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Wildlife
Javan Jungles inc Gunung Halimun and Ujung Kulon Indonesia
Though Java is the world’s most populous island, there are remote forest areas with wildlife including…
Hong Kong Black Kites
As high-rises crowd both sides of Victoria Harbour, there is little wildlife in the heart of…
Beidaihe Can Create Exciting Bird Reserve
[Based on speech I gave to audience inc leaders, at Beidaihe in May 2009] I first visited…
Conservation
Confessions of a crazy conservationist
I’m about to confess to long-term crazy behaviour on my part. And then, I will read…
No use captive breeding rare species if there is no habitat left for them
This past summer, a team of biologists scoured Siberian tundra in search of nests and eggs…
Wind farms and migratory birds
Issue of wind farms and actual or possible threats to migratory birds is of interest to…
Science
Perhaps Covid arose through lab leak of tweaked bat Coronavirus
When I first read of Covid originating near a lab conducting experiments with viruses, I thought…
The Covid Conundrum: Endless Lockdowns, Let It Rip … or What?
Over two years into the Covid pandemic, and with yet more anti-pandemic measures introduced by the…
Science shows Covid including Omicron is Really Not the Flu
Two years – and counting! – into the pandemic, there’s still too much nonsense re Covid…
Travel
Kenting – Laid-back Southernmost Taiwan; and Almost Polynesia on Lanyu
On a fine day, the Eluanbi Lighthouse is a peaceful place. A few tourists stroll into…
Seram and Haruku, South Maluku: The Islands Where Birds Colour the World
There are resorts that might be described as “Away from it all” when, truth be told,…
Danxia Shan – Far More than a Magnificent Rock Penis
Though China’s bullet train network is yet to reach Hong Kong [connected since I wrote this],…
