Remember those lazy summer days as a youngster, outside, running around with Nature everywhere. Remember those gorgeous fluttering companions flitting from flower to flower and dancing together in clear blue skies? That’s right, the spring and summer butterflies brightening up the days! Now, there is always a lot of doom and gloom about species being [...]
When a branch snaps off a tree, it might be dead or it might be the weight of all the air plants (epiphytes) growing on it, it isn’t always a certain fact that it will fall to the ground. If, after a violent storm, the top of a tree is damaged then the same again [...]
During my time in Zambia, Africa, I had the fortune to work on a crocodile farm. This farm wasn’t the usual ‘for skins and meat’ kind of farm, it was a place where crocodiles that were giving the locals ‘trouble’ were released after capture – by ‘trouble’ I mean eating their livestock or the locals [...]
Continue reading about Relocation, sometimes it’s necessary!
We are all familiar with the spectacle of lions on the prowl somewhere on the great plains of Africa. Maybe on the same wildlife television series we have seen other pack animals hunting together, chasing their prey, tiring them out and then going in for the kill. In the jungles of the Americas and in [...]
Slash and burn is a name for a type of forestry clearance used commonly in the jungle. The jungle looks to the ordinary person like a rich fertile environment, ideal for a spot of agriculture. But the problem is that all the nutrients and goodness is in what you can see, not under your feet. [...]
