Here be dragons

I started talking to dragonflies in India at a place where my husband and I stayed several times in the foothills of the Himalayas. I noticed that dragonflies came and settled in the sunshine on the p

Easy ways to make your garden more nature-friendly

The results of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count 2025 are in, revealing the long-term forecast for the survival of many of our much-loved summer insects is still gloomy. The sunniest spring

Found across heathland, moorland, woodland and grassland, the common lizard can be seen basking in sunny spots

A healthy ecosystem in the garden has so many benefits for your plants and local wildlife. The autumn and winter months can be notoriously tricky for plot visitors thanks to the diminished food resour

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel