Post-Recce Report
Between the 7th and the 18th of this month I was in Oman with Soo Redshaw (Chief Leader) organising logistics, equipment and touching base with numerous useful contacts for the […]
Category Archives: Research
A Recce to Oman
Despite what I said several weeks ago about remaining on British soil and focusing on the conservation of British wildlife, here I am packing my rucksack for a 10 day […]
The Little Things in Life
One can spend days on expedition hoping to see a rare bird species or searching for that elusive mammal only to get a brief glimpse before it flies, hops or […]
Planetary Boundaries
There were a number of papers I came across during my degree that have stuck in my head ever since, either because they were fascinating, or because they were a […]
“British nature – I owe you one”
Its been 6 months since I returned from the baking heat of Oman’s Empty Quarter, and over four years since my first expedition to Madagascar, but it’s now the time for me […]
Funky Flora
Plants are vital to all life on earth. Indeed, they paved the way for animals to exist by filling the air with oxygen, albeit as algae in the seas, and […]
A Typical Day aboard the Lobo de Rio
“Beep beep beep beep beep” wakes me up. I roll over, its 5 in the morning. That was the painfully loud alarm clock from the macaw team’s room as they […]
The Giant Helicopter Damselfly of the Amazon
Calling their flight graceful would be inaccurate, but slowly bobbing through the humid understory, there was something transfixing about their movement, their body bouncing out-of-sync with their brightly coloured wing […]
Why Dragonflies?
After explaining what I have been getting up to over the last few years, people will often ask me “why dragonflies?”. In all honesty, I love hearing this question because […]
Radio Tracking for Conservation
Macroecology is the study of large-scale patterns and processes in biodiversity around the globe. One of the key aims in macroecology is to explain the processes that give rise to […]
Lawrence Ball │ Conservation Science 