Nature
Arab millionaire's plan for Kent airport meets mass opposition
Wildlife groups enraged by scheme for European travel hub, reports Michael McCarthy
Inside Nature
Beetles staging a comeback
Monday, 14 February 2011
A colony of one of England's rarest beetles has been found hiding out in Sherwood Forest, Government conservation agency Natural England said.
Kew scientists lead fight to save orchids from extinction
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Jonathan Owen: Global team to freeze seeds from 2,000 species.
Johannesburg at risk from acid lakes
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Rising toxic water levels from abandoned gold mines threaten the city and have blinded wild hippos.
Sale of state woodland on hold to allow more guarantees for public
Saturday, 12 February 2011
The sale of nearly 100,000 acres of publicly-owned woodlands was put on hold yesterday amid growing public anger over moves to privatise much of England's forest estate.
Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Why winter is a time to savour small pleasures
Friday, 11 February 2011
One of the compensations of the cold months in this country for anyone who enjoys the natural world is the great arrival from the north of wintering wildfowl, of wild ducks, wild swans, and above all, wild geese. Britain is a winter haven for hundreds of thousands of these waterbirds which breed in what the naturalist and writer Mark Cocker calls "the crown of the planet" – the halo of land around the Earth's northern latitudes, below the Arctic, from Canada, through Greenland, Iceland, Northern Scandinavia, Siberia, and back to Canada again.
The boar war: Barcelona aims to control its wildlife
Friday, 11 February 2011
Dale Fuchs: Catalonia became Spain's capital of animal rights last summer when the regional parliament banned bullfighting. Now it is struggling with a new animal issue: what to do about all those wild boars in a Barcelona park?
How hedgehogs make love: carefully
Thursday, 10 February 2011
An exhibition showing taxidermy featuring rabbits, hedgehogs and foxes mating is opening at the Natural History Museum in London tomorrow.
Six tiger reserve helpers kidnapped
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Heavily armed men have kidnapped six volunteers from WWF-India who were counting the tiger population at a reserve in India's remote north-east, an official from the conservation group said yesterday.
Flying tonight? Bats under threat
Monday, 7 February 2011
America's bats are dying in record numbers because of a deadly fungus that thrives where they sleep. Now there are signs that it could happen here
Rethink on sale of nature reserves
Monday, 7 February 2011
The Government is considering scrapping plans to sell many of England's nature reserves following a growing backlash against its proposed sale of all state-owned forests.
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