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If there’s one thing that our garden has in abundance it is Ivy. This is a view, from the bathroom, of the mature Ivy covering the shed outside. Looking back from the other side of that archway looks like this (on a sunny day last week); And there is plenty more at the end of…

Lee Schofield is senior site manager at RSPB Haweswater, where partnership work with landowner United Utilities is aiming to find a balance between large-scale ecological restoration and hill farming in the Lake District National Park. He is also a nature writer, working on his first book which will be published by Penguin/Transworld in 2022. Follow…

Tim writes: while walking on the Peak District moors this morning I came across some Star Jelly, which I have only seen once or twice before. I took this photograph on my phone but I thought it was too interesting to keep to myself. I hope you agree. So what is Star Jelly? Well it also…

I’ve reviewed over 40 books here this year – a record. Here’s where I reveal my shortlist of eight books which might have been my book of the year, and then the two of them, because I gave up trying to choose between them, that are my joint Books of 2020. I’ll give you my…

In response to the Prime Minister’s 10-Point Plan, Beccy Speight, chief executive of the RSPB, said: “We are facing a nature and climate emergency, so must take this opportunity to build back better. While we welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement of new money, new national park designations and new landscape plans, in truth this barely…