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One of the largest celebrations in the world is about to begin. The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is a 15-day celebration at the end of winter, and this year it kicks off at the start of the l

From its very beginning, Adelaide was a city designed to be loved. Today, 190 years on from its founding, Australia’s park-filled jewel is no less appealing

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

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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

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