Driving up to the Dengchigou Catholic Mission was a little like driving back in time. As my driver Yong Deng – a very cheerful trilingual Tibetan gentleman with an impossibly soft and husky voice – turned the steering wheel of
The first panda cam
Here’s a question: what was the first panda cam? This phenomenon has become a remarkably popular, must-have feature of zoos with pandas. It is, after all, a negligible expense compared with the amount that Western zoos are prepared to pay
More on ornithologist cliques
In thinking about the origins of the World Wildlife Fund in 1961, I pondered whether there was something to be said about the ornithological background of most of the founding members of the charity. On an excellent website dedicated to