The leading conservationists tell Niall Hampton about their Sacred Nature Initiative

I’d just dropped Sarah off at a small railway station in Scotland and, after several weeks travelling together, I was on my own again. She was heading home to Cornwall, leaving me free to devote time

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How did you get into photography? It started with birdwatching – my first camera was given to me during a mid-winter bird count in Bulgaria in 2005. I became obsessed with wildlife photography and was