The red squirrel
IcWhat would our forests and parks be without the acrobatics of this playful rodent perfectly at ease at the end of the smallest branches and even in the air? Everyone…
L’Écureuil roux
Que seraient nos forêts et nos parcs sans les acrobaties de ce rongeur espiègle parfaitement à l’aise au bout des plus petites branches et même dans les airs ? Tout le…
Gulls (France)
In French, we use two different names for gulls: mouette for the Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) and goéland for most other gulls like the European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) or…
Pendjari (Benin)
On the edge of Benin, in the far north-west, the Pendjari National Park is separated from Burkina Faso only by the river of the same name. In the Sudano-Sahelian savannah,…
Iceland’s ice lagoons
Iceland is a land of fire and ice on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that offers barren landscapes of raw beauty, enlivened in summer by all the birds that come to breed.…
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LIGHT FROM NATURE Impressions of a Traveling Naturalist As a child, I discovered, amazed, tadpoles teeming at the edge of the pond, crayfish in the shallow waters of the river,…