How to… have a holiday with a difference
Did you know that some seemingly benign activities such as whale-watching, scuba-diving, or taking an elephant-back safari can have a harmful effect on wildlife?
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From the Galapagos Islands to the wilds of Scotland, through Darwin and Lyell, and from spotting rare birds to endangered animals or identifying plants, explore the natural world with us...
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Top 20 animals to see in the wild
Here are our top 10 favourite animals in the world, and where you can go for guaranteed sightings of them, plus 10 you can see nearer to home...
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Southern Namibia was like the Switzerland of Africa, with only two people per square mile, a pristine environment and a first world infrastructure.
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Destination focus: Pembrokeshire Coast
I will never forget looking across to Ramsey Island as the sun was setting and watching a school of dolphins breaking the surface every few seconds.
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Darwin went on to become one of the most important figures in our history, changing forever the face of science. But who was the man behind the marvel?
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A look at Charles Lyell, whose Principles of Geology laid the foundations of the modern science of geology and greatly influenced Darwin.
Read moreWe've been there... Canada - Northwest
I first came to Canada to paddle down the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories. We flew into our starting point, just south of the Arctic Circle, in a DeHavilland Single Otter sea-plane. Landing at Moose Ponds was almost the end of the trip, however, as the pilot nearly ran out of lake...
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It’s quite extraordinary how the Wild has suddenly leaped up into the foreground of everyone’s imagination. In the 1970s, when I started exploring Britain and Ireland on foot in order to write about obscure, overlooked byways and disregarded corners, I was thought of as a bit of an oddball...
Read moreFor all our sakes we need more children falling off branches, getting lost in forests and getting stuck inside trees. The message is simple; it is more risky not to go into the woods. It is dangerous for not only the health of the individual but the world...
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