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Wildlife articles

Philippine Eagle conservation on Mindanao: bringing back Ol’ Blue Eyes

Philippine Eagle conservation on Mindanao: bringing back Ol’ Blue Eyes

Skidding through dark mud, I clutch a bamboo stem to pull myself up the faint trail,…

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Beidaihe autumn report – species accounts

Beidaihe autumn bird migration report (1986-1990): species systematically treated Table of Contents[Open][Close]Species systematically treatedBitterns, egrets and heronsSpoonbills,…

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Nature Conservation

Deep Bay wetland in Hong Kong – internationally important, especially for water birds

Deep Bay wetland in Hong Kong – internationally important, especially for water birds

Picture approaching Hong Kong from the southwest, roughly following the flight paths typical of spring migrants.…

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Science

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Goodbye dinosaurs, Hello birds

In autumn 1995, I spent several days in Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP),…

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So You Want to be a Cyborg?

 “The Internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to…

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Travel tales

ijen sulphur miners

Kawah Ijen sulphur mine on Java in Indonesia

It’s a little after 1.30am. Time for the earliest breakfast of my life: noodles and coffee,…

North Yorkshire inc Scarborough in winter

North Yorkshire inc Scarborough in winter

From a grassy vantage in Scarborough’s South Bay, I enjoy a grand view of the town…

More travel tales, including China and Indonesia