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16 February 2020

  • Hampstead’s ladies’ pond.

    Don’t fence in our fun, say wild swimmers

    Enthusiasts say red tape and enforced fees would spoil popular Hampstead ponds

16 January 2019

  • With supplement manufacturers making broad health claims, the market for mushrooms in the US is expected to grow by 50% in the next three years. Vitamin D might be one good reason to consume wild fungi.

    Mushroom magic: why the latest health fad might be on to something

    Mushrooms are increasingly touted as a magic cure-all. We took a look at the science behind the claims of immune support, stamina and longevity

9 May 2018

  • Debra Winger in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1990 film of The Sheltering Sky.

    Carys Davies’ top 10 wilderness books

    From Eric Newby’s bliss in the Hindu Kush to Paul Bowles’s Saharan horrors, the novelist shares her favourite visions of unfathomable territory

16 October 2017

  • A pair of puffins on the Treshnish Isles

    From white deer to loved-up puffins: 10 of the UK’s most stunning wildlife sights

    Images of salmon hurling themselves upriver, or a sea eagle diving for fish may be commonplace on TV documentaries, but it is possible to see such incredible sights for yourself, and in the UK

15 October 2017

  • A common kingfisher perched on a branch.

    Shocking blue: spotting kingfishers with the Essex Wildlife Trust

    The blue-and-orange birds can be a rare sight on the riverbank, unless you know where to look. Fingringhoe, near Colchester, it turns out, is the place to find the most majestic of winged creatures

14 October 2017

  • A roaring rutting stag chases hinds with his tongue out to detect if they are in season.

    A day with a deer stalker: on the trail of Scotland’s rutting stags

    One of nature’s greatest events, the annual deer rut sees stags roar and fight in a bid to mate with as many hinds as possible. Seeing it up close is a primal thrill

6 April 2017

  • A scene from the video of recently imported elephants from Zimbabwe, taken at Hanghzhou Safari Park in March.

    Secret footage obtained of the wild elephants sold into captivity in Chinese zoos

    Animal welfare advocates have filmed some of the wild elephants captured in Zimbabwe last year and shipped to China

10 October 2016

  • Fynbos Wild Flowers in Spring<br>epa05563535 Wild Fynbos flowers during a sunny spring day in the World Heritage Site Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa, 30 September 2016. Fynbos is Dutch for fine-leaved plants. Fynbos is a totally unique vegetation that makes up 80 per cent of the Cape Floral Kingdom and is found nowhere else on earth. Table Mountain alone hosts as many plant species as the entire United Kingdom with 1 500 species. The Western Cape is more botanically diverse than the richest tropical rainforest in South America according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF). EPA/NIC BOTHMA

    'I live with a tribe in Brazil': readers on ditching the corporate life for the wild

    Ever wanted to quit your job and go on an adventure or live off-grid? Meet the people who have done it

20 September 2016

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    Did you ditch your corporate job for life in the wild?

    Author Vanessa Runs has written about escaping the rat-race for life in a camper-van. Have you done something similar?

4 June 2016

  • Ben Fogle

    Ben Fogle: send bosses into the wild with a tent

    The adventurer is convinced that managers can transform their businesses by spending time camping out in the wilderness

27 May 2016

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    Why we need wildness in children's fiction

    From The Wild Things to Saki’s beast children to Peter Pan, Philip Womack on why he is, and always was, drawn to the wild side of children’s books
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