Although we can’t wait for the day when we can all begin travelling again, our operations team has been using the unexpected extra time to come up with all sorts of innovative new ideas for tours, which we’ll be excited to launch when the world opens up once again.

Read about highlights from recent tours to India ...

The Pyrenees have been my wildlife tour-guiding destination of choice now for almost 30 years, with more than 25 tours under my belt to both the Spanish and French sides of the range. What explains its consistent pull on me, when there are so many other magnificent wildlife areas in Europe and the rest of the world?

Partners Jane Dixon and Adam Dudley are Naturetrek tour leaders and ground agents in the USA.

I had, for some time, suspected that the Brown Hairstreak butterfly might be present in the extensive untrimmed blackthorn hedges surrounding the meadows and horse paddocks at the Naturetrek office in Chawton, but a brief glimpse of a late adult in September 2016 was all I had to show for it.