It has been an exciting 15 months in Latin America, filled with stories of challenging mountain ascents and new botanical discoveries. My PhD study is focused on trying to derive the potential natural vegetation of the Andean high altitude grasslands known as ‘puna’ which have been burnt and grazed consecutively...

In 2003, at the World Parks Congress, the president of Madagascar agreed to triple the amount of protected areas on this island in the Indian Ocean. This ambitious goal was fulfilled within the following five years and Madagascar has now many new protected areas, such as the protected landscape of...

  Ice surface meltwater ponding on Leverett Glacier, southwest Greenland.   The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), the second largest body of global land-based ice, is losing ice mass as air temperatures in the Arctic rise. This mass loss is caused by ice surface melting, the breaking-off of icebergs from glaciers...

Non-human primates are highly intelligent, predominately social animals, and it is believed that there is a strong connection between this intelligence and the requirements of living within a society. The need to maintain knowledge of not only an individual’s own relationships with other group members, but also the relationships between...