Let them eat venison

Patrick Galbraith calls for a bit less tinkering around the hedges

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

HOW ELK MEAT BECAME THE LATEST HOLLYWOOD HACK

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at

When it comes to food shopping, we all want to try to make a positive difference and do our bit for sustainability–but how exactly should we go about it, asks Jane Wheatley

Asian or yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) can deliver a very painful sting widely described as being “jabbed with a red-hot needle”. However, as with our native European hornet (Vespa crabro), t