As a professional wildlife photographer and tour guide, one of my favourite places to travel to is the Brazilian Pantanal. This area is most famous for the third largest cat in the world, the jaguar. The name jaguar comes from an indigenous name “yaguar” which means “he who kills with […]
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Since I read Isabella Tree’s ‘Wilding’ book, I have wanted to visit Knepp. The book describes the incredible journey of turning Knepp Castle Estate, once intensively farmed, into a pioneering rewilding project. In 2002, they began to rewild 1400 hectares of heavy Low Weald clay farmland, that had historically been […]
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In this Leica Nature Blog, the Birds on the Edge Campaign, a National Lottery Heritage Funded project run by The North York Moors National Park Trust with the goal of preserving four at risk bird species in the area, pays homage to the Common Redstart. Among the many captivating birds that […]
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The further north I headed, the brighter the skies, and as I pulled into Rutland for my first Global Birdfair, I was treated to an overhead sighting of a lapwing, the purple gloss of its iridescent scapulars glistening in the morning sunshine. It was in that exact moment that the […]
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On the 27th of April Leica London are excited to be hosting a walk with co-leader of the Feminist Bird Club England and bird taxidermist, Elle Kaye. For those who don’t know you, please you introduce yourself. I’m Elle Kaye, a taxidermist, birder, conservationist and nature advocate living in London. […]
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I regularly traverse the four corners of the globe ostensibly on the search for urban birds which often leads me to the least likely of urban spots. When I got an invitation from the Falkland Islands Tourism Board to come for a visit I just could not resist. Every now […]
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What does the Apollo 11 moon landing have to do with migratory waterbirds in Africa? Well, the link can be found in the optical equipment that was used during the successful mission to the moon in 1969 and the high-precision optical equipment that will soon be used by a network […]
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I’d been in the Brazilian Pantanal for 6 weeks, camping on the edge of the Rio Piquiri. It was the midst of dry season, by midday 45 degrees Celsius wasn’t unusual and the ground was parched. Each day I’d head away from the river, 10km inland towards a large waterhole […]
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When I worked as an Animator and Designer in Soho on shows such as Peppa Pig and Hey Duggee, I would often pop over on my lunch break to the annual Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition at the Mall Galleries to see the incredible artwork created by some of the […]
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Leica are delighted to announce their new partnership with the North Yorkshire Turtle Dove Project. In celebration we have also launched the ‘Doodle a Dove’ competition where you could be in with the chance of winning a pair of the Leica Trinovid 10×32 HD-Plus binoculars. Read on to learn more […]
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