Tag Archives: Wild Wonders of Europe

Meet Your Neighbours in Austria – and a little how-to. NB

Posted on September 13, 2011 by niallbenvie

Here is the penultimate panel in the series of 6 “Biodiversity begins at home” panels for Meet Your Neighbours . Following a response to an earlier post, I should point out that I don’t spend hours carefully cutting out the … Continue reading →

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Meet your Neighbours in the south east of France. NB

Posted on September 6, 2011 by niallbenvie

Here I’ve used work mostly shot on assignment for Wild Wonders of Europe (and under contract until December 2012!) in the French Alps a couple of years ago.  This panel will find its way into Meet Your Neighbours when the … Continue reading →

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Wild Wonders of Europe book. NB.

Posted on June 23, 2010 by niallbenvie

I was pleased to take delivery last week of the flagship Wild Wonders of Europe book, something that was a very remote dream on the day in October 2005 when Staffan (Widstrand) and I took a day trip in the … Continue reading →

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Wild Wonders of Europe blog. NB.

Posted on December 21, 2009 by niallbenvie

In case you missed it on this blog earlier this year, Wild Wonders of Europe has put up the story I wrote about my trip to Andalucia in April in search of  common chameleons. Thanks Florian! Not long now before … Continue reading →

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Glen Esk. 2005.

Posted on August 10, 2009 by niallbenvie

The popular view of wild Scotland is of heather (Calluna vulgaris) covered hillsides stretching away to the horizon. Photogenic as it may be, natural it is not: heather is normally an understory shrub in woodland rather than a monoculture and … Continue reading →

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France – for Wild Wonders of Europe. 5 (final).

Posted on July 21, 2009 by niallbenvie

1st June During a couple of previous visits to the fort that lies above Mont Dauphin Gare and Guillestre I had seen a few of the marmots that live on the slopes beneath it. This was at a much lower … Continue reading →

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France – for Wild Wonders of Europe. 4.

Posted on July 19, 2009 by niallbenvie

30th May. I met Joël at 0515 and we headed south on the picturesque, if convoluted, D900 to Dignes les Baines, in the heart of France’s fossil country. He had arranged the previous day with the Director for us to … Continue reading →

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France – for Wild Wonders of Europe. 3.

Posted on July 15, 2009 by niallbenvie

28th May Just after breakfast, Robert (by this time I had been encouraged to use “Bob” and “tu”) showed me a site for henbane, a fantastically poisonous member of the nightshade family that grows on a roadside above Guillestre. Although … Continue reading →

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France – for Wild Wonders of Europe. 2.

Posted on July 13, 2009 by niallbenvie

27th May 0430. I‘m sure that Robert arranged the 0600 rendez-vous to test my mettle. Then again it might have something to do with the coolness of early morning being better for working the moths outdoors. Either way I was … Continue reading →

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France – for Wild Wonders of Europe. 1.

Posted on July 11, 2009 by niallbenvie

Foreword: So many of the interesting opportunities I am given come about by pure chance. At the 2008 photography fair at Montier-en-Der, Wild Wonders of Europe director, Staffan Widstrand, was approached by Michel Blanchet, chief scientist at the Queyras Natural … Continue reading →

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