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Alderney’s Les Etacs (Garden Rocks) have been suggested as a possible Channel Islands reserve by the Marine Conservation Society.	(0262351)

THE UK is awash with plans to establish marine nature reserves and conservation zones all around the country. Its Marine and Coastal Access Act has established four teams to identify conservation zones to protect seas around the coasts.

Destination: South Atlantic

Tim Earl is hoping to get close to a killer whale or two. (Picture by Maav.i)

I WILL be attempting to find an orca (killer whale) or two for my clients as you read this article.

South for the winter

Guyanan author Dr Graham Watkins got the shot of a lifetime as a giant anteater and baby walked past him.

THERE was no doubt that seeing a giant anteater was my guests’ most wanted wish on a recent trip to Guyana. What they saw on the savannah close to the Brazilian border was altogether unexpected and wonderful: a female carrying its baby on its back – a rare and exciting sight.

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Tennerfest serves up to half a million meals

AFTER another successful year, the Tennerfest ends today. It was launched on Thursday 1 October.

Airs and disgraces

‘THERE are a-gulls and b-gulls, but never sea-gulls,’ night-class pupil Ted Banks told me years ago.

All at sea

Birdwatching is not all about success and excitement, as Tim Earl discovers while bobbing around on the ocean 15 miles north of Guernsey. Seabirds remain stubbornly out of sight – but other wildlife compensates…

Demise of the dodo

BEING famous for becoming extinct is the worst possible epitaph, but the dodo is just that.

The nest of intentions

THE young ginger-headed marsh harriers flying around La Claire Mare nature reserve at L’Eree are the first ever hatched in Guernsey. It is a great thrill to see what were once unproductive boggy fields now returned to their former splendour as wild marais.

Scot free

I’VE been rescued. Having been shipwrecked in the Seychelles (my ship. Hebridean Spirit. was sold to an Arab sheik, that is, and the crew and I said our farewells in Mahe), a princess has come to my rescue.

Vazon and Petit Bot named among nation’s top beaches

GUERNSEY beaches have been highlighted as some of the best in the country by two national newspapers.