As I set free a swallow from my sitting room, I feel a glad sense of the summer to come
I have less confidence in capturing orphaned and injured creatures than when I was a boy – but something had to be done
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“All the people they despise, we welcome joyfully”: the Chief Druid on overcoming extremism
Eimear Burke on the newfound popularity of Druidry’s diverse, nature-based spirituality.
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Penguin Town: the Netflix show that makes a mockery out of an endangered species
Have we really stooped so low that laughing at the animals we’ve driven to near-extinction is justifiable entertainment?
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BBC Radio 4’s Song of the Reed is a thoughtful drama about the natural world
Recorded on location at the RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, the programme is peppered with birdsong and the buzz of grasshoppers, giving it…
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In my newly wildlife-friendly garden, damselflies mate to a soundtrack of London traffic
There are more bees in the garden than I have ever seen before, more butterflies, more moths, more everything.
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England hopes for “normality” on 21 June – but for observers of the solstice the date has always been ripe with possibility
Perhaps a kind of delirious celebration will unfold too among the plants, which have had as strange and reluctant a…
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The butterfly effect
Two new books show how human agency is eroding the basic fabric of European wildlife.
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It is an ecological evil that hares are slaughtered by landowners seeking to protect their profits
This butchery is perpetrated because the animals are thought to carry a viral disease – but there is no hard evidence to support…
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