Hi there, I’m stuck in Jakarta airport waiting to get home and thought I’d like to remind the snorkelers among us of a trip I have coming up next June. …
Here is my trip report for Raja Ampat and the Banda Sea with Pindito. In the end, one of the earliest and furthest northern cyclones to ever develop in the …
Have you ever wondered, where are the teachers, doctors and fire fighters in conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create …
A couple of interesting studies came out this week. If any of you have read Wildlife in the Balance you may recall me talking about the number of whales in …
In the marshmallow challenge a bunch of CEOs and primary school kids were given marshmallows and toothpicks and told to build the tallest structure possible within a certain amount of …
I’m writing this in the noisy departure lounge of Nadi Airport, Fiji. The plane is delayed a couple of hours, so I thought I’d start thinking about one of the …
The other day I wrote an article about scientific catastrophising. In How to Survive the Next 100 Years: Lessons from Nature I’ve also delved into how news algorithms amplifyAmplification (of …
I’ve been away for a couple of weeks taking a group of friends and family to Fiji so this is just a quick udpate. I don’t normally do tours outside …
Last week I was delighted to be invited onto this forum, alongside Marc Oremus of the ShellBank (Turtle) Project, Tia Bool of Project Restore and Matt Singleton from the Odonata Foundation. …
If any of you have followed my writing for long, you’ll know I bestow a grim power on plants. As nature’s first recipients of the Sun’s eroding energy they become …
