Colca Canyon in southern Peru is a remarkable place. At over 10,000 feet from top to bottom it is one of the deepest canyons in the world (almost twice as deep as the Grand Canyon). Colca Canyon is as deep as the Pyrenees are tall. We spent a few days enjoying the incredible scenery and … Read More
After spending a week in Uppsala for a DNA barcoding workshop as part of my PhD I decided to delay my flight home by five days so I could do some hiking and nature photography in Sweden. I rented a car on the Friday afternoon after the workshop ended and drove 500km north up to … Read More
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
There are lots of places in Australia where you can see captive koalas, and in Queensland you are even able to pay a few dollars to hold one, but we had no interest in this. We were desperate to see a wild koala in its natural habitat! Our Australian road-trip took us up from Sydney … 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
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
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
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