The dark Canada of endless pines, lakes and mountains, was gone, writes Damien Enright.

A walker reading one of my pocket-book West Cork walking guides contacted me to say that, although she had walked a saltmarsh behind Garafeen Strand near Kilbrittain for 10 years, she had never seen the skylarks I mentioned in my book. 

Damien Enright visited an EFDA project in Ethiopia, and saw it was doing genuine good work

Laying their eggs from March to June, cock stonechats will be threatened by the Heritage Bill 2016 allowing upland burning in march, writes Damien Enright.

Flatulence is just as common in marine mammals as in humans and terrestrial animals, writes Damien Enright

In folk myth, wild arums are connected with bawdiness, writes Damien Enright.

To have come home for these spring days is as great a joy for us, writes Damien Enright

Back at home again, we are enjoying west Cork as much as we have ever enjoyed anywhere, probably more so because, although we regularly roam, it is here that we have settled, writes Damien Enright.

Damien Enright gives us a run down of his latest adventures in Namibia.

Thundering along the roads of Etosha National Game Reserve in northern Namibia in our rented camper van, we mow down plains tigers in their dozens, like it or not.