See Animals Wild

I just wanted to drop a personal note, to state that the blog has not been abandoned. We have just returned from a holiday in remote parts of Sweden and there will be a number of articles coming soon. Among other highlights we spent a night at the Bear hide and encountered a few wolves.

We are also working hard on starting to get up the first few nature reserves to allow this to become an encyclopaedia of such places. The intention is to have the ability to view and book as many reserves and wildlife related natural encounters as is possible, so to make wild travel in Africa and elsewhere simpler.

Assuming the website starts bringing in money in the near future, there are many plans about future travelling and other aspects of extending the website. However at the moment the majority of the travelling I do is with my family, and as such it should be noted that all encounters we had in Sweden had my daughter who is 5 and my son who is 3 in tow. They are interested in wildlife too and as such will this week, before they go back to school, be helping me put together some of the information from the reserve that we will be putting on this site in the near future.

Photo: Kris Krüg

I don’t expect to write many obituaries but could not allow this passing to not be mentioned. Alan Rabinowitz worked for a number of different zoology institutes and other conservation bodies. He was exceptionally good at conservation of big cats. His study of jaguars in Belize led to the creation of the Cookscombe nature reserve (he tells the fascinating story of this project in the book “Jaguar”; as with many of the books I have mentioned it is out print, though can be bought from Amazon second hand). Continue reading “Obituary of Alan Rabinowitz”

Ford European CEO Mark Armstrong mocked Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk as he stated that they were managing to make 7000 cars a week. He pointed out that Ford makes about 7000 cars every four hours.

Well this may be very impressive to build so many, it should be pointed out that Ford, a company that is over a century old, had to be pushed into starting to make electric cars by companies such as Tesla (less than a decade old),  and will not start releasing their electric models until the early 2020s. Continue reading “Ford mocked Tesla over 7000 cars made a week”

The British government has an odd habit of throwing new laws that have nothing to do with the case in point on to laws being written. In this case the British government, going against all scientific understanding, have stated that all non human mammals have no emotions or feelings, including the ability to feel pain. In this case it has more to do with the bill being discussed than one would think, it is in line with the Brexit withdrawal bill as the move is to strip the phrase ‘sentient beings’ from European Animal Rights laws that are transferred from European to British law books. Continue reading “Animals can’t feel pain apparently – according to the Tories”