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Empowering Local Women in Conservation
There is an invisible thread connecting Mombasa, Kenya and the coast of East Africa with Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and the vast Gobi Desert—in terms of global conservation and my own journey; let me explain. In June, my Wil…
Farming always plays the victim
Always beware of headlines with the word ‘could’ in them, and look for evidence of the dire event weakly predicted – often there is little evidence to back it up. Which food is going to be short and what is the evidence?…
Rod Liddle
I met Rod Liddle several times, going back to the time when he was editor of the Radio 4 Today programme and visited the RSPB at The Lodge. I’ve been interviewed by him several times for radio and Times TV. He was a prop…
In Mongolia, Looking Beyond the Snow Leopard
Earlier this year, our WCS Mongolia team fitted a GPS collar to a snow leopard in Mongolia’s South Gobi. We named him Sukhee. Since then, Sukhee has travelled hundreds of kilometres across unprotected rugged mountains, v…
Tiger Population Surges Past 400 in One of the Greatest Wildlife Comebacks of Our Time
This Global Tiger Day, Nepal announced that its wild tiger population has surpassed 400 individuals. To appreciate what that number represents, consider where the country started. In 2009, just 121 tigers remained in Nep…
Redwood National Park Fact Sheet
Location: Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, California, United States Size: 130,000+ acres of combined federal and state public lands Established: October 2, 1968 (National Park); combined management with California State…
Joshua Tree National Park Fact Sheet
Location: Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, California, United States Size: 795,156 acres (Slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island) Established: August 10, 1936 as a National Monument; October 31, 1994 as a N…
Ghosts
The show takes a spooky turn as we go on a ghost hunt through the natural world. Sebastian shares his adventures finding fossils – the traces of animals that once lived, and Rutendo talks about her experiences in The Cra…
Order and chaos
The difference between order and chaos can depend on your perspective. The systems and processes that drive the natural world might seem random in close-up, whether it’s an ant wandering around near its nest, or a wildeb…
Rhythm
Sebastian is not afraid to admit that he lacks natural rhythm. But Rutendo thinks he’s too hard on himself – perhaps the world is just out of sync with him. Besides, every living thing is built upon natural rhythms, from…
Individuals
In an age of individualism, sometimes we are more connected than we think. And the same is true for everything on the planet. Rutendo and Sebastian explore the question of how and why we define an individual, a colony, o…
Threat
It’s a scary world out there, as we explore how everything on the planet – from humankind to glaciers – must be able to respond to threat in order to survive. Sebastian surprises Rutendo with a story of the time he lived…
Reflections
Light and reflection are crucial across the animal kingdom, and sometimes they interact in strange and surprising ways. Rutendo tells Sebastian about the time she carried out a classic experiment, the mirror test, with…