Tales of Nature and Photography by Piotr Naskrecki
Crickets are some of the oldest and best studied singers of the animal world. Their ancestors were probably some of the first animals to break the silence of the dry land in the Permian and the Triassic (acoustic communication underwater had probably appeared long before that, albeit fossil evidence for that is scant.) The ubiquity... Read More
The dilapidated remnants of Chironde, an old hunting camp near the town of Inhamitanga in Mozambique, don’t make for a particularly enticing location for visitors and most of the year the camp sits empty, looked after by a lone guard whose most exciting part of the day used to be cooking a pot of rice... Read More
In June 2006 I was in Ghana with a group of conservation biologists to gather data and arguments for the creation of a new national park around the spectacular and highly threatened Atewa Forest Reserve, a lofty goal that, alas, has still not been reached. Sweeping my insect net through the lush vegetation, I knocked down... Read More
When the fuel line under a car breaks and starts spewing a highly flammable liquid, the chances of something good coming out of such a situation are usually slim. And so I was not looking forward to having to crawl under my Landcruiser to try to fix the leak after the car had stalled again.... Read More