Looking for a unique camping experience this summer? Rent a lookout tower!

One for the bucket list for intrepid dark tourists has to be Roopkund Lake, otherwise known as Skeleton Lake in India. Situated in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, getting there is no easy task. Not only do you

Premier League club Nottingham Forest wanted to sign goalkeeper Jack Butland from Rangers in the January transfer window.

experimental Gorila style nature film, cameras were giving to forest rangers and addition footage from people involved with project, a collaboration with Daniel…

A glorious Male here. The late great Eric Hoskins who lost an eye to a irate Tawny owl studied these birds at large estate in Suffolk in the 30's . In those days these stunners had many local haunts throughout East Anglia. My Uncle knew of many sites throughout the Brecks when he served as Head ranger of Thetford forest, sadly these sites are mostly devoid of them now. As a child I remember them feeding on Beech mast at Santon Downham, and nesting on a private estate near Wangford, and Swaffham. Today the best places to see them in large numbers are Eastern Europe. In fact, now scarce in the UK as a breeding bird, they are still numerous in many countries.

The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

Born and raised in Zaanstad, the Netherlands, in a nature-loving family, Femke Hiemstra (1974) wanted to be a vet, then a forest ranger.

Between May 2021 and November 2022, more than 200,000 deforestation alerts covering a total of 2,700 hectares (6,670 acres) were recorded around Ouesso, the administrative seat of Sangha province, in the northwestern Republic of Congo, according to data from the online surveillance platform Global Forest Watch. Several observers say the tree cover loss is the […]

A touching story of how forest rangers hiked through a rainforest to locate a missing calf and reunite it with its mother. After the enormous exercise was a winning picture of the two.

English photographer Nicholas JR White traveled to Romania to photograph the valiant conservation efforts of the FCC in the Southern Carpathian Mountains; one of Europe’s...

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift were a back-to-nature youth movement in the 1920s that wanted to build a better world. Head back in time to their tribal training camp – a riot of hooded men, homemade handicrafts, ritual dances and animal spirit chiefs

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Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest.

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Virunga Park Rangers released a touching selfie recently, featuring two of the mountain gorillas who have spent their lives in the care of these selfless men. The photo shows two mature gorillas casually standing upright alongside their guardians on the edge of a forested area. While the image is comical, the story behind it is far more troubling. The animals live at the Senkwekwe Sanctuary within Virunga National Park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These gorillas ended up here after losing their families at the hands of poachers when they were only two and four months old, respectively. Wild gorillas don’t commonly stand upright, but Innocent Mburanumwe, deputy director of Virunga, told BBC Newsday they had copied the posture from their carers. “They are imitating the humans,” said Mr. Mburanumwe. “It doesn’t happen normally. I was very surprised to see it… so it’s very funny. It’s very curious to see how a gorilla can imitate a human and stand up.” Senkwekwe Sanctuary is the only center in the world looking after orphaned mountain gorillas. It is named after a gorgeous silverback male who was brutally murdered along with three other members of his family in 2007, making headlines worldwide. Only around 1000 mountain gorillas remain in the world, and one-third of them are in Virunga. Virunga is the oldest national park in Africa. It is the continent’s most biologically diverse protected area, but has long faced conflict, war, and violence due to its position on the border of the DRC. Roughly 600 park rangers protect the park and its inhabitants, which include elephants, hippos, lions, chimpanzees, mountain gorillas, and eastern lowland gorillas -- along with more than 700 bird species and a huge variety of reptiles, insects, and plants. But it’s a dangerous job. Every day, these brave men and women put their lives on the line. So far this year, two rangers have lost their lives, bringing the total number of ranger deaths in the park to 177.

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Born and raised in Zaanstad, the Netherlands, in a nature-loving family, Femke Hiemstra (1974) wanted to be a vet, then a forest ranger.