Echidna rediscovered, after believed to be extinct for 60 years.
The Attenborugh’s long beaked echidna has been rediscoevered, by a group of students on a four week expedition.
Expeditions
Tajikistan 2023 Expedition
Dr Chris Clark, veteran of many CFZ expeditions had for some time wanted to return to the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. He decided to take a small team back there in the summer of 2023. He wanted to concentrate on the Karatag Valley in the north-west of the country. Chris had worked on editing Russian scientists, Boris Porshnev’s unpublished 1963 book on relic hominids. From Porshnev’s expeditions and research he thought the area would prove fruitful.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology had published Porshnev’s work as The Soviet Sasquatch and it contained many accounts from the west of Tajikistan. He wrote:
“The area situated between the Karatag and Shirkent Rivers, and the Karatag Valley stretching to the mountains to the Mura Pass leading to Iskanderkul Lake, was once, according to the nomadic Uzbek people, inaccessible to people. A Tajik villager from Hakimi said that the Pashmi Valley has a rich walnut forest and water, but had long been devoid of people because …”the hairy wild men from the mountains would push boulders down the mountain and throw stones and force people to leave these places.”
Jonathan Downes
6th November 2023
New species described in 2022
New species described in 2022
Richard Freeman
7th February 2022
THE CFZ HELP THE POLICE WITH THEIR ENQUIRIES: THE LOFTUS WALLABY RIPPER: expedition report 2002 By Richard Freeman
The CFZ help the police with their investigations into the Wallaby Ripper
THE HUNT FOR THE BOLAM “BEAST” – A PRELIMINARY REPORT. 17th – 21st January 2003
An overview of the findings of the Bolam Lake expedition in the hunt for British Bigfoot.
CROCODILE HUNTING IN THE MIDLANDS – Chris’s Account of the Expedition
Beastwatch UK’s Chris Mullins weighs in on his time on the CFZ Expedition to Cannock Chase to hunt for the Crocodile
CROCODILE HUNTING IN THE MIDLANDS – Mark Martin’s initial investigations – Introduction
Mark Martin presents his initial investigation report prior to the CFZ team’s official expedition to search for the Cannock Chase Crocodile
CROCODILE HUNTING IN THE MIDLANDS – Jon’s Account of the Expedition
CFZ Director Jonathan Downes recounts his experience of the Cannock 2003 expedition to investigate the case of the Cannock Chase Crocodile.
CROCODILE HUNTING IN THE MIDLANDS – Mark’s Account of the Expedition
Mark Martin provides his report on the hunt for the Cannock Crocodile, including his own eye-witness account.
CROCODILE HUNTING IN THE MIDLANDS – Nigel’s Account of the Expedition
Nigel Wright reports from Cannock Chase on the hunt for the crocodile and the fun that was had by all!