Podcast with Tommy’s Outdoors

Photo by @djophoto_sauvage Talking with Tommy’s Outdoors about bears, wolves…


Camel Karma

Camel Karma by Ilse Köhler-RollefsonI bought Ilse Köhler-Rollefson’s…


Cannelle, the last truly Pyrenean bear, was killed by a hunter in 2003

Life and death in bear country

Take your pick. ‘Bear killed by hunter’. ‘Hunter mauled by bear’. If you were…


Making tracks: brown bears in France

Photo © Djo Djokkos Top predators are returning to France. At the start of the…


Isard near Ainsa

‘Trophy hunting’ by Nikolaj Bichel

Trophy hunting is only peripheral to my interests, so I thought I would skim…


Couflens

Press Release

New book: The Implausible Rewilding of the Pyrenees by Steve Cracknell An…


Tarasconnaise sheep in the Pyrenees

We, like sheep, have gone astray?

Essential reading for those interested in the impact of livestock on the…


A reminder of the need for the ‘Good Shepherd’, on the pulpit of the Santa Maria Assunta church outside Bominaco

Three wolves, three shepherds

Advocates of hard rewilding say that in Abruzzo wolves and sheep live happily…


Beavers know no borders

Reintroduced illegally on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, beavers have…


Sheep in fold on Mont Roig

The sheep that strayed

It’s hard for a shepherd when a bear pays a call. It isn’t a good time for me…