Friday Photo: Cheetah
Cheetah are not doing well. Everyone knows about their fabled speed and agility, but few realise quite how fragile they are. Many of us have seen them in zoo's..
Empty Quarter Expedition: Kit
An expedition doesn't start in the field. It begins months (probably years) before with hushed conversations, excitable research and lists, lists, lists..
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Friday Photo: Blue Wildebeest
Yesterday, for the first time in two months, I woke up in frosty England, a world away from Africa. Having grown up in the urban wilderness of North Essex..
The Empty Quarter Expedition: History
The Sultanate of Oman is a unique land in the Arabian Peninsula, home to mankind for millennia. Despite Oman’s largely arid and formidable terrain, it is home to..
12 Things I’ll miss about South Africa
My time in South Africa is rapidly drawing to a close, tomorrow I fly home to a chilly but festive England. Here's 12 things I'll miss about the rainbow nation..
Friday Photo: Rhino Monitoring
It was a Tuesday, the day after I wrote about That Monday morning feeling, and we left early to check our small mammal traps. En route we came across this male White Rhino..
A Micro Adventure
Getting from A to B has never been easier, faster or lazier. There’s an awful lot of positives to that, but one niggling little flaw is all the places you miss on the way..
Friday Photo: Speaking at a school in South Africa
As part of the work on UmPhafa Reserve we work with local schools and the community. Recently, I was able to visit the school in Colenso..
On Fences: A uniquely South African approach to conservation
I dream of wide open spaces, the wild places. Africa, I had imagined, would have more than it's fair share of these..
10,000 hits and that Monday morning feeling
It’s a Monday morning and I’ve got that all too infrequent Monday morning feeling; excitement..
Friday Photo: African Plains
A lone tree stands simply on the plains.