have helped define our world.

“The goal of the show has always been to tell exciting and fascinating stories that are supported by powerful photographic images and film. I also hope this show has inspired people to protect the wilderness and fragile cultures and wildlife that still exist there. It has been extremely exciting and a great privilege collaborating with these exceptional individuals over the years.”

Some of Mr. Hawk’s favorite shows have included Sir Ernest Shackleton’s survival story in Antarctica, the life of one of the world’s most important naturalists and field biologists – George Schaller, and Robert Anderson’s quest to be the first person to reach the summit of the highest peak on each of the world’s seven continents.

Hawk is looking ahead to the next phase of his television show which he hopes may gain national attention and be featured on a major network like PBS or Discovery. In the meantime, he continues to host and produce shows based from his Wilton studio.