Richard Newton

Writers bio:
Richard Newton was born in Sunderland, UK, in 1967, and grew up in Africa (Lesotho, Kenya and Botswana). He began his working life as an education officer at Marwell Zoological Park, followed by a spell as a wildlife officer with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in Malawi, before becoming a freelance writer and broadcaster in 1989.

He is a six-time winner in the BBC Wildlife Awards for Nature Writing, and won the Daily Telegraph/Cathay Pacific Young Travel Writer of the Year Award in 1992. Over the past decade he has travelled to more than 60 countries on assignment for national newspapers and BBC Radio, specialising in wildlife tourism. Between travels he lives in Hampshire, though his heart remains in Africa.