In early days, the world was viewed as a smorgasbord of food and building resources. Everything man saw was his for the taking. Animals were food, trees were only steps away from being houses and the ground was laden with precious metals. Collecting and naming new species of birds was arguably the first transition from […]
Passionate about saving Earth’s tropical rainforests, I packed my bags and flew to the Leuser Ecosystem in North Sumatra, Indonesia, the last place on earth where you can find tigers, rhinos, elephants and orangutans all in the same location. Flying over the country, I was shocked at how all the horrible images I had seen […]
Tell me a story is a phrase that has been passed down from my mother to me. We yearn for that tale of life lesson inspiring adventure, however we never get much of that from whomever we ask. It was not until I moved out of home and settled down with my partner that I […]
At the end of the book “The birds at my table”, the author Darryl Jones mentions a phenomenon called the “extinction of experience.” The extinction of experience can be summarised by the loss of immersing yourself in nature, be it with wildlife watching, making mud pies or building tree forts, in this era of the […]
Self grooming for most people is a daily ritual. Freshly shampoo’d hair, freshly shaved legs and clean feet is usually nothing to harp on about, or even rejoice in. For whatever reason, however, during my time spent living in remote locations whether it be on a sandy island surrounded by mangroves, or in the middle […]
