Red kites, great spotted woodpeckers and pink-footed geese are only a few of the birds doing brilliantly in the British Isles right now. Mark Cocker celebrates their success stories and looks at what might be learnt from them

The pine marten is back, roaming the UK’s woodlands. And its return to some spots after almost a century might be helping out the red squirrel…

IT began as an unremarkable day. Leaves falling into mud on the riverbank, the sun shy behind ink splodged clouds. Jays screeching in the oakwood. I stopped. Mammal tracks drew my eyes. I knelt. These

Hop aboard as Daisy Dobrijevic sets sail to discover the world’s most unusual beasts.

There’s a lovely film on youtube called How Wolves Change Rivers. Narrated by the British writer and environmental campaigner George Monbiot, and largely drawn from his book Feral, it describes how th

Some years ago I filmed a report for Countryfile about a remarkable project to save wild Atlantic salmon. Backing it was a wealthy, charismatic Icelander called Orri Vigfússon who warned: “If we don’t