Carwardine later said: "We put a big map of the world on a wall, Douglas stuck a pin in everywhere he fancied going, I stuck a pin in where all the endangered animals were, and we made a journey out of every place that had two pins. Last Chance to See: With Stephen Fry, Mark Carwardine, Batian Craig, Peter Jackson. The Observer project was successful, and Adams and Carwardine developed a radio series around the same concept for BBC Radio 4.
Adams was met in Madagascar by zoologist Mark Carwardine (who was working for the WWF at the time). Hilarious and poignantas only Douglas Adams can be Last Chance to See is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth’s magnificent wildlife galaxy. Here you can find the text of his readings and a selection of the pictures taken during the expedition. From May 5th to May 9th 1997 he read his account of what happened on BBC Radio 4. The trip was part of a project by the World Wide Fund for Nature and British Sunday newspaper The Observer, sending well-known authors to remote places to seek endangered species and write articles for The Observer Magazine, to help raise awareness of ecological issues. Douglas Adams travelled to the remote island of Komodo in search of dragons, equipped only with a zoologist, a BBC producer and a dead goat. In 1985, Douglas Adams went to Madagascar in search of the (possibly extinct) lemur the aye-aye. In 2009, the BBC broadcast a television follow-up series of the same name, with Stephen Fry replacing the late Adams.
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