Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Nature’s spiky deterrents–thorns, spines and prickles–may be quick to catch us out, but they can also prove to be a useful ally, discovers Laura Parker

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke finds it hard to relax on holiday when so much is going on back home in London…

When, at the age of 12, Inga Nikitiniene first saw a photograph of the pineapple orchid, Dendrobium densiflorum, her response was instinctive. “I knew immediately that I wanted to have this plant. I d

For a little over six months, you could glimpse the future from the window of the Big Issue’s London offices. Sandwiched between an estate management agency and a clothes shop, Yum Bug – the capital’s