Conservation through education – sustainable & conscious living
My time away from active posting, engaging and, the worst, doom-scrolling, taught me some things. It taught me some valuable lessons but it also brought up a lot of questions and forced introspections, and those are the things I want to talk about with you.
Sometimes, I get really bloody fed up of creating content.
With my ongoing project exploring insects as a food source, for our health and the planet's, I've been doing a lot of research into current attitudes towards this food source in the Western world. Whilst it's amazing to see more conversation, more companies developing insect-based food items and slightly more understanding around the benefits, I…
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As part of my ongoing project exploring insects as a food source, for our health and the planet's, I got my family to try eating insects. Yes, everyone was slightly drunk. Yes, it was a very hectic production. And yes, it included someone knowing red wine up the white walls (not in the video!). But…
If you follow me on Instagram you most likely saw my post about how I'm feeling. I explained my thoughts about feeling exhausted and fed up with the world. Confused about my purpose and what I should be doing to help an ever-crumbling planet. Our planet. Questioning all of the things that I have been…
Continue reading ➞ Searching for purpose in an uncertain world
Can you believe it's been an entire YEAR since I wrote My Month Without Plastic? Me neither. But it has, and a lot has changed in a year. Arguably, plastic pollution is worse than ever and yet we are more conscious of it now than we ever have been. We’ve seen plenty of images of turtles with…
What’s the news? Do you remember driving 70mph down the motorway and having to activate your windscreen wipers every now and then with an added spray of screenwash...not due to anything other than trying to get those pesky insects off your windscreen? Now think back, can you remember the last time that you had to…
As I settled down to watch the new Netflix documentary ‘Chasing Coral’, the follow up to ‘Chasing Ice’ I was feeling a little apprehensive about what I would learn. I knew one thing for sure, I was very excited to see the acclaimed camera skills, stunning colours of the ocean, and fascinating sea creatures, but…
Continue reading ➞ What is plastic really doing to our oceans?
If you follow me on Instagram, chances are you would have seen my daily videos about my latest experience - watching and helping five beautiful caterpillars journey from their larval stages as tiny caterpillars to five beautiful, healthy butterflies which are key to our environment. The main idea behind this was that whilst the majority…
The end of June brought with it the end of this year’s Great British Bee Count. And what a tremendous count it was. It is increasingly becoming common knowledge that bees are in dire need of our help, as their rapid decline also hinders our own survival as a species. With an increased usage of…
An official decision was made today to ban all commercial fishing in Antarctica, and so creating the world's biggest marine reserve area. The area, which is more than six times the size of the UK, will protect 1.55 million square km of the Ross Sea, and has been hailed as a "milestone for conservation".…
With a heavy heart and tears in my eyes, I am very sad to say that Cites chose to ignore our pleas, as today's vote meant that it has been decided that elephants will unfortunately stay listed as Appendix II, like African lions, meaning that they will not receive the protection that they so desperately need.…
So what is wildlife conservation and how can we know if our money is going to the right place? With social media being at the forefront of most people's focus these days, it almost seems as if people are doing things with the sole initial intention of being able to upload the proof onto their social media…
Once again i find myself outraged but no more surprised at the carelessness of the human race causing the unnecessary end of a beautiful animal life. I am of course talking about this week's wildlife disaster that has set the internet on fire, and conservationists and animal lovers worldwide into turmoil, about the carelessness of the parents…
http://www.igobyplane.com/2015/06/19/where-can-i-pet-a-baby-lion-tiger-cheetah-big-cat/ I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that reading this article got my blood boiling to the highest degrees - so much so that I had to take a walk outside before angrily bashing the keys to write this post. Aside from the fact that this guy is illiterate, he is absolutely the…
It’s currently 16:31 and 32 degrees Celsius in the Timbavati, I haven’t spoken to a real human being in about seven hours, I’ve got a raging cold from being exposed to 20 hours non-stop air-con on my way here, mix all that with having been up and active since 4.45am, and I’m feeling pretty delirious.…
I've lost count of the amount of times that friends have sent me photos of people that I know involved in the terrible wildlife tourism trade that is in the media so much these days, and how many times that I have wanted to write ranting long comments on those social media photos, asking them…
Earlier this week I sat with my family to watch Davina McCall's new wildlife documentary 'Life at the Extreme'. Whilst the premiere received mixed reviews about Davina's capability of presenting a wildlife documentary, I thought it was good to see an 'ordinary' person immersing themselves in the wilds of Africa. Near the end of the…
The more time that I spend with Africa's elephants, the more I fall in love with them and the more that my admiration grows as I discover new things that make these creatures such beautiful souls that I feel connected with. And so I will be running 10km to raise money for the protection of…
After revealing the truth behind my lion selfie, I received a fantastic following of over 320,000 people from all around the world. I now want to take this opportunity to set a few things straight from my previous article, and give you more of an insight into my experiences undercover, and what you can do…
Just a quick review on a creative book that I found with a really unique take on writing. I absolutely love to write, but often I don't because I remember that every time I sit down to write I am met with, what is essentially, 'writers block'. This leads me to think that I am…
I can’t believe I’ve only got a week left here, it’s going SO QUICK!!! Again, SO much has happened I don’t know where to begin – I’ve been so busy immersing myself in absolutely everything that I can that I haven’t had time to post anything. However, an incredible amount to rave about as always,…
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