One hundred years ago, at a remote spot in the Persian mountains, the earth suddenly started to rumble and, as men shouted with jubilation and trepidation, a stinking black torrent burst through ...
Louis the Persian from Sherfield English, near Romsey, Hampshire, climbed the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales - Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis and Snowdon. One of his owners, Jess Peters ...
A newspaper article led us to Kurdistan in northern Iraq, where conservation biologist Hana Raza had discovered Persian leopards inhabiting oak and pistachio woodlands high up in the mountains.