July is really a month for insects – butterflies and moths, dragonflies and damselflies. I’m thrilled to have seen a large skipper butterfly in my garden for the first time, and a meadow…

June is the beginning of proper Summer for me. The rush of Spring, with all the new arrivals and changes, is over and the season is settling into full, burgeoning life.

Guest writer, John Box explains the dangers of climate change and the desperate need for people to take more action now.

May is a month of blooming. The early signs of spring are past, gone for another year, but May brings a fullness of new growth, with everything seeming to be hurrying along towards summer.

Regenerative Agriculture is now the buzz word in the farming world. It emerged from the term ‘sustainable intensification’ the implication being that activities were sustained or maintained as…

The new natural history GCSE will tackle the biggest issue of our time – the loss of nature and our connection to it

The calls of ground nesting birds such as curlew and skylark are evocative of the countryside in Spring. But their numbers are in dramatic decline and their nesting grounds are vulnerable to…

Our two-minute survey can score your garden and offer ideas to make it even better for wildlife, but why is this so important?

April’s here, and spring is ‘bustin’ out all over’. Trees are coming into leaf with a lovely haze of freshest green on the birches and willows, cherry trees are in blossom and the sun is bringing…

I have been obsessed by insects for all of my life; they are amazing, often beautiful, and with fascinating, peculiar lives.