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If implemented in its current form, Part 3 of the UK Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill would see a weakening of ...
The Chancellor has committed to spending £2 billion a year on nature-friendly farming, and £400 million to plant trees and ...
As the film so vividly demonstrates, our ocean has an extraordinary ability to bounce back to life – if we let it. Often all ...
Fen Raft Spiders, one of the UK’s rarest spider species, are anticipated to have their best year on record at RSPB nature reserves, thanks to conservation efforts. Back in 2010, the future looked ...
A new study shows how solar farms could help boost bird numbers and increase the variety of wildlife. With competing pressures on UK land, this offers a solution that would help the UK deliver on ...
A murmuration is the collective noun for a group of Starlings. Murmurations can form enormous cloud-like shapes as Starlings swoop and dive in clever patterns, avoiding any collisions in a way that ...
A river restoration project to bring back its natural twists and turns, benefitting wildlife and the landscape, has won the prestigious UK River Prize Project-scale Award 2025. RSPB Geltsdale is a ...
Researchers are celebrating after finding two record-breaking Oystercatchers within just one month of each other on England’s East Coast Wetlands. Both birds are thought to be over 40 years old – ...
Scientists from the RSPB, BirdLife International (UK), Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands) and Natural History Museum, London have confirmed the likely extinction of the Slender-billed ...
One of the world’s rarest birds, the Wilkins’ Bunting, was facing extinction with its food source under threat. We look at how a tiny wasp has handed the bird a lifeline, and the epic 10,000km journey ...
We’re thrilled to share that RSPB Wallasea Island in Essex is expanding, thanks to a transformative grant from the Ida Davis Family Foundation. The team are hopeful that the nature reserve’s first ...
It’s been another record-breaking year for Bitterns in the UK with 283 booming males recorded in the latest results from the RSPB and Natural England, a 20% increase from the previous survey and the ...