STINGRAYS have a fearsome reputation, especially after the death of Steve Irwin, so jumping into waist-deep water with dozens of these giant fish writhing around your ankles might seem like madness. But at Stingray City in…
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CHRIS Packham was his jovial, hypercritical self when presenting the British Wildlife Photography Awards at the Mall Gallery in London. Although he did say that he felt this years’ competition was of a much better quality…
SERIOUS wildlife photographers had every right to claim fowl-play after a newcomer from Suffolk scooped top prize at a star-studded London awards night. Lee Acaster, pronounced the overall winner of the British Wildlife Photography Awards…
I had always taken pride in my eagle-eyed vision and being first to spot wildlife in the field. So, when it began to deteriorate I muddled through with glasses and contact lenses, but it wasn’t the…
Sometimes my experience working on the city desk at the Express will infiltrate this predominantly wildlife-based site, but this is a personal-finance story I just have to tell to a wider audience. For the second…
At last I have got round to doing something with my pictures from an amazing trip to Gambia, the Smiling Coast of Africa, in December 2010. And it lived up to its name. But is…
Humans could be at risk of a killer virus that has claimed the lives of thousands of marine animals in northern Peru, experts have warned. Since the beginning of the year, at least 2,800 of…
THOUSANDS of dolphins have washed up dead on Peru’s beaches this year in what could be the world’s largest reported mass dolphin die-off. The body count could be as high as 2,800 based on volunteer’s…