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Japanese Macaque along a busy hiking trail This is the final part of my 4-part blog series on wildlife photography in Japan. After visiting some of Japan’s wildest peninsulas and islands in part 3, I return to the Japanese mainland to look at a transformation unfolding in the countryside as the population ages and shrinks.

Rhinoceros Auklet This is Part 3 of my four-part series on wildlife photography in Japan. In Part 2, I wrote about Japan’s winter bird spectacles, some of them sustained by supplementary feeding. In this post, I turn to animals that must fend for themselves: brown bears, seabirds, and whales on Japan’s northern and southern frontiers.

This is Part 2 of my four-part blog series on wildlife photography in Japan. In Part 1, I described how the COVID years turned me into a bird photographer in Tokyo, following pond and shorebirds through parks, rivers, and Tokyo Bay. In this post, I head north and south in search of Japan’s great winter bird spectacles. Click here for Part 1 Steller’s sea eagle with its catch on the drift ice

I just spent three days at Kyotographie, an annual photography festival held in Kyoto between mid-April and Mid-May.

Thank you to the many of you who have been in contact with the XUNICEF Blog over the last few weeks as some of us “new editors” (Joachim Theis, Rob Carr, Soji Adeniya and Tim Sutton) find our feet.

During a downpour in Sulawesi What was your last assignment with UNICEF? Chief of child protection in India.