The Story of the K’Gari (Fraser Island) Dingoes

March 11, 2019By JamesConservation, Ecology, Photography, Zoology No Comments

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

Making the South Africa Timelapse

January 19, 2017By JamesConservation, Ecology, Photography No Comments

During the summer, I spent 6 weeks on a South African reserve collecting data for my dissertation. While I was there I took over 4,000 images for a timelapse video. South Africa Timelapse | “Thanks, Benni” Six days into the trip my camera had a ‘falling-off-tripod-accident’ and was sent to camera hospital. Luckily, while my camera … Read More

Kenya Field Trip through Images

November 22, 2016By JamesConservation, Ecology, Zoology 2 Comments

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

How a Leopard Rewilded Me

September 11, 2016By JamesConservation, Ecology, Zoology No Comments

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