Month: September 2020

Wainwright Prize 2020

by julianhoffman, posted in Conservation, Nature, Writing

Enormous congratulations to Dara McAnulty for winning the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing this week with his book Diary of a Young Naturalist and to Benedict Macdonald for winning the Global Conservation Prize with Rebirding. I'm deeply honoured and delighted that Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save our Wild Places was Highly Commended for the … Continue reading Wainwright Prize 2020

A Bear Unearthed

by julianhoffman, posted in Balkans, Conservation, Mammals, Nature, Photography

In April 2012, a brown bear was found illegally killed by poisoned bait just outside the village of Psaradhes here in Prespa. As the animal was far too heavy to move, and the mountain soil too rocky to dig a grave, the bear was instead covered with a plastic tarp and mounded over with stones. … Continue reading A Bear Unearthed