The Brock Initiative

If you were scanning the listings in TV Guide, as I do every week, you’d find a channel called National Geographic Wild. Yes, that...

Once upon a time, long ago, there was a youthful person called David Attenborough (no “Sir” then). He could be found on the sixth...

Typical, commercial wildlife TV programmes relentlessly tell us about "Deadly Killers of the Amazon" or "shark fury, ruthless predators" (Nat Geo, etc).  Yes, they...

“Planet Crunch" One year in the Life (or Death) of a Planet. Ours. The only one we’ve got. The Earth. In the autumn of 2019 a...

Whilst I appreciate Lucy Cooke's concern for the pygmy three-toed sloth (Viewpoint, December 2019 issue), it is surely a mistake to name, exactly, it's...

As with soya and cattle from the burned Amazon rainforest the question is: “Where does this stuff go?”…The same applies to hardwood timber. Are other...

At 9pm on Monday, 7th October, BBC 2 showed a one hour programme called “What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day”, which featured...

October 13th 2019 was actually a very unlucky day for Japan. Some say they deserve it. Typhoon Hagibis came in and smashed the country....

There I was, walking across the doughnut – (yes) shaped BBC Television Centre at Shepherds Bush, London.  I was carrying a basic plastic shopping...