There's a programme on BBC4 at 9pm on Wednesday 28th May 2025 called Cumbria's Red Squirrels.Cumbrian film-maker Terry Abraham show how people from Lakeland charities are working together to protect these beautiful animals - they are incredibly athletic! Volunteers, businesses and scientists are...
The Big River Watch results are in!Earlier this year – between the 25th of April and the 1st of May 2025 – 3,909 people in the UK and Ireland participated in the Big River Watch and submitted 2,261 surveys! The Big River Watch is a citizen science event which is held twice a...
There's exciting news from the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust!They are having their first River Week from 30th May to the 8th June 2025! The aim is to celebrate the chalk rivers there – these are rare and very special indeed. They are among the rarest freshwater habitats...
There's exciting news from the beautiful county of Cornwall and the Wildlife Trust there.The Wildlife Trust sent information about their appeal to bring beavers back to Cornwall. It seems that just 1.8% of Cornwall is wetland habitat - and yet in the past, huge areas of the country would have been...
Meet Shinga, pictured above. Shinga is an anti-poaching dog, trained by Dogs4Wildlife, who are actually based in beautiful Wales. She is a beautiful Belgian Mallinois, who knows how and when to bite, and has trained in tracking a scent; recently she chased a poacher 4.5 km to his home and barked...
National Hedgerow Week in 2025 is all about the Future of Hedgerows. Get involved and help the hedge! #NationalHedgerowWeekWe often see hedgerows, usually without really thinking about them - but how often do we appreciate how important they are to the British countryside and its wildlife? ...
It's Hedgehog Awareness Week from the 4th to the 10th of May. The week aims to highlights the problems that our beautiful hedgehogs face and how we can all help them.Hedgehogs are a very good indicator species. That means that if they are not coping well their habitat is not sufficient...
The Green Match Fund aims to support charities that are playing a vital role in tackling environmental issues. For example, charities could be: preserving ecosystems protecting endangered species promoting sustainable living Donations will make double the difference...
On BBC1 on Sunday 20th April 2025 at 7pm, there's a programme called Our Changing Planet: Restoring Our Rivers in what's the fourth year of a seven year project. Liz Bonnin and Ade Adepitan look into two efforts to restore rivers. In California, Liz Bonnin follows the largest...
Species of bear are…..(and bear in mind that there are subspecies of bear too)...Polar Bear in the Arctic Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia , Alaska – check out Polar Bears International to find out about polar bear and sea ice conservationGiant Pandas live in China’s rainforests of the...
The World Land Trust has a vision: "to protect the world’s most threatened habitats and species for the future". An international conservation charity, it protects the world's most biologically significant and threatened habitats - and it's Action Fund means it can move swiftly to save habitat...
Do you remember the song, What a wonderful world, sung by Louis Armstrong? We have a wonderful world - but humans are making more and more of a mess in a lot of it. And what a mess there is in Britain! Not everywhere, of course - but if you look at many of our roadsides, and our...
The 14th March is the International Day of Action for Rivers. Communities from all over the world unite with one voice to affirm that rivers are vital and need our protection. The day stresses that we all need access to clean, free-flowing water. And that communities have a basic...
Free the Bears is a really special charity based in Australia, and it was started by an inspirational woman called Dr Mary Hutton. Dr Hutton saw a television programme that would change her life - a part of it showed bears kept in a cage so that bear bile could be extracted from them. The footage of...
The 1st March is World Seagrass Day. The UN General Assembly proclaimed 1st March as World Seagrass Day back in 2022. It shows the urgent need to raise awareness of the critical need to take action to conserve seagrass. (Enhancing ecosystems is an important part of the UN’s...
The 27th February is International Polar Bear Day! It was founded by Polar Bears International and the day coincides with the time period when polar bears mothers and cubs are snug in their dens. Polar Bears International focuses on the need to protect denning families across the Arctic. The...
As I think many of you know from the news, there are changes ahead regarding US funding and reports are coming in of the impact the funding cuts are going to have. And conservation charities/non-profits will be affected. Let’s take an example. Rangers care for our planet’s...
The beautiful robin above (pic copyright Jan Meeus) is doing a shout-out for National Nestbox Week which runs from the 14th February to the 21st February every year. The week is a chance for us all to see if we can help our feathered friends by showing them a bit of love and giving them...
One of the events I look forward to most of all in the year is the World Land Trust's Big Match Fortnight. This October, the Big Match Fortnight 2024 is to Protect the Ecuadorian Amazon - and there's great news today - the target has been met! With all the terrible events taking place in...
Wildlife surveys give important data to conservation charities. Their results enable them to plan and work out what the most important things to do are to help a species. Over a period of time, they give an invaluable build up of data, showing trends and surprises or shocks. The...