In the current literature on global warming and climate change, reforestation and the preservation of rain forest is high on the list of the most useful contributions any one individual, group or nation can make. 

Albie has always had a passion for the environment. As a student he kept snakes in his bedroom in a hall of residence at the university where he was studying botany and zoology, and enjoying many field trips around Southern Africa, where he grew up.

This text was written in 2011. Subsequently, in 2014, Nick & Anita returned to the UK where, sadly, Nick developed motor neurone disease with front-lobe dementia, and died on 17 August 2016.