Richard Fox discusses a recent study into the importance of trees outside woods for farmland butterflies.Intensive agriculture is associated with much lower levels of wildlife than more extensively-ma...

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The key to balancing future food and fuel needs with ambitious EU targets to restore habitats and protect threatened species is good policy and integrated planning, with burdens shared across member s...

Nature is not a “blocker” to delivering new housing, but rather a necessity for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods, MPs argue in a report published today.

Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, an inquiry by MPs has found, in direct conflict with claims made by ministers. Toby Perkins, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, said nature was being scapegoated, and that rather than being a block to growth, it was necessary for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods. Continue reading...

Ancient woodlands aren’t a blocker. Wildlife isn’t a hindrance. Chalk streams aren’t anti-growth. Our wildlife is on the brink - one in six species faces extinction. These species help define who we are as a nation - we won’t get a second chance to save them. https://t.co/J0QrcZVX1y

I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is set to return to the House of Commons this week (week commencing 10 Nov). There is an opportunity to limit the damage the Bill will have but we need everyone to...

Another week and another pile of shot and dumped gamebirds. Thanks to the blog reader who sent in this photo of a pile of dead, shot Pheasants he found yesterday, dumped on the road (B3081) running…

About BirdTrackBirdTrack allows volunteers to store and manage their own personal bird records, and uses these to support species conservation at local, regional, national and international scales.

How to report dead wild birds.

Local fungus groups affiliated with the British Mycological Society make up the Recording Network

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91