Kinabatangan river snakes through Northern Borneo like a…snake. The jungles that hug its margins are oozing with wildlife, including snakes. Cruising down the river is on the to-do list of most people that travel to Borneo, including people that want to see snakes. I’ve been lucky enough to travel by […]
In an ideal world we would protect the whole alphabet of animals, from aardvarks through to zebra sharks. But conservation doesn’t happen in an ideal world—it happens on a shoestring budget. Future extinction rates could get as high as three species disappearing per hour, which leaves conservationists with some very […]
A bit of a bumble into the world of fiction. In 2015, in the build-up to the Paris Climate Summit, I wrote a short story. It ended up winning the Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative Short Story Prize, which I remember being pretty chuffed about back at the time, […]
In Indonesia and Malaysia, hungrily expanding oil-palm plantations are swallowing pristine jungles. In the Brazilian Amazon, cattle-ranching has chewed up an area of forest the size of Italy in just 22 years. In Madagascar, an explosion in sapphire mining is nibbling away at natural treasures. Now, we can pinpoint with increasing certainty a […]