Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE
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Known for: Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a British explorer, author, conservationist and co-founder of Survival International; a human rights organisation that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples. In , he was named by The Sunday Times as ‘the greatest explorer of the past twenty years’.
School days: Hanbury-Tenison was at Eton from to and was in A.K. Wickham’s and Revd. R.D.F. Wild’s house. Eton’s Natural History Museum holds a collection of approximately artefacts from his travels during the ss. He collected items from all over the world, including the Amazonas, Sahara and Kalahari, Borneo, Indonesia, India and Panama.
Life and Career: Born in , Hanbury-Tenison was raised in County Monaghan, Ireland. Educated by his mother until the age of eight, he followed his education at Eton with a degree from Magdalen College, Oxford. Hanbury-Tenison began exploring early, when in he drove from London to Ceylon in a jeep, and closely followed this with the first ever land crossing of South America – 6, miles at its widest point – for which he won the RGS Ness Award. He has been a Council Member (), Vice-President () and Gold Medalist
Robin Hanbury-Tenison on Cornwall, tribal peoples and Survival International
Described in byThe Spectator as ‘the doyen of British Explorers’, writer and conservationist Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE is the founder of 'Survival International', which since has protected the rights of tribal peoples around the world. He lives on Bodmin Moor. Phone interview by Rupert White.
What motivated your first exploratory trips?
It was, sort of, running away.
I left University in '57, by which time I'd already hitch-hiked all over Europe. When I left Oxford I drove to Ceylon and had a very exciting time for 3 months. I had Angkor Wat all to myself, and Pagan in Burma (photo right by R H-T). Nobody else was visiting these places then.
Presumably they weren't yet recognised as tourist destinations. Did you imagine you could write books about your travels at that point?
No. But I took lots of photographs, worked my passage across the Pacific, got down to Mexico and came briefly back to England. Which then led to the first crossing (East to West) of South America in
This must have been one of your most challeng
An Army major now dedicating his life to conservationism and rewilding his corner of Cornwall has written about his neighbours "kidnapping" his beavers. Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, son of the famous explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, said his neighbours on the edge of Bodmin Moor kept the two adult beavers and their three kits for themselves and did not return them to him when he is the one with a licence to reintroduce the wild animals in the first place. In the Spectator magazine, Mr Hanbury-Tenison, who runs Cabilla Cornwall with his wife Lizzie, and runs retreats for veterans and NHS staff and carries out nature restoration and conservation work on hisupland hill-farm through the Thousand Year Trust charity he has set up, admitted that the beavers have escaped six times since being reintroduced back in He said that when they last did a runner, he was contacted by his neighbour about the escapees but when he "drove through a storm" to the coordinates he had been given, he was stopped at the cattle grid that marked his neighbour's land and was refused entry. In his article for the Spectator e
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison describes his life-and-death battle with coronavirus - and the moment he opened his eyes in Derriford Hospital's secret garden
Mr Hanbury-Tenison came home late yesterday, just three days before his 84th birthday, defying all the odds.
Speaking from his home near Bodmin this morning, he described the “extraordinary journey” he had been through, praising the “wonderful NHS nurses” who helped to bring him through the ordeal.
The explorer was the first named person in the South West to fall dangerously ill with Covid in early March, soon after returning from a skiing trip in France.
For the first five weeks in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Mr Hanbury-Tenison was in an induced coma with multiple organ failure, his son Merlin said. He was on dialysis and a ventilator and his lungs were filled with fluid.
For weeks the family had been convinced they would never see him alive again, and on three separate occasions doctors had warned them that he was unlikely to pull through.
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