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

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


goats in a corral

An extraordinary transhumance

Arriving in Santa Eulàlia de Puig-Oriol, the first thing I hear when I open the…


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…


Young lynx © L Terminet

Spotting the Lynx

Having disappeared from France during the 20th century, reintroduction in…


Silent Earth by Dave Goulson

Silent Earth by Dave Goulson, Vintage, 2021A very attractive cover…


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…