Under pressure

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at

The animals I grew up with still need our help, says Saba Douglas-Hamilton

As a child, the zoo felt like a magical world – lionesses lounging under dull British skies, laminated tanks of rare reptiles and flurries of exotic birds I had only ever seen in books. I was raised o

IN only eight years, multi-award-winning artist Amrit Singh has raised over £200,000 for charities by creating public artworks across the UK. A giant hare, three almost-life-size giraffes, several ele

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

DANGEROUS ANIMALS