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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In the second of his two-part guest blog, geographer and adventurer, Francis Highton, writes about the issues of human-wildlife conflict caused by long-term drought as he experienced when he and a team rowed through the wilds of Mozambique on the Zambezi River. Since 2016, Mozambique has experienced a persistent drought […]
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My adoration for the natural world has been with me for over 10 years. It has always been there for me, through school, sixth form, and now university. I’m a proud nature nerd, and what I love most is that there is an infinite amount to learn. My passion has […]
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I have this memory that goes back about forty years, when my marvelous father took me for the first time to observe waders at the Saline di Siracusa, SE Sicily, Italy (my homeland); there was this salt-pan now in disuse, right at the southern gates of my city and the […]
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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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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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Two of the Leica Trinovid binoculars have been handed over to wildlife managers in the Republic of Chad, a landlocked country in north-central Africa, which is of vital importance for migratory waterbirds due to its diverse and expansive wetland ecosystems. Famous wetlands such as Lake Chad and the floodplains of […]
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One of the donated Leica binoculars has found its way to the lush, biodiverse island of Príncipe, which is part of the small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, located in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western coast of Central Africa. Renowned for its stunning natural beauty, the […]
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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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Having spent countless hours in nature all around the globe, I’ve been able to witness some incredible wildlife encounters. I’ve spent hours following a lion pride in Zambias South Luangwa national park as they stalked a Cape buffalo herd, forcing them to cross a boggy watering hole, eventually picking off […]
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