Beavers

With notable caveats, beavers can help wild trout thrive, writes Dr Rob Needham

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

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

Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

PHOTO: TOM BAILEY 1 It’s a win for ...

Photographer Helen Iles revisits Ynys Enlli for a few days of seal watching and star shooting. She finds much had been left unchanged on this ‘Island in the Currents’ as she volunteers to protect its ways from the wild elements that encircle it