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The Reform-controlled unitary authority of North Northants has rescinded the climate emergency declaration made five years ago, presumably because its reading of the science means that despite increasing floods and drought and heat waves affecting us all here in the right hand half of the county of spires and squires things are getting so much…

    Paul Bateman is Founder and Principal Instructor of the Independent Wildlife Crime Investigators & Trainers Association. He is a former National Park Ranger, has completed the National Police Wildlife Crime Officers Course and has particular practical experience relating to crimes against badgers and realistic mock wildlife-crime scenes. He is also Chair and Wildlife…

The data behind the report published by Wild Justice back in December 2024 – click here – are now available in a scientific journal. They tell a sorry tale of non-compliance with regulations and non-enforcement by local authorities. I’m beginning to think of this as The British Disease – agreeing something shouldn’t happen and then…

And so we bid farewell to another very good BBC wildlife series. Evolution is a tricky subject as the motion picture camera hasn’t been around for much of Earth’s history and so there is a lot of leaning on CGI (which wouldn’t have been available in David Attenborough’s days) and fossils. But ending up with…

I saw this advert at a rare visit to the cinema to see the Odyssey – so there was little escape.  

The fourth of the five episodes was about dolphins and intelligence. Chris is still wearing the same T-shirt(s) – I wonder how many of that model-T he has. The shape of the programme was the same as the others; start with a well-loved vertebrate (elephant, ostrich, bat (OK – partly loved in this case), dolphin…

One of Scotland’s rarest habitats is set for recovery thanks to a funding award granted this month to landscape-scale nature restoration partnership, Loch Abar Mòr. The £108,000 award from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund, managed by NatureScot, will go towards ‘Wee Trees Lochaber’, a project that will protect, enhance and expand mountain woodland across…

The RSPB issued the following stiff reminder of the law to media contacts earlier today: Urgent Media Alert: Drone and Helicopter activity over RSPB Minsmere wildfire For immediate attention of News Desks, Picture Desks and Aviation Teams We are aware of increased media interest in the fire at and around the Minsmere area in Suffolk….

Dr. James “Greg” Kuhns of Louisville has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in the management of soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat on working land. Dr. Kuhns, who owns forest and farmland in Bullitt County,…