OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE

The forests near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire are the only place on earth where brown bear s, leopards and tigers co-exist. They are also home to one of nature's rarest birds, the Blakiston's fish owl. A chance encounter wi th this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght's life beyond measure. During the following two decades , Slaght's quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction took him over thousands of miles of forbidding and threatened terrain. Thrilli...[Read more]