I never imagined when I set foot on the first rung of the hunting ladder that it would pervade my life to the extent that it has. It was Gray Thornton, President and CEO of the Wild Sheep Foundation, that first mentioned the six phases or steps that those of us amateurs who pursue our passion ...

It stalks you, then sneaks up on you. Suddenly, given the frequency, you start to notice that people around you are dying. OK, my parents died a long time ago ...

I thought I might look for another project, maybe another hunting documentary, when to my huge and embarrassed surprise, unannounced, a story popped unceremoniously into my head. It arrived gift wrapped, all but complete and all I had to do was write it down.

It started all those years ago with my wife, Jane’s, small and very basic point and press Olympus 35mm camera. No-one else had one so I took it on our first hunts together.

Over half the way through 2021! Seems even incarceration in your own home for months on end does not make the time pass any slower. Hunting the Hippotrages is still

Good afternoon everyone from a very chilly Henley-on-Thames, despite experiencing the hottest day in March for the previous 79 years just a few days ago, it was snowing as I

HUNTING THE HIPPOTRAGES – SUBSCRIBE HERE What has happened to this year? And what a year! About the only good thing which has come from it for me has been

It’s very unusual for me to produce two Newsletters so close to one another but one of my closest friends unexpectedly contracting inoperable, fourth stage, lung cancer has prompted me

A belated Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you have enjoyed a peaceful, restful and memorable festive season with family and friends. I know I have. I

I don’t think I have ever been this saddened and disheartened about hunting and conservation in South Africa. Last week someone WhatsApped me from Israel and asked, “Did you see

It is almost two years to the day that I hunted my last animal, a Lord Derby’s eland in Cameroon. Along with me admitting that, in my 70th year, this

The question is a perplexing one. Why, if hunters and animal rightists are both passionate about wildlife and wildlife habitat, are they seemingly always at loggerheads? This question, of course,