![]() ![]() ![]() And he has observed how Russia's logging interests and evolving fortunes present new threats to the owl's survival. He has spent time with the Russians who struggle on in the harsh conditions of the taiga forest. During months-long journeys covering thousands of miles, he has pursued it through its forbidding territory. This is the story of Slaght's quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction. A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. ![]() It is also home to one of nature's rarest birds, the Blakiston's fish owl. Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leopards co-exist. ' Gripping' Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale If only every endangered species had a guardian angel as impassioned, courageous and pragmatic as Jonathan Slaght' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardĪ Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award ![]()
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