Conservationist To Fly Thousands Of Kilometers Alongside Migrating Swans On Epic Journey

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Dench during a practice flight. Flight of the Swans/WWT

In a once-of-a-kind endeavor, a conservationist is planning to travel across 11 different countries, over a distance of 7,250 kilometers (4,500 miles), from the Russian Arctic all the way to the United Kingdom. She’ll be following the migration of a threatened species of swan, but not from the ground: She’ll be paragliding alongside them the entire way.