The Wildlife Trusts congratulate the UK Government’s decision to open the door for licenced reintroductions of beavers into the wild and its acknowledgment of the free-living populations in several ...

The water vole is a much-loved British mammal, known by many as ‘Ratty’ in the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows. Unfortunately, the future of this charming riverside creature is in peril; ...

“Dogs enrich our lives, but they also bring a level of responsibility. Whilst many of us enjoy taking our dogs for long walks, especially as it becomes a bit warmer, we urge dog owners to consider ...

Award winning artist, Cy Baker, has partnered with The Wildlife Trusts to auction original artworks of much-loved nature ...

We are in the middle of a climate and nature emergency, and the two are inextricably linked. Climate change is driving nature’s decline and the loss of wild spaces is leaving us ill-equipped to reduce ...

Latest update: a WIN for wildlife! January 2025: The UK Government has said NO to the industry's request to allow banned chemicals to be used on our sugar beet crops! Joan Edwards, Director of Policy ...

We need to restore nature at a global scale, on land and at sea. And it needs to happen now. Strategy 2030 provides the high-level framework of how we intend to go about it. Our vision is of a ...

Over the space of a few weeks in spring, from mid-April onwards, bluebells set our woodlands ablaze with their bright blue flowers. The UK is home to more than half the world’s population of bluebells ...

Peatlands are amazingly wild places, home to rare and unusual plants, birds and insects. They are wetland landscapes characterised by waterlogged soils made of dead and decaying plants, called peat.

Cool, crystal-clear waters flow over gravelly beds, streaming through white-flowered water-crowfoot and watercress in serene lowland landscapes. Chalk rivers are a particularly lovely type of lowland ...

In May 1912, a month after the Titanic sank, banker and expert naturalist Charles Rothschild held a meeting at the Natural History Museum in London to discuss his idea for a new organisation to save ...

Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land that are especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas. Local Wildlife Sites are identified and selected locally ...