creatures

Last in our present series of Other Kingdoms we bring you Monique Besten's elegy on the black grouse of her native Netherlands from Issue 19.

In the first of three Other kingdoms posts, Jane Smith takes us on a Wounded Badger patrol into the English woods at night

For Dark Kitchen Max Jones follows the dairy herd into the Italian Alps and celebrates the sounds, rhythms and tastes of the ancient practice of transhumance

Laura  Coleman's heartbreaking story about the burial of a puma beside the forest river she loved.

For The Vanishing series, Rupert Read considers the future of human societies , following in the wake of whales. With artworks by Angela Cockayne.

Two penetrating glimpses into the wild world in times of calamity: Rob Carney's juxtaposition of the poetic and the political observing a hawk and squirrel in the US; Samantha Clark's lockdown contemplation of loss and stillness by a loch on a grey day on Orkney.

As catastrophic fires continue to rage through West coast in the US and the wetlands of Brazil, a lament for the burning of wild lives of the forests in Washington and Australia.

Today from our Under the Canopy section, conservationist and writer Suprabha Seshan takes us into the 'zillion-beinged' forest of the Western Ghats. With paintings by Meena Subramaniam