The bright green ring-necked parakeet is an escapee and our only naturalised parrot; its success is likely due to warmer winters. A medium-sized, green parakeet, the ring-necked parakeet is the UK's ...
The water vole is a much-loved British mammal, known by many as ‘Ratty’ in the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows. Unfortunately, the future of this charming riverside creature is in peril; ...
Charles Rothschild had founded the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves (SPNR - now The Wildlife Trusts) in May 1912, with the objective of protecting special places for wildlife. Over the ...
Waders can be a tough group to define. The term is used to describe members of a number of bird families, all from the order Charadriiformes (which also includes gulls, terns, skuas, and auks). As the ...
We are in the middle of a climate and nature emergency, and the two are inextricably linked. Climate change is driving nature’s decline, and the loss of wildlife and wild places leaves us ill-equipped ...
There have been 19 Marine Conservation Zones designated in the Western Channel and Approaches so far, ranging from the reefs and rocky shores of Skerries Bank and Surrounds on the coast of Devon, to ...