Exactly one month into a three-month long expedition in Borneo and we’ve still not started our fieldwork. And it’s all down to a collapsed bridge and an abandoned road. The moment we landed into Lahad Datu town, our final stopover before reaching the world-famous jungles of Danum Valley, our local […]
This episode of Conservation Uncut was recorded in the middle of a jungle in Malaysian Borneo after a morning spent hunting for dung beetles using traps baited with human crap. Sitting on a rotten log in leech infested rainforest, Gianluca chats with jungle explorer and adventurer Nathan Trowbridge. A few […]
Hands down my favourite film is Tarzan (the Disney version). The soundtrack is amazing. The animals are awesome. And Tarzan is a badass. More than once at Uni, my mate Dan and I would cook omelettes for breakfast whilst listening to Son of Man by Phil Collins. I’m pretty sure […]
Happiness is finding something you really love doing and making sure you actually make time to do it! It’s an obvious thing to say and it’s unbelievably cliché, but I happen to think it’s true. It’s really easy to get bogged down worrying about the small things in life and […]
In episode 3 of Conservation Uncut, Gianluca Cerullo chats with Francis Masse about how biodiversity conservation intersects with security, the impacts of different anti-poaching approaches for protecting the rhino, the growing trend of military involvement and military techniques in conservation, whether ivory funds terrorism, and the challenges of a community-based […]
Last year, for the first time in its history, Tesco announced a three-lettuce ration on the purchasing of icebergs. A few months later, Brazil Nuts suddenly vanished from one of the UK’s favourite cereal bars, replaced with a package printed apology that read “Sorry no brazils!”. Some 7 years before […]
In Episode #2 of Conservation Uncut, Gianluca speaks with Joli Borah. Joli conducts research in remote regions of Northeast India where few scientists have ventured, right on the Myanmar border. She works and lives for months at a time with indigenous tribes who use an ancient agricultural system called […]
So I recently launched the new podcast, Conservation Uncut, which is now also on iTunes! For Episode 1, my mate Alex and I met with David Kwarteng, co-founder of the charity Herp Ghana and an all-round inspirational guy. If you missed it, feel free to give it a listen. In […]
A critically endangered frog that whistles like a human, lives on top of a mountain, and is a victim of its own deliciousness. A game of football in the name of frog conservation. And the first amphibian-focused wildlife reserve in Africa.
The programme starts with two friends from the Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab stocking an airline service trolley with dung beetle grub stew and noodles fried in black soldier fly fat. It only gets weirder after that… BUGS is a documentary that follows the gastronomic adventures of chefs and researchers Josh […]