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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 quixotic mission that has spanned nearly two decades: to find any sign of Maxwell’s smooth-coated ot...

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 shoreline. Eilean Bàn is the former home of author Gavin Maxwell and, as such, there is a museum ded...

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 International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF) 27 years ago and, together with their education officer son Ben, 31...

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 of the Otter: a book filled with astonishingly intimate images of the creatures at rest, at play and...