I wake to the sound of rain. Palm fronds brush against my window pane as the sweet, dewey dawn breeze breathes new life into my still slumbering room. I slowly come to my senses: savoring first the scents of the jungle. Citronella, trod and moistened by precipitation; hibiscus, blooming into sugary perfume; earth, fertile and…
It’s five in the morning and you’re already dripping with sweat. Although the sun is still to make an appearance, you’ve been clambering up this muddy slope for a while now and your leg muscles are burning. But this doesn’t matter. You’re making your way towards one of the most awe-inspiring sights on Earth, and…
‘What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another’ – Mahatma Gandhi The haunting early morning call of the white-handed gibbon serves as our morning alarm alongside the occasional cry of the Great Argus pheasant in the distance. Hornbills glide…
Picture yourself lying in the dirt at 2am in the middle of Uganda, facing an unknown animal’s burrow. A colleague is accompanying you for safety… the sound of his heavy snoring 15m away fills you with confidence. You look up through the dense treeline at stars dancing across the milky-way. Your camera traps revealed leopards…
It’s already been three years since I first arrived to Suaq Balimbing. I spent six months there, following orangutans through the swamp rainforest for science. From dawn to dusk, chased by mosquitoes, constantly falling into invisible holes and disappearing waist deep into the swamp. But also joking with the lovely local assistants, having biscuits and…
The water trembles at the wriggle of my toes, sending a gentle ripple trundling outwards from the edge of my foot until it touches the invisible corners of the infinity pool and makes its escape by spilling over the edge. A slosh, as the water hits the hidden overflow channel and I look up from…