Nature needs time to adapt to changing conditions,

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

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Pink and purple plants are colonising new spots

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James fair’s article ‘the burning question on moors’ (October 2025) makes a good stab at presenting the views of both sides of this debate. But by presenting the issue as conservationists versus grous