Final call

AS the days remain dark and gloomy in the UK and our garden plants retreat from winter’s chill, the flowers in the Southern Hemisphere continue to open their petals to a glorious summer. Like the flow

A Russia of trees and liberty and peace: ...

Twenty six years ago, Italian writer and gardener Umberto Pasti fell asleep beneath a remote fig tree on a stony hillside facing the Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles south of Tangier. When he awoke, he knew t

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, little-visited tropical rainforest known as the ‘lungs of Africa’. Odzala-Kokoua National Park lies deep in the Republic of Congo and is protected by locals on a mission to guard and conserve the natural wonders on their doorstep

The Land of the Leopard is a national park near Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia, about 50 kilometres northeast of North Korea, and bordering China. It is the primary habitat of both the Amur tig

Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on Earth