Simon Barnes is perplexed by the elusive but over-the-top Crested Argus. There are a lot of pretty funky beasts out there, and mostly we are perfectly able to accept them. After all, life’s like that. Nature will come up with some pretty crazy ideas every so often, and that’s fine. And then another...
Simon Barnes recalls an encounter with a Red-shanked Douc during his visit to Vietnam. Our brains are trained to read faces: so much so that we see meaningful faces in clouds, in cracks on the ceiling and in the folds of the curtain at night. So obviously we are going to read human expressions on...
As Scorched Earth to Forest Haven looks to raise £575,000 to support the replanting of Vietnam’s lost forests, we look at some of the tree species that will be used to regreen this extraordinary landscape. Sitting within the Indo-Burma hotspot, Vietnam is of international conservation importance...
