Kieran Murphy

As we drove through the lunar landscape of the Rhumsiki hills, in the Extreme North Province of Cameroon, the lone woman wrapped in bright red and yellow Kanga cloth stood out against the hazy horizon, which blurred the dusty earth and the clear blue sky.

The first thing that struck me about Rwanada was the colour. The bright red and yellow fabrics wrapped around women with babies asleep on their backs, the rich blue school uniforms of children heading home past bicycles laden with bunches of yellow, ripe bananas (and jugs of banana beer!) all set against a backdrop of lush, forested volcanoes.

was lucky enough to attend the Born Free Foundation recently at the Royal Geographical Society in London, where a panel of experts gathered to discuss the tourism industry's impact on wildlife and wildlife tourism. Given the tourism industry is the single biggest employer of people in the world, it has the potential for a huge impact on the natural world.

An unmitigated environmental disaster, an economic crisis and a personal tragedy, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to elicit more questions than environmentalists can be answer. President Obama's rhetoric on the matter is becoming increasingly bellicose as he responds to public demand for those responsible to be brought to task

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