Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Week” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then select the three images you like best of all and click the VOTE button at the bottom of the page. […]
Poll: Should cosmetics containing plastic beads be banned?
After a long day at work, what better way to wash away the stress than a nice, refreshing facial scrub before going to bed? A few years ago, major cosmetics and hygiene product manufacturers devised a way to make this daily ritual even more refreshing: adding tiny plastic microbeads to facial wash that would increase […]
The Promise of Rain
I’ve been keeping this photo under wraps for a while – it just never felt like it was time to share it – until now. By now, if you’ve followed my work for some time, you would know that I have this sort of fetish for contextual atmospheric wildlife photos taken with shorter focal lengths. […]
‘No wilder place on Earth’: explorers tackle the full Okavango Delta
Recently, wildlife news from Africa has been almost universally bleak and frustrating to the point of despair: rhinos with their faces cut off, elephants slaughtered en masse via helicopter, and chimps and gorillas gunned down or snared for bushmeat. A massive onslaught of people, poaching and habitat destruction has led to declines in everything from […]
Swifts migrate from Beijing to southern Africa without landing
Swifts born in Beijing’s old imperial palaces travel 16,000 miles every year to southern Africa and back again without touching ground, and over a lifetime clock up enough miles to get halfway to the moon. New research suggests that after they leave their nests for the first time, the birds spend up to three years […]
Turtle Day
A turtle haiku from Kobayashi Issa, 1825 – “short summer night – in the field turtles cavort”. May 23rd was World Turtle Day, a day for celebrating turtles and tortoises. To raise awareness of them and to help protect their disappearing habitats, I am reposting photos from all the blogs I’ve written about turtles. This […]
Koala cull resumes in Australian tourist destination
They may be a national symbol, but authorities in Australia are culling a colony of koalas in a popular tourist destination. The move from the state government of Victoria is in reaction to the burgeoning koala population at Cape Otway, in the south of Australia. The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWEP) is […]