Iolo Williams, Jack Waldie, Theo de Clermont and Ewan Miles, of Nature Scotland, recently took a group of ten guests in search of the Island of Mull’s wildlife. The guides were equipped with two Leica APO-TELEVID spotting scopes, a pair of Leica Noctivid 8×42 and Leica Trinovid 10x 42 binoculars. […]
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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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In my role as The Urban Birder, I have been lucky enough to have visited countless locations around the globe and have had a brilliant time doing what I love most – watching birds. During May this year, I was honoured to have been invited to America to be a […]
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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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I love the night. As humans we see so little of what goes on in the natural world once the sun sets, historically, as hunter gatherers it would have been when we retired to the safety of a cave, or the comfort of a fire, waiting for the sun to […]
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The African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) Secretariat and Leica Sportoptics have agreed to work together to further develop and strengthen waterbird monitoring across Africa and Eurasia. Under a three-year partnership, Leica Sportoptics will provide financial support to the Waterbird Fund hosted by Wetlands International as well as annual donations of optical […]
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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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