As Sir David Attenborough turns 100, The Wildlife Trusts’ Chief Executive Craig Bennett reflects on his monumental impact on UK wildlife conservation ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most common wood ant is the southern wood Ant, or 'red wood ant', which is found in England and Wales. An aggressive predator, it plays a vital pest control role in our woodlands. The southern ...

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 ...

A very rare ant, once found on heathland across southern England but now restricted to Scotland and Devon. It constructs distinctive thatched nests in open areas at the edges of scrub, and forages for ...

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 ...

Surfaced spaces needn't exclude wildlife! Gravel can often be the most wildlife-friendly solution for a particular area. Surfaced spaces have all kinds of uses. You may need off-street parking, a ...

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 ...

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 ...