“there was a commotion in the rhino house . . .”

Urban wildlife comes in many guises – and sizes. But could an animal as huge as a rhinoceros stroll the streets? Well, yes, and that animal is the Indian rhino. The second-largest of five extant speci

The article by jess stevens on black rhinos in Namibia (‘My only option was to pretend to be a tree’, October 2025) reminded me of my visits there more than 20 years ago, when I volunteered for variou

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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

My hog haven is my latest prickly passion

The leading conservationists tell Niall Hampton about their Sacred Nature Initiative