GEO Reports

Considered lucky in Thailand, elephants are an integral part of Thai culture. In the north of the country, the only elephant hospital in the world has existed for over twenty years.

For the past fourteen years, Brice has taken his herd of cows to graze in vast pastures in the mountains, five months out of the year. He loves to run to the point of exhaustion in the Pyrenees, across the steep slopes, ridges and rocks at 3000 metres above sea level. It's a spartan, lonely existence, but for Brice, it is the definition of happiness.

En Malaisie, le premier club de moto exclusivement féminin d'Asie du Sud-Est compte pour l'instant 35 membres, toutes très motivées par leur passion.

Since 1963, a unique railway line has traversed Mauritania and its oceans of sand. The 2.5-kilometre-long desert train, with more than 100 wagons, was built to transport iron ore to the Atlantic coast and has become a vital means of transport for the desert inhabitants.

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. After his death in 1993, the hippos escaped and have been colonising local waterways ever since. Conservationists are now waging a war against this invasive species which is harmful to the local ecosystem and highly dangerous to humans.

In southern Thailand, the Koh Panyee village sits on stilts and even has a floating football field, built in the 1990s by a group of children. But over time, the ad hoc field has fallen into disrepair. But now the village is about to hold its first tournament in years and the field needs a major overhaul.