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…

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 [...]

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…

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…

A stylish new addition to the London Wetland Centre in Barnes was unveiled today – the city’s first architect-designed bat house…

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 [...]

One of Britain’s most threatened butterfly species has seen a surge in numbers this summer…

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…

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…

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 [...]