From my time exploring New Zealand and Australia last year, seeing Dingoes on K’Gari was definitely the most goosebump-inducing experience! K’Gari, also known by the colonial name of Fraser Island, is the largest sand island in the world. K’Gari is a word from the local aboriginal people’s language that means “paradise”. With hundreds of kilometers … Read More
Seeing glowworms was very high up on my to do list this year when I spent the austral summer months in New Zealand and Australia travelling around in a campervan. I loved the idea of standing inside a dark cave and being surrounded by hundreds of tiny, living stars, shining down on me. In the … Read More
Last month my girlfriend and I hired a car in Barcelona and drove up to the Spanish Pyrenees for a few days of hiking and bird watching. We stayed in a small campsite in Valle de Bujaruelo beside Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. We decided to spend one of our days in the mountains … Read More
For ten days at the beginning of November I went on a field trip to Kenya with a group of zoology, botany and environmental science students from Trinity College. The trip focused on ecology and conservation in Kenya’s portion of the East African Rift Valley but we were fortunate enough to learn a great deal about … Read More
“Do I hear 30,000? Yes, 32, 34, 36! 38? Do I hear 38,000? Yes, any more? Come on you can go higher, 39,000! Does anyone have 40? Yes, 41? Oh 41,000 on the left side. Going once, twice, sold! That’s one male sable antelope sold for 41,000 Rand”. One of the most bizarre experiences of my life … Read More
In George Monbiot’s book, “Feral”, he writes about ‘rewilding the land, sea and human life’. Rewilding the land and sea is something I’ve come across before, I’ve been taught aspects of it as a zoology student. ‘Rewilding human life’, on the other hand, was an entirely new concept for me and it really hit home. … Read More