Sand storming!
RECENTLY I purchased a bag of cement and three bags of sand from my local building supplier’s yard only to…
Browsing: Nature Matters
The persecution of minority people
IT was 11 years ago that I started to contribute to this column, often writing articles on endangered or vulnerable…
From small seeds, great dipterocarp trees grow yet taller
WHAT in common have the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the Yellow Meranti dipterocarp tree at the Danum…
Seaside stingers in UK and Malaysian waters
MY parents, in the early 1960s, would often take my sister and myself, in summertime, to Whitesand Beach at Sennen…
An act of ecological vandalism
SEVENTEEN years ago, whilst aboard a ship sailing from the Seychelles to Madagascar, I spotted my first whale, an orca…
Threatened but not extinct – yet!
FORTUNATELY, I have been blessed in seeing two bird species that are now recorded on the International Union for Conservation…
The sheer mystical majesty of sea cliffs
AS a youth, living on the rugged granite peninsula of West Cornwall, in Southwest England, I would regularly cycle several…
Nature natters
FROM time to time, I like to update readers with the findings of researchers in the wider world. As the…