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…


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…