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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …