Rooting for the truth

Structured, social and remarkably sophisticated, a bustling woodland ant community is home to engineers, farmers, nurses and warriors

Britain’s native breeds and their grazing talents are an integral part of the drive to balance food production with biodiversity recovery. Kate Green explains why we should look closer to home in the quest to re-create the natural habitats of the past

Managing a large estate in the Scottish Highlands involves a lot of work and plenty of land maintenance. However, when Highland Titles Nature Reserve needed some help, they didn’t call a gardener – th

Visiting family can be stressful, but whenever I return to the farm where I grew up I know I’m going to get a warm welcome. Not from my parents, from Rhubarb the pig, our family pet, who jovially trot

The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith

They’ve recently made headlines for interfering with boats, but intelligent, family-focused and remarkably long-lived orcas–better known as killer whales–contain multitudes,