Confession and repentance: a photographer's tale

One of China's most renowned chroniclers of wildlife is making amends for having failed to care

Xi Zhinong has worked for 40 years taking photos of nature not only to capture its beauty but to promote conservation. That is why he feels deeply ashamed not to have known much sooner that the green peacock, a great bird that is culturally significant to China, was on the brink of extinction.

Xi is one of China's most acclaimed wildlife photographers and acclaimed conservationists, the first Chinese person to win Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the Gerald Durrell Awards for Endangered Wildlife and the TVE Award at the British Wild Screen Festival.