Back from the brink?

Urban wildlife comes in many guises – and sizes. But could an animal as huge as a rhinoceros stroll the streets? Well, yes, and that animal is the Indian rhino. The second-largest of five extant speci

The article by jess stevens on black rhinos in Namibia (‘My only option was to pretend to be a tree’, October 2025) reminded me of my visits there more than 20 years ago, when I volunteered for variou

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

W e’re parked up in our Land Cruiser on the golden grasslands of Botswana’s Mababe Depression, surrounded by Cape buffaloes caked in mud. “There must be 3,000 of them here,” our guide Jonah Seboko say

The leading conservationists tell Niall Hampton about their Sacred Nature Initiative

WHAT was your childhood ambition? When Ryan Shorter, now thirty, wrote a letter about his ambition to own his own zoo, he was just twelve years old. No-one imagined this childhood dream would one day