There are only a few mammals in the UK that hibernate through the winter – bats, hedgehogs and hazel dormice. The rest have ...

Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) are a new type of marine designation designed to allow marine life to recover. By ...

Today, the UK Government has announced its intention to bring forward a “complete ban on bee killing pesticides” with ...

Alastair Fitter awarded Cadbury Medal for services to UK nature conservation - 26 years after his father received the same ...

Sophie Baker, communications officer at Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust, explores our native ...

Ordinary people find extraordinary ‘climate indicator’ species in UK waters Wildlife Trust volunteers clock over 46,000 hours of surveys and beach cleans Research highlights the need to improve protec ...

A new report from The Wildlife Trusts, The National Water Vole Database Project Report, published today, identifies continued declines in water vole populations set against heartening increases in ...

This site has been designated for a range of estuarine habitats as well as for the tentacled lagoon worm, which lives in the narrow channels upstream of this dynamic estuary. The sheltered muddy ...

We need to restore nature at a global scale, on land and at sea. And it needs to happen now. Strategy 2030 provides the high-level framework of how we intend to go about it. Our vision is of a ...

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; ...

Horsehair worms are parasitic worms of the clade Nematoida alongside their sister taxa Nematoda, the roundworms. The most famous trait of certain species of horsehair worms is the ability to alter the ...