by Peter Knight | Jul 17, 2023 | Blog
You’ve checked off the big five in the Kruger, witnessed the sudden gush of Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone and marvelled at the migrating antelope in the Serengeti. Why bother with the South Downs National Park in England’s congested south? No...
by Peter Knight | Jun 25, 2023 | Blog
Wildfires favour non-indigenous species – but not always. In the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa there’s a patient native of the Fynbos. Its bulbs will wait in darkness, sometimes for many years, until bushfire jump-starts germination. Or more precisely it...
by Peter Knight | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog
My late mother, a schoolteacher in rural South Africa, always carried a large knife in the glove box. We called it the Alien Killer. Driving home from school with a bunch of sweaty kids and a supportive Staffordshire Terrier she would often stop suddenly and reach...
by Peter Knight | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog
An array of sunscreen brands in the discount pharmacy dazzles with its bright packaging sparkling under spotlights. Then everything goes black as the store’s lights fail. For a foreigner this is alarming, but not to locals. They continue shopping by phone...
by Peter Knight | Feb 21, 2023 | Blog
My friend Mike Dibb has been sorting through his past. We’d worked together, moons ago, on a TV series with John Berger, About Time, and now here we are in his kitchen, prising the rusted screws of a sturdy flower press he’d made for his children some 40 years before...
by Peter Knight | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
Industrial quantities of palm oil substitute are now being made in the lab. While this is certainly good news for Orangutans and their fast-vanishing forests, are faux products like oils and plant-based meats good for us and nature? What seems good now is often found...
