I don’t know about you but I have definitely felt over the last few weeks spring is definitely on the way. I heard my first chiffchaff just a couple of days ago, which is something I always look forward to every year. The characteristic call which is almost onomatopoeic “chiffchaff […]
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As a wildlife photography tour guide, I have been very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to far flung places, such as the Brazilian Pantanal, the Colombian Andes and South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. All of which are incredible in their own right, but going to those places […]
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Our environment is diverse. It is beautiful, mysterious and fascinating. There are many beautiful things to discover in nature and in our urban environment. This requires time, leisure and a special eye. This eye for the extraordinary unites people all over the world. Once you have succumbed to the passion […]
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For as long as I can remember, I have been photographing deer. In fact, I learnt pretty much everything I know about wildlife photography from photographing them. So, every year when autumn comes around, I always get a little excited as I know that this is the time when deer […]
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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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