Rise in asian hornets spotted this year

’TIS the season when the air hums with both ...

With a ‘butterfly emergency’ in the UK, conservationists are gearing up for this year’s Big Butterfly Count. But what has happened to these insects? And can they – on a wing and a prayer – ever bounce back?

Karen Youngs has a painful encounter with a nettle patch on an afternoon walk

At the height of summer, little owls are often active during daylight in the morning and evening. In July the recently fledged young start to explore the area around the nest. The owlets are adorable,

Climate change is bringing the emerging threat of West Nile virus ever closer to the UK. Richard Newton FRCVS and Fleur Whitlock MRCVS outline what you need to know

Britain could be getting a new ecosystem engineer: in the wake of the ongoing and now legal reintroductions of beavers into watersheds around the country, two Wildlife Trusts now want to bring back th