Innocent Victims Brown & Forrest

Innocent Victims Brown & ForrestIn December 2002, Meryl Harrison moved a large audience to tears at the BBC Animal Awards Ceremony, having been flown over from her native Zimbabwe to receive their Special Award. There she told her tale of the rescue of countless animals caught up in five years of the Zimbabwean land invasions, as farmers and families were forced from their homes to make way for Mugabes war veterans. Many had to leave their animals behind, and it was Meryls mission

Reasons for the near-disappearance of the otter in the 1980s and the reasons for its recovery today

the Roman occupation of Wroxeter and the Battle of Shrewsbury

Musketballs

disease outbreaks and slaughter

the author includes all the latest information:

but these cattle are assailed by lightning strike

by the light of a failing car-headlamp

birdwatchers and day-trippers will be given an insight

Interspersed with pheasant shooting are magical evenings duck flighting and expeditions rabbit shooting

Extracts from their works are illustrated by stunning photography from Bowland-based photographer Helen Shaw

in all corners of the earth

its crops and its wildernesses