At the Oxford Farming Conference today, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Emma Reynolds, has announced upcoming changes to Environmental Land Management schemes in ...

The Wilding Gardens conference will take place in Manchester on 15th and 16th January to debate bold new ideas to reboot wildlife gardening ...

What colours do you associate with winter? The obvious answers are white, for the occasional dusting of snow; or grey, for ...

The Wildlife Trusts are hailing 2025 as a ‘bumper year’ for new arrivals and discoveries across their nature reserves, ...

Wildlife can sometimes be hard to spot, especially if it is nocturnal. But the signs that animals frequent an area can be a good start to discovering all kinds of species, from rare otters to common ...

Rob Stoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery, explores the potential of natural flood management, and why business support is crucial.

As farmers and the agriculture sector prepare to attend the big conferences in Oxford this week, Vicki Hird, strategic lead for agriculture at The Wildlife Trusts, writes, there are concerns about the ...

Craig Bennett, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list 2026, in ...

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; ...

A diminutive but aggressive predator, the three-spined stickleback hunts tadpoles and small fish. It is also known for fiercely protecting its nest of eggs until they hatch. Look for it in ponds, ...

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 ...

Living up to its name, the oak apple gall wasp produces growths, or 'galls', on oak twigs that look like little apples. Inside the gall, the larvae of the wasp feed on the host tissues, but cause ...