May 30, 2018
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The European brown bear has an incredible refuge in Europe. I went to search for them in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains in October 2017. Romania has somewhere in the region of 5-6,000 wild brown bears, having recovered from around 1,000 individuals in the early 20th century. The reason that Romania is The Bear capital of Europe (well,…
March 9, 2018
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Who knew we had flamingos in Europe, and that they’re just a quick and easy flight away!? To get over our December blues, a few friends and I decided to seek out some winter sun. A quick trawl of flights revealed that Majorca was a cheap and easy getaway and in an impulsive flash –…
February 15, 2018
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Extinction fascinates me. Since I was a kid, the idea that when walking across the New Forest I was walking the same land that had once been trodden by cave bears and mammoths was very exciting. And when I learnt that the UK did actually have species like the wolf until just a dozen generations…