In a joint blog and briefing Matt Browne of The Wildlife Trusts and Philip Box of Wildlife & Countryside Link make the case for removal of the much-abused de minimis exemption to Biodiversity Net Gain ...

The biggest landscape investigation ever undertaken by The Wildlife Trusts is underway on The Rothbury Estate in ...

The report, Priority Actions for North Sea Cetaceans 2026, finds that while large parts of UK seas are designated as protected, these legal safeguards are in many places too weak, poorly enforced, or ...

Water butts lower the risks of local flooding and will reduce water bills by conserving the water you already have. They're great for watering the garden, refilling the pond - or even washing the car!

Swifts like to leave their nests by dropping into the air from the entrance. This is why they often choose to set up camp in the eaves of buildings. If you have a wall that's at least five metres tall ...

One of our most wild-seeming landscapes, heathland has actually been shaped by human actions. It began at least 5000 years ago, when humans started clearing trees growing on infertile soils, probably ...

The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing of bees. Together, the UK's gardens are larger than all of our ...

Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft, damp ...

These grasslands, occupying much of the UK's heavily-grazed upland landscape, are of greater cultural than wildlife interest, but remain a habitat to some scarce and declining species. Upland acid ...

The report, Counting Chickens - An analysis of UK poultry numbers, sheds new light on the scale of the poultry sector in England, particularly in the chicken farming hotspots of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, ...