Christian Cooper — the black male and avid hen-watcher at the heart of the 2020 “Central Park Karen” fiasco — has scored a Tv gig at National Geographic.
Cooper, 59, will host a series for the character channel named “Extraordinary Birder.”
The lifelong hen enthusiast will just take viewers “into the wild, great and unpredictable planet of birds,” according to National Geographic.
The channel has nevertheless to announce a release day.
“Whether 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 whatever it takes to master about these amazing feathered creatures and present us the outstanding globe in the sky earlier mentioned,” the community reported in a assertion.
Cooper, a Harvard College graduate, has been an avid warbler-watcher due to the fact he was 10. He just lately shared with the New York Moments that he “was all in” when he was requested to host the upcoming present.
6 episodes have previously been filmed and developed. “I like spreading the gospel of birding,” he told the publication.
The Very long Island indigenous also observed that he anticipates that the show will make it possible for other folks to “stop and watch and listen and actually start out appreciating the unquestionably spectacular creatures that we have among us.”
In 2020, a pet-walker named Amy Cooper (no relation) called the cops on Christian Cooper in Central Park while he was birdwatching, declaring he was “threatening” her.
A movie of the incident went viral at the time, displaying Cooper telling the woman that it was illegal to leave her cocker spaniel unleashed in the park.
The altercation concluded with Amy telling the Nationwide Audubon Culture member that she was contacting the cops “to inform them there’s an African-American gentleman threatening my life.”
Amy was afterwards billed with submitting a untrue police report as nicely as a misdemeanor with a penalty of a 12 months in jail.
In February 2021, the fees in opposition to her were being dismissed immediately after she finished therapy programs.
Almost a yr right after the incident, Amy sued her ex-employer for “racial discrimination” and stated she’s “terrified” to stroll her puppy right after the incident.
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