Placeholder — replace: light through the understoreyThe Journal
Field notes & travel craft
Wildlife, photography, ecology and the practicalities of getting deep into Borneo's oldest forest.
Placeholder — replace: hornbill pair at duskPhotographing all eight of Borneo's hornbills
Focal lengths, flight paths and walkway positions that put you at eye level with the birds.
Placeholder — replace: orangutan and infant in a fig treeWhen to see wild orangutans in Danum Valley
Fruiting seasons, morning routines and why the valley beats any rehabilitation centre for a wild sighting.
Placeholder — replace: rainforest kit flat-layWhat to pack for the world's oldest rainforest
Leech socks, dry bags and the one thing every visitor forgets — a practical list from the guides.
Placeholder — replace: dipterocarp seedling in the nurseryHow INFAPRO replants a rainforest
Thirty years, twelve thousand hectares: inside the project putting the Ulu Segama forest back.
Placeholder — replace: sea of cloud from Bukit AturBukit Atur before sunrise: a birder's hour-by-hour
The 4.45 am alarm that pays for itself — what to listen for as the cloud sea breaks up.
Placeholder — replace: long lens in a forest hideRainforest camera care: humidity, rain and mud
Dry cabinets to silica maths — keeping glass working at 95% humidity.
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