“europe seems hellbent on creating the most hostile environment for bears possible”

For many people, the word ‘wolverine’ will conjure up the image of a ripped Hollywood superhero, rather than a bear-like creature the size of a dog that lives in the snowy forests, tundra and mountain

T he whisper, sharp with excitement, cuts through the silence: “It’s a bear.” One of our group is pointing to a hillside in the distance, where beech trees tumble down into a valley veiled in drizzle.

“I know she’s there,” says Dennis. We’re standing on a grassy ridge above a tree-lined watercourse, squinting through binoculars at a tangle of sticks in the canopy of a tall Podocarpus. “Last time, I

Swine dining: pannage has begun in the New ...

To understand why there is continued acrimony over our uplands, with the illegal killing of raptors, such as hen harriers, still a major point of contention, you have to realise this is not just – or

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel