Gemma and James Shooter, with their two young children Brodie and Isla, and their rescue pup Ty, have embarked on an adventure of a lifetime. They’ve sold their home, bought a camper van named Vivienne, and have set off to find out what ‘wild’ really looks like! Holding our baby […]
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Iris Berger, a PhD student in Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge, talks about the second season of her field research in India. For her accounts on the first season and background to her work read Reconciling Agriculture with Biodiversity – Part I and Part 2 on the Leica […]
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Based at Walthamstow Wetlands, a reservoir complex within the lower Lee Valley, I joined the London Wildlife Trust in this role in 2021. To help explain some of the tasks I do, I will focus on two species that visit the UK during summer to breed. They also happen to […]
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In this guest blog by Leica Sport Optics Ambassador, Luke Massey, he gives us a spring report from his home in northern Spain. This year sees us spending our third spring since taking on Wild Finca, our 13 hectare farm in Asturias. The whole process has been very much trial […]
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In the final of this two-part guest blog geographer and adventurer, Francis Highton, writes about his recent travels off the beaten track in the Balkans. North Macedonia It was time to fully immerse ourselves in nature and get off-grid. There are so many huge national parks in the Balkan region […]
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In the first of this two-part guest blog, geographer and adventurer, Francis Highton, writes about his road trip around Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and North Macedonia. Tourists aim to escape life. Travellers experience it. The Balkan region is not yet one of the places many people choose for their Mediterranean escapes. […]
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From November 2022 to April 2023 Birdingplaces and Leica organized a Rate-Add-And-Win contest among birdwatchers. Any birder who added a birdwatching area to Birdingplaces or rated an area with one to five stars had a chance to win a pair of Leica Ultravid binoculars, a pair of Leica Trinovid binoculars […]
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LONDON, 25TH MAY 2023 — Leica Sport Optics is proud to be supporting Mya Bambrick’s 21 Wildlife Walks campaign, where the young conservationist will be embarking on 21 wildlife walks across the UK before she turns 21. 21 Wildlife Walks Mya will start on the 1st of June and will […]
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I arrived in Andalusia. It was midnight and I followed a gravel road weaving through the mountains. I was in the middle of nowhere. There at the gate was a 4×4 vehicle, with headlights on, quietly purring. Despite my late arrival I was greeted by a man with a warm […]
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In this guest blog Theo De Clermont and Ewan Miles, of Nature Scotland, give a trip report of their recent pre season / tour reconnaissance to the Hebridean Isle of Islay. Equipped with a Leica APO-TELEVID 65 spotting scope and a pair of Leica Noctivid 8×42 binoculars, they cover some […]
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