'Human swan' to take flight on new mission to follow migrating ospreys

Conservationist Sacha Dench will also log marine mammals she sees from her paramotor on the 7,000km journey across Europe and Africa

Sacha Dench is not one to sit still. Known to many as the human swan" for her record-breaking journey tracking migrating swans in a motorised paraglider, the conservationist and adventurer is planning her next aerial mission: to follow ospreys migrating 7,000km across Europe and Africa.

It's really hard to get people to care about migratory species because they are not the responsibility of any one country," says Dench, who founded Conservation Without Borders and was named as a UN ambassador for migratory species this year. Birds often don't fit within borders so they don't sit in national action plans unless they breed there. But we need to think of conservation in terms of a species' entire flyway or migratory track."