I was first alerted to dieback of gorse (Ulex europeaus) at the Thames Basin Facilitation Fund Group that I jointly coordinate at the end...

This is the second in a series of blogs written during the Covid-19 outbreak, aimed at encouraging you to explore new places and discover...

This is the first in a series of blogs written during the Covid-19 outbreak, aimed at encouraging you to explore new places and discover...

A warm summer’s evening. A walk through a flower-filled meadow. The rhythmic chirping of grasshoppers and the constant humming of...

When I were a lad, all this was fields... There were so many flying insects that we had to stop and clean them off the windscreen when we...

A recent study, published in the journal Science, tells us that the restoration of vast tracts of tree cover is going to be one of the...

Rewilding, as a technique for increasing biodiversity, is a hot topic. Rather than relying on human activities, such as coppicing, hay...

We move wildlife around the countryside for all sorts of reasons. Much of this is accidental - I have often discovered plant seeds stuck...

Everything that we do has an impact on the environment, and therefore on the biodiversity that depends upon that environment. One of the...

On a warm summer afternoon a small, darting object hovers briefly next to the valerian and lavender flowers in our front garden before...