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Wildlife Volunteering in the Caribbean

A nesting sea turtle

Jade Whynne… Managing Director with V2 Volunteer & Vacation… introduces some of the benefits of volunteering on conservation projects abroad, looking specifically at some of the V2 conservation projects in the Caribbean. Beyond the view of the sandy beach and turquoise water that most of the millions of visitors that….

Yellowstone: like no other place on earth

Grizzly at Yellowstone National Park

Ireland’s Wildlife contributor Daniel Lettice shares his recent experience visiting the USA’s most famous wilderness… The fulfilment of a long held ambition to visit Yellowstone National Park began on October 18th when we arrived in Gardiner, Montana, close to Yellowstone’s north entrance. The previous three weeks had been spent biting….

Orang-utan: going… going… almost gone!

Orang-utan conservation

This is a feature about the conservation of the orang-utan that I originally wrote for “Wild Ireland” magazine back in 2003. Ten years on and the great red ape is still hanging on, barely. We stopped and stared. Ninety kilos of muscle, sinew and dense orange fur stared back. With….