10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

Elephants 194

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 194

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

“I am covered in bug bites, my legs are killing me and I got sick and threw up from the altitude,” Ryan Terrill, 26, a member of the winning American team, the LSU Tigrisomas, commented. We maybe forfeited our chances of winning because of that fantastic hour spent watching the Spectacled bear and its cub.

Peru 237

Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 237

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Maharashtra, February 2013. There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008. The Telia Lake.

Tigers 252

Tigers India Killing 2012 252