Because, as we all know, a really really good story can change the world.
Author: Gianluca Cerullo
Podcast #5 Boots on the ground (a conversation with a park ranger)
Appollo was ranger for six years in Selous national park, Tanzania, where he faced regular threats in the bush from wild animals and heavily armed poachers.
Crossing a lake in a homemade recycled raft
I love to go on little adventures. Whether it’s climbing a jungle pylon, or trekking in a river, or running down Europe’s biggest sand dune or trying (and failing) to hammock overnight in the Bornean rainforest, a day with an adventure in it always feels like a day well spent. That’s […]
Trekking down the Tardoire river
Walks next to rivers are nice. Walks in rivers are better. You get a different perspective when your legs are freezing cold and you keep stepping on jagged rocks. And it’s usually a more memorable one. When a few friends and I spent a week in France, we trekked a couple […]
Tidiness: the silent bane of wildlife conservation
Across Tasmania, farmers are erecting miniature wombat-high electric fences to keep the burrowing marsupials from “making a mess” of their cattle pastures. Ten thousand miles away, in Gloucestershire, the Forestry Commission have built shooting towers to help hunters take out wild boar, who are unpopular for the occasional damage they cause to […]
Exploring the insides of Arctic’s global seed vault
Deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, lies the Global Seed Vault. That’s such a cool sentence. I didn’t write it. It’s the sentence that sits at the top of the Crop Trust website, over a picture […]
10 lessons and thoughts learnt macheting 25 kilometres of rainforest
So, the field season in Borneo is over and the numbers are in. We cut through nearly 25 km of logged forest, making a trail system which will be used over the next thirty-years to track whether removing vines can speed up forest recovery after logging. That’s a whole lot […]
Rockpooling and fossil hunting on the Jurassic coast
Just over two hundred years ago a young girl happened upon a 17 foot long fossilised sea monster along the cliffs of the English Channel. Now known as the ichthyosaurus, her discoveries were only just getting started. Over the next thirty-five years Mary Anning would discover the first plesiosaurus and […]
Artwork of extinction: the most important painting in history…that you’ve probably never heard of
I think a strong case could be made that the watercolour painting above is one of the most important pieces of artwork in history. It lacks the grandeur of a Michelangelo fresco or the detail of a Monet. In fact, judged on artistic merit alone, the Duria Antiquior is almost unworthy […]
Roes, raspberries and rockyroads
I am very lucky to live ten minutes away from a deer park. It’s one of my favourite places on the planet. I’ve been going several times a year since I was maybe four and so a week away from my 23rd birthday, and having just got back yesterday from […]