Sophie Yeo

Nov 13, 2024 | bbc.com | Sophie Yeo

How fences affect the world's wildlifeModern fences are often so thoroughly impenetrable, they can slice up already-scarce habitats and restrict wildlife to increasingly small scraps of land. What can be done to reduce their impact? The Białowieża Forest, which straddles Poland and Belarus, is one of the last remaining primaeval landscapes in lowland Europe.

Sep 30, 2024 | britishwildlife.com | Sophie Yeo

This is a challenging book to sum up in a few words. Partly that is down to the sheer breadth of coverage. We drift back and forth between the ancient history of life on earth, the impacts of humans on the land since our arrival, and places where ecological integrity persists despite everything. Perhaps, too, I was thrown by the sub-title.

Aug 9, 2024 | msn.com | Sophie Yeo

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Aug 9, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sophie Yeo

For centuries, peatlands have had a bad reputation. Possessing neither the majesty of the mountains nor the pastoral beauty of a meadow, they have been tarred as dangerous, ugly and useless. Travellers have long feared being swallowed into their murky depths: “If his foot slip … it is possible he may never more be heard of,” wrote the cleric William Gilpin in 1772, expressing a common sentiment at the time. But now the image of this ecosystem is finally on the mend.

Aug 6, 2024 | inkcapjournal.co.uk | Sophie Yeo

Around 11,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Holocene, hunter-gatherers occupied this lakeside camp. Today, that lake has vanished and not much is known about the inhabitants’ lives. But what little information we have only enhances its mystery. Most famous are the deer skull headdresses: were they used for ritual purposes, or something else? Then there is the environment: what must it have been like to live among such natural abundance?