Nature lovers across the north of England are being invited to spend their summer helping to look for rare butterflies and moths.Butterfly Conservation wants people to join its surveys across…

A landmark €20.8 million cross-border conservation initiative, PeacePlus  Nature, has been officially launched, marking a significant environmental investment for nature. The programme, led by RSPB No...

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Campaigners said that the change being considered by ministers, which would increase the number of developments and building projects, would be ‘devastating’

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Join the Butterfly Rescue Mission  Sign our open letter to UK retailers, asking them to remove synthetic pesticides from sale, for a wilder, butterfly-filled future for generations to come.  The UK ...

Brian had surprise when on 8/09/25 this huge scary looking moth (though harmless) landed in his garden and he tells us: Crash landed in Swanage overnight! It squeaked when I picked it up!! A Death&…

More than three years have passed since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for gardening, yet official documentation is still to appear and peat extraction continues. On 27 August 2022, the Conservative Government promised to ban the sale of horticultural peat by 2024

Southern Small White has been recorded in Britain for the first time, with sightings in Suffolk and Cleveland in summer 2025. Once confined to southern Europe, the species is expanding rapidly north despite puzzling ecological models. Identification challenges mean more UK records may emerge soon, making this a landmark summer for British butterfly enthusiasts and naturalists alike.