Category: Wildlife
Robert, a Ndorobo with a family to support, lives in the Karissia Hills about 300 km north of Nairobi. Like all Dorobo, he isn’t at all sure when he …
The Brd “fehat Guides I can’t blame Google. Type the words ‘bird guide’ or ‘bird guiding’ into its search facility and up come reams of wildlife holiday companies and …
In ancient Persia where the religion was founded, pre-Islam, it was almost certainly the custom to leave dead bodies untended on some open ground where they would be eaten …
To understand the traditional process of dealing with the Parsi dead in Mumbai, my Parsi hosts suggested I go and talk to a draper who makes traditional Parsi clothes …
It wasn’t long before the metronome-like rhythm of the prayer chanting, led by the two white-robed priests in their tall hats, became soporific in the leaden heat of the …
Spotting seal pups from the clifftops high above their breeding coves isn’t as easy as it might seem. I’ve done it many times and binoculars always prove essential. The …
From the cliff-top path a couple of hundred feet above, these coves backed by steep, sometimes near-vertical rock faces in multiple shades of ochre and grey look as nature …
WEDDINGS Name your dream venue you’ll fi nd it on Oahu: hotels, restaurants, event spaces, beaches, gardens, waterfalls, colonial churches and of beat options like oceanfront estates, yachts and …
Formerly found across North Africa, in Southern Europe and throughout the Middle East, hunting and habitat destruction have rendered it a rarity. Though a few very small populations hang …
I’d got to this isolated village by Jeep with Dr Jose Nunez-Mino, the Field Project Manager for the Hispaniola Endemic Land Mammals Project, funded by the UK’s Durrell Wildlife …