These pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back to britain

Instead of another trip to the zoo, try exploring your local rewilding project over the holidays. Rewilding – the large-scale restoration of nature to the point where it can take care of itself again

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

Over centuries, we’ve profoundly changed Scotland’s rivers – pacifying them and bringing them under our control. We’ve felled native woodlands to ‘tidy’ riverbanks, disconnected watercourses from thei

Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle

The public outcry that swept the nation after the mindless destruction of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree that had stood for 150 years in a dramatic dip of Hadrian’s Wall showed just how much we ca

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