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Accolades awarded for outdoor adventures: Watch Group of the Year
Monday 2nd February, 2015
It’s the little things that count for a group of young wildlife enthusiasts who love discovering the natural world’s ‘minibeasts’ and, for these efforts and more, are today announced as ‘Watch Group of the Year 2014’ by The Wildlife Trusts
Seeds of imagination planted with Forest Schools funding
Monday 2nd February, 2015
Inner city children to benefit from regular access to natural world
British Wildlife Photography Awards 2015: Call for entries
Sunday 1st February, 2015
The 2015 competition is now open for entries
Government cuts back on ambitions for marine protection
Friday 30th January, 2015
Public consultation opens to bitter disappointment at exclusion of important areas due to ‘economic cost’
It's official - beavers are back!
Wednesday 28th January, 2015
The Wildlife Trusts are celebrating today’s government announcement that England’s first wild colony of breeding beavers is to be allowed to remain living wild on a Devon river
New report calls for a 25-year investment plan for the natural environment
Tuesday 27th January, 2015
An influential independent panel has today unveiled a new report which aims to place the recovery of nature at the heart of recovery in the economy and society
Solar farm shock decision will destroy legally protected wildlife site
Friday 16th January, 2015
A decision to build on a legally protected area of lowland acid grassland – one of the largest areas of this flower-rich habitat in England – has been met with disbelief
Busy Bees Goes Wild: Exclusive learning enhancement programme designed for UK nurseries
Wednesday 7th January, 2015
Busy Bees has joined forces with The Wildlife Trusts to promote the great outdoors and the fabulous fun to be had exploring all that nature has to offer with children
Rare turtles discovered thousands of miles off course
Tuesday 23rd December, 2014
Two turtles have been washed ashore in the North West thousands of miles from their usual feeding grounds.
New sea creature discovery: ‘fairy’ found on north Devon coast
Tuesday 23rd December, 2014
A new variety of sea anemone has been found off the coast of north Devon. Just 6mm tall, the tiny animal was spotted by retired teacher Robert Durrant in Hele Bay, near Ilfracombe