Sir David Attenborough, now in his hundredth year, has stepped forward to champion the £30m Rothbury Appeal on its first anniversary in a bid to create a major step-change for nature recovery in the ...

Award-winning rainforest garden opens today at Bristol Zoo Project, unveiled as a stunning showcase of one of the UK’s rarest habitats.

Water Framework Directive, Ali Morse, Water Policy Manager, dives into the Directive and assesses whether its high ambitions ...

A new proposal from a group of peers could disarm the most damaging aspect of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and reduce the risks that it currently poses to the natural world. The Bill, as it ...

Nationwide’s head office in Swindon has achieved The Wildlife Trusts’ Biodiversity Benchmark, becoming the first bank or ...

The Wildlife Trusts are inviting creative nature lovers across the UK to take part in their winter jumper design competition.

As the IUCN World Congress has drawn to a close, Rob Stoneman, Director of Landscape Recovery, reflects on the last week.

The Wildlife Trusts received 18,425 responses to their campaign, one of the highest numbers ever received for a marine issue. Each individual response was emailed to the Marine Management Organisation ...

Fangs to spinners, the bodies of the largest British spiders are around 20mm (including the great fox, which I re-discovered ...

The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm and mate. The ...

With black-and-yellow markings, the hornet mimic hoverfly looks like its namesake, but is harmless to us. This mimicry helps to protect it from predators while it searches for nectar. At almost 2cm ...

Living up to its name, the white-tailed bumblebee is black-and-yellow bee with a bright white 'tail'. A social bumble bee, it can be found nesting in gardens and woods, and on farmland and heaths. The ...