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DANGEROUS ANIMALS

Climate change is shifting the balance of vineyard biodiversity, creating new challenges for wine-growers

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?

It’s 9pm in late april in an area of the Isle of Man known as the Ballaugh Curragh, and a most unusual nocturnal migration is taking place. As darkness descends on a 2km² area of wet woodland, an esti

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