Standing up for Nature
I photographed this male Jaguar (known as Geoff) a few seconds after he had made an unsuccessful attempt to catch a large Caiman. He pounced and disappeared under the water but emerged only with a mouthful of Water Hyacinth. I photographed him in Brazil’s Pantanal region. Taken with Nikon D500 Nikkor 300mm f4 lens f4…
“Something I did for @sharkstrustuk recently, sharks get a really bad press and I think it is probably Steven Spielberg’s fault”
Keith Betton is, amongst other things, a mate of mine and the co-author of Behind the Binoculars, in whose pages you can find out more about him. At the moment he is in Senegal birding but he left this blog before he left. SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT THE LACK OF YOUNG BIRDERS?…
Chris Packham’s e-petition for a moratorium on shooting declining waders has more than a month to run and is poised to pass the signature total of the e-petition in favour of grouse shooting (which closed yesterday with 25,322 signatures) any time now. Please sign here.
Bob writes: I have a life long passion for the outdoors through rock climbing and fell running. A cancer scare in my thirties made me appreciate many things I simply hadn’t noticed before, from the smallest plants to the gap in the sky from a missing raptor. It’s all worth fighting for and that’s what…