Hen harrier breeding project takes flight

Adrian Thomas looks to the skies for three special birds that you may see over your garden or might even attract into your space to breed

"Dad used to call me a feckless environmentalist,” Hugh Crossley says warmly of his father, the 3rd Baron Somerleyton. “But he was a conservationist in his own way – he’s the reason we have good hedge

Following two weeks spent acclimatising in a special enclosure near Vylkove, a town on the edge of the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, it was time for four young eagle owls to leave. Though the bi

An ecosystem evolves across thousands of years, a biological interaction that is both intricate and fragile. The arrival of a new species can disrupt the balance, as we have seen in Britain with grey

Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family– and a figure of particular terror to the vole

The article by jess stevens on black rhinos in Namibia (‘My only option was to pretend to be a tree’, October 2025) reminded me of my visits there more than 20 years ago, when I volunteered for variou