Ben Chapple

Ben completed a master’s degree at UCL in ‘Biodiversity, Evolution & Conservation’, having previously studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He grew up on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset – the UK’s most biodiverse area; this, along with a childhood visit to the Galapagos Islands, helped to trigger his love of natural history, and he has since travelled widely in search of wildlife; some of Ben’s favourite encounters during that time have been with pangolins and Yellow-headed Picathartes in Ghana, African Wild Dogs in Botswana, Mountain Gorillas and Shoebills in Uganda, Tigers in India, orangutans in Sumatra, and Blue Whales in the Azores.