Associate Editor at Down To Earth (Web). His main interests include history, wildlife, culture, cuisine, theology and indigenous peoples
‘Dhib’ & ‘Nimr’: Can Israel-Palestine’s Negev, Judaean deserts ever revive populations of world’s smallest wolf, leopard?
The last Arabian leopards were sighted in the area in the noughties; the Arabian wolf hangs on tenaciously; but can they be revived if the region …
‘It is the elephant-headed aspect so prevalent in Ganesha that has allowed his icon to gain a foothold in many cultures’
Down To Earth speaks to Lode Rosseels, a Belgian engineer, linguist and Japanologist, on Ganesha's journey from India to Tibet, China and Japan