Geographical

Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

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Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler is a journalist and photographer specialising in conservation, the environment and hiking.

He spends a great deal of time travelling in the Himalaya, East Africa and southwest Europe. He has worked with some of the world’s biggest media groups, and has contributed to over a hundred travel guidebooks for Lonely Planet and Rough Guide as well as a number of specialist hiking and wildlife-watching guide books.

Stuart also works with the UN award-winning Nashulai Maasai Conservancy (nashulai.com) and Nashulai Journeys in Kenya.

Stuart lives with his family at the foot of the Pyrenees in southwest France.

Indochinese tiger

Indochinese tiger population increases

Aug 6, 2024
A new study reveals that Thailand's population of endangered Indochinese tigers is increasing at a steady pace.
Ladakh

Frozen desert too hot for aeroplanes to take-off

Aug 1, 2024
Alarm in the 'frozen desert' of Ladakh where a heat wave is making it too hot for aeroplanes to land or take-off.
CGI image electric car

Wildlife threatened by mining for clean energy minerals

Jul 31, 2024
A new study reveals that thousands of invertebrate species are threatened by mining for clean energy minerals.
World Nomad Games

World Nomad Games 2024 – an Olympic Games alternative

Jul 30, 2024
If the classic Olympic sports send you to sleep then get your thrills watching horseback wrestling at the 2024 World Nomad Games.
Rainy day at the beach

Is the British summer to blame for wildlife woes?

Jul 27, 2024
Long, hot days at the beach have been a rare thing this summer, but has the weather this summer caused British wildlife to suffer?
Milky Way over Exmoor

The UK’s dark sky reserves

Jul 26, 2024
Staring up at the night sky can inspire wonder so go on a celestial adventure this summer at one of the UK's dark sky reserves.
Environmental activists

Sea Shepherd founder under arrest in Greenland

Jul 23, 2024
Prominent environmental activist arrested in Greenland is just the latest in a series of detentions and arrests of environmental protestors.
Hazel dormouse

Dormice returning to the UK

Jul 22, 2024
The UK's cutest - and sleepiest - rodent is in serious danger, but a reintroduction programe is seeing dormice returning to the UK.
Siamese crocodile

Critically endangered crocodiles born in the wild

Jul 19, 2024
Conservationists are hopeful for the critically endangered Siamese crocodile after sixty babies are born in the wild.
Walking through a bluebell woodland in Yorkshire

Walking makes the world a better place

Jul 18, 2024
Walking costs nothing, can be done anywhere and it can make a big difference to your health and the health of the planet.
Green and golden bell frog

Saunas could save rare frog

Jul 16, 2024
Amphibians are being wiped out due to a fungal infection but now scientists have developed a special frog sauna that could save a rare frog.
Wolverine

Meet Europe’s Big Five: wolf, lynx, brown bear, wolverine & bison

Jul 11, 2024
Make this a wildlife summer to remember by going on safari in search of some of Europe's iconic Big Five mammal species.
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