‘Why I spent my life saving the Blakiston’s fish owl’

Jonathan Slaght has devoted decades to preserving the largest owl species in the world. Here he talks about his wilderness adventures in a remote corner of RussiaWhen I was 19, in the summer of 1995, I fell in love with an owl. I’d just spent two weeks in Primorye in the Russian far east – a wild, mountainous province bordering the Sea of Japan, China and North Korea. It is a region of dense forests, rolling mountains, clean rivers and spectacular coastlines. Exotic locations were no