Thursday, 26 June 2014

In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why?...Continued

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Since writing In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why? on 8 April, I have read more and more on antarctic exploration in order: first, to underst...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Forest Elephants in the Republic of Congo. What Species Were We Observing?

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Opportunities to see the animals of the central African rainforests do not come every day. So the privilege of being able to visit groups of...
Saturday, 7 June 2014

Sea Snakes: My Only Sighting

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My earlier Post on the survival of  sea snakes at sea reminded me that I have only seen sea snakes in the wild once, and that was while gent...
Monday, 12 May 2014

Sea Snakes: Raining on the Parade

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An interesting story has hit the newspapers in the last month or so. It is the culmination of research over several years on how sea snakes ...
Monday, 21 April 2014

The Case of the Green Turtle. An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon by Alison Rieser

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I was intrigued by the title of his book. What had been ‘censored’ that could now be revealed was my first question. Even after wading thr...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

Government Committees: A Lancelot Hogben Quote

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Lancelot Hogben (1895-1975) clearly loathed Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders (1886-1966), eugenicist and Director of the London School of Econo...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why?

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Nelson Norman’s 2009 book, In Search of a Penguin’s Egg , worked its way to the top of my to-be-read pile and I found it a fascinating acc...