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CHIBAISH, Iraq (AP) — “Don’t move a muscle.” His command cut across the reeds...

May 28, 2021 Share CHIBAISH, Iraq — “Don’t move a muscle.” His command cut across the reeds rustling in the wind. On a moonlit embankment several kilometers from shore in Iraq’s celebrated southern marshes, everyone stood still. Omar al-Sheikhly shined a flashlight across a muddy patch. “Nothing,” he said, shaking his head. His team of five exhaled in unison. The environmentalist spearheaded this midnight expedition through the marshes of Chibaish. It is the latest in a qu...

Best UK photography locations (where you can still avoid the crowds) May 25, 2021 With travel abroad still looking uncertain this year, top landscape pros compile a new bucket list of great locations in Britain that avoids the obvious honeypots and camera-wielding staycation crowds Scotland Eilean Bàn (White Island) This six-acre island (situated between the Isle of Skye and mainland Scotland) is a haven for wildlife with otters, seals, cormorants, shags and herons regularly sighted from its s...

Our ring of bright hope: From Skye to Africa, Scots on a mission to protect the world’s endangered otters © Shutterstock / Yann C Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A charity has revealed its vital work leading an international rescue bid to save endangered otters in Scotland and around the world. Paul Yoxon and his wife Grace, both 64, set up the Internat...

Andy Howard Susan Flockhart Andy Howard rarely talks to otters. His success in photographing these notoriously shy creatures lies partly in his ability to blend silently into the seascape, becoming indistinguishable from a rock or clump of weed. Yet on a subliminal level, Howard appears to speak the animals’ language. “You have to think like an otter to succeed in photographing or spending time with them,” he says. The Highlands-based naturalist has just published The Secret Life ...

© Supplied by Courier artist The day after tomorrow is Earth Day. Part of me thinks that an annual day-long event that embraces all the continents is a remarkable thing. The other part of me thinks that every day should be Earth Day. The theme of Earth Day 2021 is Restore the Earth. What does that mean? Permit me to call your attention to two newspaper stories from the past week, one from a London national and the other one from this very newspaper. © Shutterstock / non c Planet Earth with su...

Parramatta Park is World Heritage-listed for its various convict-built cottages and other buildings and importance to early Australian settlement history. Old Government House, county home of the first 10 governors of NSW, is Australias oldest remaining public building and houses a top collection of colonial furniture. 3. … and Australias oldest intact European building Elizabeth Farm in Rosehill was built in 1793 and is now surrounded by a recreated 1830s garden. John and Elizabeth Macarthur...

The grounds of a stately mansion in a beautiful but remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, and a tall, genial young man with a moustache and the tattoo of a fish on his left arm — he’s nicknamed ‘Fish’ for John Fisher — is creeping through the dark. In his hand is a double-bladed dagger, designed for silent killing: a sharp thrust to the throat and the victim slumps dead in a pool of blood. He is a master of close, unarmed combat and fieldcraft — how to stalk an enemy unseen and h...

Scotland-based rental firm adds multiple MG6000SSY sets, bringing its MHM generator fleet to over 90 machines

From cheeky chimps to porcupine Houdinis… the wild history of Aberdeen Zoo is revealed 15/12/2020, 5:30 pm It’s not every day you come home and find a chimpanzee sitting in your armchair eating cake and chocolate biscuits after ransacking your larder… but then it’s not everyone who grew up with Aberdeen Zoo in their backyard. The story of Humphrey, the greedy chimp, is just one of many exceptional memories Robert Leslie has of his teenage years when his father, George, was manager of t...