African wild dog

I looked down at my hands, shielded in red mittens, and flexed my fingers. They were badly blistered from frostnip, and I winced. It was early March and, despite the azure sky above, it was a bone-chi

The fennec fox is the smallest fox in the world, with a body length that can be as little as 24cm. The canid’s range is North Africa, throughout the Sahara Desert, and east to the Sinai and Arabian Pe

Post-pandemic, Adam Weymouth retraced on foot the 1000-mile migration of a lone wolf across Europe, learning about our changing relationship to wildness, farming and migration itself along the way. Adam shares the prologue to this fascinating journey, alongside an introduction written especially for The Great Outdoors

Madikwe Game Reserve, located in the north of South Africa, on the border with Botswana, lies awake in the predawn. It is no longer night, but neither is it yet day, when the temperature will soar. It

I t’s 2am and Grandpa Boofhead is feeling frisky, his bellows echoing through the moonlit eucalyptus trees around my house in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. It’s early spring, the breeding seaso

The Yorkshire Terrier’s story begins in the smoky mill towns of nineteenth century Yorkshire, where Scottish labourers brought their small Terriers to help catch rats in mines and factories. From this