Archive for conservation
Bluebell season
Friday, April 9th, 2010
To celebrate the annual bluebell season, Ramblers are launching a series of events across the country to help walkers get out there and enjoy the spectacle. It’s all part of an ongoing campaign with the Natural History Museum to better understand one of our most iconic and threatened spring flowers…
Phil Pickin: Multitasking
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Every year, organisations monitoring everything from bird migrations to climate change rely on observations and survey reports from people like us to help them build up databases. You can’t have failed to notice the media coverage of the RSPB’s Big [...]
Landmark law opens up English coast
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Hundreds of miles of inaccessible and out-of-bounds coastline are set to be permanently opened up to the public for the first time under the new Marine and Coastal Access Act…
Adopt a beach
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Looking for something a little different to do this weekend? Why not pitch in at your local beach to help clean up a stretch of Britain’s shoreline…
Designer living
Monday, September 14th, 2009
A stylish new addition to the London Wetland Centre in Barnes was unveiled today – the city’s first architect-designed bat house…
Phil Pickin: Seeing red
Friday, September 11th, 2009
You’d be hard pressed to have missed the media reports on the plight of the red squirrel. The fact that it’s cute, small and photogenic certainly helps to attract public interest, but it’s their continued hounding from native habitats by [...]
The butterflies are back
Friday, September 11th, 2009
One of Britain’s most threatened butterfly species has seen a surge in numbers this summer…
Green peaks
Friday, September 11th, 2009
The Peak District Sustainable Development Fund has awarded a series of grant to create community orchards, a new woodland walk and wildflower meadows around schools…
Stop the slaughter
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Seeing a bird of prey circling high in the sky is an inspiring sight, but these featured guardians of the countryside are still under threat – despite being protected by law for the past 50 years…
Phil Pickin: Ratty’s return
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
It looks like things are looking up for Britain’s water voles.
This compact and furry little animal was the model for Ratty in The Wind in The Willows. But, sadly, since the 1990s its numbers have fallen from around seven million [...]



