Jonathan Kemp
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- Sep 5, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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New life springs in Aude among 2025 wildfire carnage (opens the original)
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A year after the devastating Ribaute wildfire, wildlife and plants are returning as experts study Corbières ecosystem recovery On August 5, 2025, a wildfire broke out in the heart of the Corbières region of the Aude department. Fuelled by three years of drought, fierce winds and very high temperatures, this fire, known as the ‘Incendie de Ribaute’, became one of the most destructive in living memory. Initial estimates of the area affected were put at 17,000 hectares, but this figure has since be
Best British nature writing: nightingales, peregrines and other bird books to read (opens the original)
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Explore classic bird literature and why it still inspires readers and birders today British writers and poets have been inspired by nature, and most notably birdlife, for many centuries. One of the regrets that I have with regard to my French birding friends is that it is rare that I can share the wealth of literature that exists in the English language with them; like myself, they mainly prefer to read in their mother tongue. A famous poem that has marked generations since it was written in 181
Discover Aude's wild beauty on a botanist-led donkey trek (opens the original)
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Jonathan Kemp shares his experience of trekking through the Corbières mountains to explore nature's wonders and local historical sites I have just returned from a long walk with friends in the Corbières region of the Aude, a journey guided by a botanist to witness, among other things, the richness of the Spring flowers that bloom in this wild and relatively pristine area of the department. Bordered to the north and west by the river Aude, the river Algy to the south and the Mediterranean to the
How to identify birdsong in France: robins, blackbirds, thrushes and tits (opens the original)
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Discover when birds start singing and the key calls to listen for I am writing this as, despite the very mixed weather that this year has provided, the first signs of the avian spring unfold. Rachel Carson, writing in the US in the 1960s, warned that the use of synthetic pesticides was causing unprecedented harm to the natural world, and her book entitled Silent Spring is credited with inspiring the grassroots environmental movement. Although many of her predictions have proved to be founded on
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