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 […]
Are you on the wrong continent for your graduation and worried that you will forever be upstaged on your mum’s living room shelf by a glowing photo of your preferred sibling, who graduated from Warwick University with dual honours in French with Italian? Then this could well be the blog […]
Ten days ago my machete snapped clean in half trying to cut through a fallen tree trunk on a jungle trail. The week before, Paddy broke two others. He bent the blade of the first one chopping through some branches on the logging track which were blocking the car. He […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When we think of wars or political volatility, we understandably think of the immediate toll this has on humans. Wildlife conservation, on the other hand, is easier to think of as a separate sphere of activities, concerned with planting nice trees or picking up beach-side plastic. But this is not […]
Imagine the entire population of China suddenly tripled overnight. How would we feed these extra mouths without driving wildlife and wild places into oblivion? Although this sounds like the potential plot to a disaster movie flop, over the next thirty years this is the problem that humanity is facing. By […]