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I was driving down to our rain-forest patch last week while still on a main road to Kisumu on the eastern shores of Lake Victoria, when I saw a large crowd on both sides of the road. I assumed it to be an accident but I saw no motor vehicle. I slowed, stopped the car, got out and spotted a small snake on the side of the road surrounded by an excitable crowd looking fearful and agitated. I walked straight...

I know we all live in an increasingly international world but the last ten days have been unusually so for the tree-planter. On my 75th...

A reader from overseas asked me to write something about the war in Africa. ‘Which war?’ I asked. Although there is trouble in the...

The internet tells us that the five most crime-ridden countries in the world are Haiti, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and...

So you think it’s easy? Just stick in a few seeds and seedlings and wait a couple of decades. Well, it ain’t. We have been creating a...