Colombia’s glaciers will soon be gone

January 25, 2012 Opinion and advice andes, carbon footprint, cocuy circuit, colombia, flora, frailejones, glacial erosion, global warming, mountain photography, paramo, ritacuba blanco, rock climbing, rwenzori mountains, weather, wildlife, wwf 0 Comment

Colombia’s glaciers will soon be gone

The photograph on the wall in the farmhouse at La Esperanza where we stayed the night had been taken 15 years ago, but it looked very different from the place we had walked through earlier in the day. I use

Yippee! Our forests are safe, for now

February 19, 2011 Good causes britain, consultation, forestry commission, forests, jonathon porritt, national trust, NGOs, old post, petitions, politics, public access, right to roam, rspb, save our forests, wildlife, woodland, woodland trust, wwf 0 Comment

Yippee! Our forests are safe, for now

Looking back at the Save Our Forests campaign Across the Middle East grassroots movements are toppling governments one after another like dominoes. Tunisia and Egypt are already down, and Libya and Yemen are next in line. Somewhat less momentously, but