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Results are in for an innovative study into the feeding habits of one of the UK’s best loved seabirds, the Puffin. Published in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology, this ground-breaking citizen science project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, invited members of the public, the ‘Puffarazzi’, to...
An annual co-ordinated count of Whimbrel across Lancashire has shown that a young nature reserve in Grimsargh is proving to be increasingly popular with the species....
The swallowtail, Britain’s biggest butterfly, last year had its worst summer since scientific counting began in 1976. What followed was potentially more catastrophic: the deepest and longest winter floods in living memory across the Norfolk Broads, which is the only place where this spectacular insect still breeds....
RARE amphibians are featured in the next episode of Springwatch, broadcasting live from a popular Dorset beauty spot....
The UK’s first urban beavers were introduced into a west London nature reserve back in October. The family of five are part of a project that aims to get the public to engage with nature, to study biodiversity improvements and to monitor flood mitigation effects. Seven months on, how is it faring?...
The Big Paddle Cleanup is returning for two weeks to continue our mission to improve precious blue places....
The latest survey of the UK’s resident Eurasian Woodcock population has shown that numbers are still declining overall, albeit at a slower rate than before....
Funding has been agreed for three river restoration projects in West Sussex....
A huge project to create one of the biggest reedbeds in the UK at a quarry site is more than half complete....
In my 20s I lived in Manchester, on the sixth floor of a block of council flats just off the A57, or Mancunian (Mancy) Way. A short walk from Manchester Piccadilly station and the city centre, it was grey, noisy and built up. I loved every piece of it – my first stab at adulthood, at living on my own. I painted my bedroom...
When Russell Brand and Bear Grylls took a dip at Henley-on-Thames in late April for Brand’s much-vaunted baptism, let’s hope for their sake that the water was first tested for E.coli. British waterways are rife with the harmful bacteria, along with other nasties, and for the thousands of keen outdoor swimmers diving into the...
Conservation groups say they are “thrilled” to have been given a grant of £1.2m to help them reintroduce pine martens to woodland in the south west of England....
A National Highways-funded green initiative to protect and enhance biodiversity alongside the A30 in Cornwall has just completed....
South Cumbria has enjoyed several wildlife success stories, from the successful breeding of Ospreys at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve to the thriving seal population at Walney Island....
A ban on peat compost and the reintroduction of beavers are among some of the environmental pledges the Tories failed to fulfil ahead of July’s general election....
The National Trust plans to plant 20,000 native trees at a Co Armagh historic home in a bid to help introduce wildlife corridors in the area....
A multi-million pound project to remove historic industrial waste from a popular Northumbrian beach is set to get under way....
They’re both fairly unappealing and just a bit whiffy: thick, toxic algal blooms that increasingly clog Scotland’s lochs and rivers and smelly mountains of sewage sludge....
Help us take nature’s pulse by joining the Big Butterfly Count....
A large seahorse found off the Dorset coast is one of the biggest ever recorded, experts have said....
The Tree Council welcomes the passing of UK Government legislation to protect hedgerows in England, including a cutting ban between March and the end of August....
THE only species of crab that can be found in UK freshwaters has been found in the Conwy Estuary....
A plant that went extinct in the wild has been re-introduced to the UK mainland. We can’t tell you the exact location - it’s a secret, to keep it safe. It’s just one small plant but with one in six species in the UK endangered, you’ve got to start somewhere. We were there the moment pioneering horticulturist Robbie...
The Environment Agency has been ordered by the government to clear thousands of tonnes of illegally dumped waste from a Kent woodland....
