What Lies Beneath
At first, I thought I’d imagined it. Not a full shape. Just something slightly off in the water. Then it moved. We were standing just off Aquarium Beach at Four Seasons Resort Seychelles Desroches Island, fins half on, the sea flat before the light started to drop. Nasreen Khan, the resort’s conservationist and marine biologist, […]
Mindahi Bastida: the One Who Comes with the Wind
From a blazing fire pit at Highgrove to global climate summits, Indigenous leader Mindahi Bastida is urging the world to listen again to the Earth. It is a glorious sunny July day in the gardens at Highgrove, King Charles’ grand estate in Gloucestershire. The monarch is one of a ring of people encircling a blazing […]
Julie Church: A Life in Love with the Ocean
Courageous, entrepreneurial and quietly formidable, Julie Church has spent three decades working to protect the marine life of the Western Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea to South Africa. As founder and CEO of Seas4Life, she now translates that commitment into carefully designed sea safaris: journeys that place guests in direct contact with the ocean […]
From Fear to Fascination
When Jaws was released half a century ago, it instantly sank its teeth into our consciousness – and has never loosened its grip. Steven Spielberg’s gripping masterpiece follows three mismatched men – aquaphobic Chief Brody (Roy Scheider), passionate ichthyologist Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and salty shark fisherman Quint (Robert Shaw) – hunting the great white terrorising a New […]
Ocean with Sir David Attenborough
Ocean, Sir David Attenborough’s latest documentary, exposes the curse of modern-day industrial fishing: bottom trawling. Sir David cannot contain his anger. This highly destructive practice is laying waste to marine life all over the globe. It involves gigantic trawlers pulling a massive metal beam across the ocean floor and driving all the creatures it throws […]
IUCN RED LIST OF THREATENED SPECIES
Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides a vital service to us all. It is the world’s most far-reaching information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species, watching over them with the care of a doting parent. It has an enormous and beneficial […]
Birdwatching in St Lucia
A few months ago I went birdwatching to St Lucia in search of the elusive Jacquot, the island’s national bird, and learnt about biodiversity, endangered species and the power of environmental activism. My wife and I are nearing the end of an eight-hour hike up a vertiginous mountain trail. We are in the heart of […]
Nature, wildlife and climate change
The collective actions of animals over millions of years have shaped the planet’s climate to make it habitable for all. Our addiction to fossil fuels has become a smoke screen for this facet of reality. It’s true that humans are the major cause of climate change. However, the solutions aren’t simply about humans engineering new […]
Everland and the Alto Mayo REDD+ Project
In 2019, I visited northern Peru to travel to an area of rainforest that had, at one time, seemed destined to disappear. I was part of a team supporting a successful conservation project in the Amazon, known as the Alto Mayo REDD+ Project, set up in 2008 by Conservation International and Peru’s National Parks Agency. […]
Second Lives
As we are seeing such severe changes in climates across the globe, it is time for us to question our consumer and shopping habits. We should look for brands that are creative, sustainable and committed to be positive agents of change in what concerns the future of our planet. Circularity, commonly known as a lifecycle […]
