Christian Cooper, the Black birdwatcher who went viral after he recorded a white lady wrongfully accusing him of threatening her in Central Park, is getting his personal TV present on Nationwide Geographic.
Nat Geo introduced this week that Cooper–who beforehand mentioned in interviews he’s been chicken watching since he was 10–will host a brand new collection for the channel referred to as Extraordinary Birder, the place viewers will probably be thrust into Cooper’s “wild, great and unpredictable world of birds.”
“Whether or not braving stormy seas in Alaska for puffins, trekking into rainforests in Puerto Rico for parrots, or scaling a bridge in Manhattan for a peregrine falcon, he does no matter it takes to study these extraordinary feathered creatures and present us the outstanding world within the sky above,” the community mentioned in a assertion.
The channel has but to announce a premiere date for the brand new collection, however Cooper advised The New York Occasions when Nat Geo approached him with the concept he was “all in.”
“I like spreading the gospel of birding,” he advised the publication.
The birdwatcher garnered nationwide consideration again in 2020 after he recorded a video in New York Metropolis’s Central Park of a white lady named Amy Cooper (no relation) calling the police and making false claims about him threatening her and her canine.
“I’m within the Ramble,” Cooper is seen saying on the cellphone. “And there’s a man, African American — he has a bicycle helmet. He’s recording me and threatening me and my canine.”
The 2020 video was uploaded on-line mere hours earlier than George Floyd’s homicide in Minneapolis and helped to kickstart the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that swept throughout the nation.
Amy Cooper was fired from her job and charged with a third-degree misdemeanor over making a false declare. The cost was later dropped as a results of her non-existent legal historical past.
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