All posts tagged middle east

As part of our 'Talking Naturally Partners Project' - through which we aim to inspire and promote conservation by hosting news/appeals/interviews/podcasts etc with our 'partnering' conservation organisations

Talking Naturally is expanding and developing some exciting, new ideas. One of the areas that we are particularly excited about is working with 'partners' [see About TN

We wrote a few times last year about the pressure Houbara Bustards Chlamydotis undulata undulata face from over-privileged, fantastically-wealthy Arab 'leaders' who - having wiped out the Houbara

This is a news story from last month but follows on neatly from the two blogs I just wrote about wealthy Arabs hunting Houbaras to extinction and shows

Yesterday I posted a rather bitter comment on the 'sale' of licences to rich Arab leaders to hunt Houbara Bustards in Pakistan ('Arabian money buying the extinction

In the twenty-first century there is an awful correlation between wealth/influence and the ability to murder wildlife on truly industrial scales. Whether it's an increasingly affluent middle class

Following on from yesterday's post about the awful tormenting of a captured Arabian Leopard in Yemen (/yemen-leopard-captured-tormented-video/), David Stanton, the Yemeni-based Executive Director of the Foundation for

In September this year I interviewed David Stanton, Executive Director of the 'Foundation for the Protection of the Arabian Leopard in Yemen'. An erudite and passionate

The one with guest journalist and author Stuart 'The Birdman' Winter where we talk about the after-effects of Hurricane Katia, Nick's self-found Pallid Harrier, a 'good' gamekeeper near