Africa Wildlife Trust Travel
What I also found out subsequently was that the Keoladeo National Park has a good population of Indian Pythons. They apparently often take over the burrows of other animals …
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Africa World Wildlife Travel Tours
The perils of Hiring a Guide We were struggling through thorny scrub on some very sandy soil. ‘You stay here Mark and I will call when I find …
Africa Top Wildlife Travel Destinations
In spite of the superficial serenity as we glide quietly downriver past extensive, wildlife-rich marshes, rice and bourgou crops, there are other issues here that are hard to spot. …
Iceland Map
‘It takes the down from about 65 nests to produce a kilo of finally cleaned and sterilised down,’ Thorvaldur tells me. ‘We’ve been collecting down since 1992, the year …
Wildlife Travel To Iceland
Why go to Iceland to collect eiderdown? Because Iceland is home to a quarter of a million breeding pairs of Common Eider ducks – out of maybe two million …
Hvallatur Island
It’s late evening on Hvallatur Island off the west coast of Iceland and I’m watching dainty Black Guillemots swim amongst the tangled olive-green seaweed in the shallows around its …
New Forest Travel
The New Forest gets more visitors than any other national park in the UK: around 13 million day visits a year. Tourism is by far the biggest money spinner, …
New Forest Guide for Tourist
According to Florence of Worcester, not as you might imagine a female but actually a well-educated male monk who died in 1118, the forest was known before the Conquest …
World Wildlife Travel Tours
I’d been talking to experts at the Bombay Natural History Society (BHNS), the RSPB’s equivalent in India, and I had mentioned the Deonar tip. I knew that it once …
Top Wildlife Travel Destinations
Animals aren’t capable of considering aesthetics. For all wild creatures, obtaining sufficient food trumps any other consideration. In what sort of location the food might be found is of …