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Cindy Buxton Born Lucinda Catherine Buxton
August 21, 1950Nationality British Education New Hall School Occupation Film-maker Known for Wildlife films The Honourable Lucinda Catherine "Cindy" Buxton FRGS (born 21 August 1950)[1] is a British wildlife film-maker, photographer and author.[2]
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Background and education
The third of the six children of Lord Buxton of Alsa (founder of Anglia Television and the television series Survival) and Pamela Mary Birkin, daughter of Sir Henry Birkin,[3][4] she was educated at New Hall School, Chelmsford, Essex.[5]
Professional career
Her first wildlife film was released in 1971, when she was just 21 years old. She later became involved in filming wildlife documentary films (chiefly for her father's nature documentary television series Survival). In 1978 she co-wrote the first scientific paper about the Shoebill, in Zambia.[5][6] Her 1980 book "Survival in the Wild" is about her first 8 years in Africa.
During a filming expedition on South Georgia in March 1982, Cindy Buxton and her assistant Annie Price were caught up in the Falklands War. They were trapped for four weeks before they were rescued by a helicopter from HMS Endurance.[2][4][7] This and her previous three years there and in Antarctica are described in her book "Survival: South Atlantic". She was subsequently invited to return for the Falkland Islands' 150th anniversary celebrations in February 1983.[7]
Buxton and Annie Price won the Media Award of the Variety Club of Great Britain for 1982[2] and Buxton was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She now works in the field of video presentation of legal proceedings, for Z-Axis, which she joined in 1997.[5][8]
South Georgia Island
Buxton Glacier (54°26′S 36°12′W / 54.433°S 36.2°W) is a glacier flowing northeast into St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia. This glacier was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1987 after Buxton and her parents.[9]
Works
Films
- Nakuru (1971)
- Floating Worlds of Naivasha (1972)
- Edge of the Abyss (1973)
- Almost a Dodo (1975)
- The Last Kingdom of the Elephants (1977)
- The Down Makers (1979)
- Penguin Island (1980)
- Falkland Summer (1981)
- Stranded on South Georgia (1982)
- Opportunity South Atlantic (1982)
- Built for the Kill (2001)
Books
- Buxton, Cindy (1980). Survival in the wild. London :: Collins,. pp. 102 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.. ISBN 0002160986.
- Woods, Robin Wilfrid; Cindy Buxton, Annie Price (1982). Falkland Islands birds. Oswestry :: Anthony Nelson,. pp. 79p, 32p. of plates (chiefly col.) : ill. ; 21cm.. ISBN 0904614077.
- Buxton, Cindy; Annie Price (1983). Survival South Atlantic. London :: Granada,. pp. xiii,237p.,[64]p. of plates : ill(some col.), maps,col.ports. ; 26cm.. ISBN 0246120878.
References
- ^ thePeerage.com -
- ^ a b c Buxton, Cindy; Annie Price (1983). Survival South Atlantic. London :: Granada,. pp. xiii,237p.,[64]p. of plates : ill(some col.), maps,col.ports. ; 26cm.. ISBN 0246120878.
- ^ thePeerage.com - Person Page 5051
- ^ a b Harmer, Ian (1983-06-17). "Cindy Buxton films King penguins". Ellensburg Daily Record. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19830617&id=5hQQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LY8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5303,8327491. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ a b c "New Hall School - Cindy Buxton". New Hall School. http://www.newhallschool.co.uk/home/oldfishes/famous-old-fishes/cindy-buxton. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- ^ BUXTON, LUCINDA; JENNY SLATER, LESLIE H. BROWN (1978). "The breeding behaviour of the shoebill or whale-headed stork Balaeniceps rex in the Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia". African Journal of Ecology 16 (3): 201–220. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.1978.tb00440.x.
- ^ a b Buxton, Cindy (1983-05). "The 150th Celebrations". Falkland Islands Newsletter (Falkland Islands: The Falkland Islands Association) (14). http://www.falklands.info/history/150thcelebrations.html. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ "Z-Axis". Z-Axis. http://www.zaxisglobal.com/press/london.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- ^ "Buxton Glacier". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:2235. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
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Categories:- British nature writers
- Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
- Living people
- 1950 births
- British film directors
- British photographers
- British people of the Falklands War
- Daughters of barons
- Buxton family
- People educated at New Hall School
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