Rewilding. Fauna, farmers and flocks: can they live together?

Talk given at the Festival of Transhumance, in Santa Eulàlia de Puig-Oriol,…


Rewilding is about people

Context is king. To understand attitudes towards rewilding, it is not enough to…


Andorra, where the bear is female

The archetypal bear is male. When I first started investigating the cultural…


Bears in the bedroom

Cultural preconceptions about nature are important, especially where…


Making tracks: brown bears in France

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


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…


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…