Spotlight on… badger culling

Though it has largely dropped out of the headlines, a virus that triggered an unprecedented global wildlife emergency is still on the rampage, prompting scientists to call for urgent action to prevent

IT HAS BEEN DONE ON LUNDY (size: 4.45km²), Ruapuke Island (16km²) and South Georgia (3,500km²), but now conservationists want to eliminate non-native, invasive predators from much, much larger sites:

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague

For weeks this summer, firefighters have battled flames across Langdale Moor in the North York Moors National Park. The fire has scorched more than 2,000 acres – about 10 square miles – inland between

30-minute-birder Amanda Tuke meets Kent’s charismatic corvids…

Zoologist, writer, TV presenter – Dr Sasha Norris has had a glittering career in academia and the media since she graduated from the University of Bristol more than 30 years ago. Yet today she’s kneel