Dear All Many greetings. I have been up in the hot and dusty reaches of Turkana in northern Kenya. Most people only hear about this region as a place of drought and suffering. Turkana is also a beautiful, biodiversity-rich and potentially productive place… I recently visited a pilot farming project in a remote area south … Read more
Dear All – thanks for the kind comments, especially from Brenton, Will, Barbara and Hannah. Here are some more insect pictures from the Kerio Valley – with the rains, the rivers and lakes are full again and there are lots of dragonflies about. Managed to snap these pictures of one dramatic Red Emperor on the … Read more
Dear All – thanks for the kind comments. The rains we have had in Kenya have meant that a lot of bees are out and about pollinating. On a recent visit to Mt Nyiru, I managed to photograph some very interesting bees visiting the flowers of a succulent tree euphorbia… Here are some of the … Read more
Life from death… As many of you will have read and heard on this site – there’s been a serious drought in Kenya and this has lead to lots of cattle dying. Out here on the plains we finally got some rain, and this means that there is a lot of green grass … Read more
Bees in the news Dear All – here are a couple of links that might be of interest. Bees have been in the news over the last couple of days. Newsweek has an article about the effect of bees disappearing on agriculture. Here is the link to it: http://www.newsweek.com/id/141461 And … Read more
Dear All – thanks for the kind comments – only just saw them! Will post a link to the BBC piece asap. On a separate note, today is Blog Action Day and the topic of focus is climate change. As I write this it is raining outside (unusual that its before 7 am) … Read more