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A photographic celebration of the return of otters to our rivers
and freshwater wetlands after a drastic decline. Ripples of
excitement are spreading through Europe's rivers and wetlands. A
generation ago, otter watching was a wildlife highlight restricted
to remote coastal areas - otter populations had been decimated over
the previous century by pesticide poisoning and habitat
disturbance. Now we are seeing the positive effect of determined
conservation efforts over recent decades. As our waterways improve,
otters are returning and spreading throughout their former
habitats. One of the UK's leading natural history photographers,
Laurie Campbell got to know otters while working in Scotland's
Highlands and Islands, but he had never seen these elusive
predators on his home beat. Then, in the early 1990s, he was
delighted to find otters back on the Tweed and its tributaries, a
river system he has lived close to for most of his life. The
discovery launched him on a quest to create a photographic account
of their lives on his home river. More than two decades later,
otter numbers continue to increase, and new generations of otters
have become more confident around people, sometimes appearing in
broad daylight and in town centres. Laurie continues his
long-standing study, still photographing the otters through the
changing seasons - always with an eye on the bigger picture of the
river itself and the plants and animals that share the otters'
habitat. Wildlife journalist and writer Anna Levin accompanies
Laurie to the riverbank and learns of his working philosophy and
fieldcraft. Together they weave a wealth of information into the
stories that the pictures tell. While extracts from Anna's
notebooks offer a vivid glimpse of the photographer at work and the
otters that enchant them both.
Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter -
you can see it from space. But is brighter always better?
Artificial light is voracious and spreading. Vanquishing precious
darkness across the planet, when we are supposed to be using less
energy. The quality of light has altered as well. Technology and
legislation have crushed warm incandescent lighting in favour of
harsher, often glaring alternatives. Light is fundamental - it
really matters. It interacts with life in profound yet subtle ways:
it tells plants which way to grow, birds where to fly and coral
when to spawn. It tells each and every one of us when to sleep,
wake, eat. We mess with the eternal rhythm of dawn-day-dusk-night
at our peril. But mess with it we have, and we still don't truly
understand the consequences. In Incandescent, journalist Anna Levin
reveals her own fraught relationship with changes in lighting, and
she explores its real impact on nature, our built environment,
health and psychological well-being. We need to talk about light,
urgently. And ask the critical question: just how bright is our
future?
Young amateur archeologist Jodie invites her cousin Zach on a
Passover adventure to explore Hezekiahs Tunnel in Jerusalem, the
famous secret water tunnel. Sloshing through the long, creepy,
dark, wet passage, they solve the riddle in the middle and find a
shiny treasure!
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