The Courthouse | Saturday 26th | 4 pm | Sponsor: Flynn Furney Environmental Consultants
A special interactive live event for the whole family "Wild child:" My animal adventures from Monaghan to Malawi and beyond, a a very special live event at CFF ...
Growing up in Ballybay in the 1990s, Jonny Hanson wanted to be one thing more than any other: a big cat conservationist.
Fast forward three decades and Jonny has worked with and researched big cats and other wildlife species on four continents, focusing especially on how they can share landscapes with farming. Join him in what is shaping up to be a very special live event at CFF 2024 for an interactive exploration of this story, including exclusive behind- the-scenes footage of his animal adventures, as well as a screening of the trailer from his in- development documentary. From tracking leopards in Malawi, Africa as a teenager and working with most big cat species in captivity, through to researching snow leopard conservation in the Himalaya and addressing the complexities of potentially returning species like this to Ireland:
Wild Child is the story of our shared fascination with the world around us.
Jonny Hanson is an environmental social scientist at Queen's University Belfast and an award-winning social entrepreneur who set up and managed Northern Ireland’s first community-owned farm. Raised between Ballybay and Malawi, Africa, he has a PhD in snow leopard conservation from the University of Cambridge and is an Affiliate of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. His first book, on whether we could and should reintroduce large carnivores to Britain and Ireland, is out in early 2025, and his first documentary, on snow leopard conservation in western Nepal, is in development.
