Help fight threat to blackbirds

The blackbird is undeniably one of the countryside’s ...

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke investigates the impact of feeding wild birds, and whether it’s a factor behind the decline of a woodland specialist

The first small tortoiseshell I’ve seen this year has just fluttered past – and my heart soared. This is one of those iconic common and widespread butterfly beauties that reminds me of my childhood ro

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

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?

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