Feeling like you want to try and help in conservation but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you feel that conservation issues are happening far away and that you are powerless to do anything about them? Well I might have the answers for you! To try and help people find where their efforts are best placed, I will be posting about things that you can start doing almost immediately that can bring about meaningful change.
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Data from a long-running citizen science project shows that 90 per cent of adder populations are in decline.
We are pleased to provide this update from the Biological Records Centre (BRC). BRC has provided a focus for biological recording for over fifty years and works closely with more than 80 national recording schemes and societies. We hope you enjoy reading about some of our recent activities, built upon the unique and inspiring work of many naturalists who are committed to studying our flora and fauna.
An official watchdog is investigating five grouse-shooting estates for allegedly damaging the environment in a practice that they had pledged to stop.
Europe would still be able to feed its growing population even if it switched entirely to environmentally friendly approaches such as organic farming, according to 
For this year’s Wild About Gardens challenge, The Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are calling on people to put in a pond. From mini container ponds to larger sunken ponds, it’s THE garden feature that can make the biggest difference to wildlife.
The first ever IUCN Red List assessment has been conducted on all 124 wild coffee species, and the implications of these findings predict a concerning future for global coffee production.
The government’s conservation watchdog has issued licences to destroy 170,000 wild birds, eggs and nests, including rare and declining species such as curlews and swifts, in the past five years.
A fire has destroyed an internationally-renowned bird observatory on Fair Isle in Shetland.
It’s the miracle ingredient in everything from biscuits to shampoo. But our dependence on palm oil has devastating environmental consequences. Is it too late to break the habit?
Global temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest on record, US government scientists have confirmed, adding to a stretch of five years that are now collectively the hottest period since modern measurements began.
Lions in Namibia have turned to hunting seabirds and seals in the face of scarce food resources in the desert landscape, research has found.
At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change, according to a 
One of the UK’s most highly threatened and unusual beetles has been discovered in a number of new locations in the Cotswolds thanks to an innovative conservation scheme.
We are delighted to announce that the first issue of British & Irish Botany (B&IB), our replacement for New Journal of Botany, has now been published.
The UK has seen numbers plummeting, with a 53% decline between 1995 and 2016. To help them, we want to get 1,000 swift nestboxes put up before they arrive at the end of April. Can you help?
Scientists are scrambling to understand the sudden death of an estimated 20,000 guillemots off the Dutch coast, hundreds of which are washing up on the country’s shoreline.
Butterfly Conservation have published a series of guides about gardening for butterflies and moths.
The willow warbler is one of our smallest birds. Yet this delicate little creature performs an amazing feat of strength and endurance.
Renewable energy sources will be the world’s main source of power within two decades and are establishing a foothold in the global energy system faster than any fuel in history, according to BP.
An inspiring US campaign to restore the mighty chestnut to its eastern forests points the way to saving at-risk species in the UK
House Sparrows are in decline across the United Kingdom with numbers falling by 71% between 1977 and 2008. The reasons why are not yet fully understood but may be many and complex. The Sparrow Census, with your help, aims to gather valuable data to build a bigger, better, clearer picture of just what is happening with our House Sparrows than ever before!
As firefighters put out the last flames on Saddleworth Moor, here’s a reminder of why rewilding our moorlands can help to protect them from wildfire
Vulcan was tagged in Northumberland in the summer of 2018, along with over 30 more hen harriers in England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. Almost half of these birds barely had time to make their mark on the world, entering and leaving it almost in the same breath. Vulcan is the 11th tagged hen harrier to disappear in similar suspicious circumstances since August.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has added a new insect order (Embioptera) to UK fauna after finding and identifying webspinners at Garden Wisley, Surrey, last summer.
The BBC is hoping to make stars of the Earth’s planet kingdom with its next big natural history series, Green Planet.
Some of the country’s rarest and most threatened fungi will be better protected after Natural England announced the notification of two Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). 2019 marks the Government’s Year of Green Action, a year-long drive to help people to connect with, protect and enhance nature. This doubles the number of sites chosen for designations specifically for their fungi. These two new SSSIs provide protection for over 70 additional hectares for important and spectacular fungi, as well as nationally important grasslands and meadows.
Politicians and policymakers have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis facing the Earth, a report claims.
Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review
A coalition of investors is calling on McDonald’s, KFC, and other fast food suppliers to take swift action on climate change.
The impact of humans on our planet is now so large that many scientists are declaring a new phase of history. The old forces of nature…
A new global agreement to protect the seas should be a priority for the government to stop our seas becoming a “sewer”, according to a cross-party group of MPs.
Wild coffee species are under threat, with 60% of them facing possible extinction, including Arabica, the original of the world’s most popular form of coffee, researchers say.
China’s Longjiang-2 satellite has captured an incredible image featuring both the far side of the Moon and Earth in the background. The data was received by the Netherlands’ Dwingeloo Radio Telescope from an amateur radio transceiver built by a team at China’s Harbin University of Technology.
Allotments, weedy corners and fancy gardens are all urban havens for bees and other pollinators, a study has found.
The Winter Moth is one of the few moth species that is active in its adult stage over the winter months, and it is able to cope with freezing temperatures. The males and females look very different since the females only have short stubby wings and cannot fly. To attract a mate, the female will crawl up a tree trunk and give off pheromones. Great tits and blue tits feed their young on Winter Moth caterpillars and will time their breeding to coincide with the moth’s lifecycle.
Turnstones feeding on discarded chips in Hunstanton – a sign of desperation or just opportunism?
Conservationists have rediscovered Romeo’s species in the wild, including a female for him to mate with.
This brightly coloured small moth is most frequently pink with yellow patches and margins, and a fine purple border. However, almost entirely pink individuals with small yellow spots can occur.
It felt far too early in the year for an egg hunt – and much too cold to be surveying butterflies. Yet, when it comes to searching for evidence of one of Britain’s most elusive lepidoptera, the timing couldn’t be better.
There is a first picture that confirms it: a photo of a wolf puppy. It was also confirmed by the Office for Hunting and Fishin, Graubünden, after multiple hunters had spotted three wolf babies.
New research analyses the genetics of barn swallows and how their evolution was affected by human settlements.
The Marsh Fritillary is threatened, not only in the UK but across Europe, and is therefore the object of much conservation effort.
Arthropods, invertebrates including insects that have external skeletons, are declining at an alarming rate. While the tropics harbor the majority of arthropod species, little is known about trends in their abundance. We compared arthropod biomass in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo rainforest with data taken during the 1970s and found that biomass had fallen 10 to 60 times. Our analyses revealed synchronous declines in the lizards, frogs, and birds that eat arthropods. Over the past 30 years, forest temperatures have risen 2.0 °C, and our study indicates that climate warming is the driving force behind the collapse of the forest’s food web. If supported by further research, the impact of climate change on tropical ecosystems may be much greater than currently anticipated.
Claim that more intensive farming would allow rewilding of greater areas of countryside
Long strips of bright wildflowers are being planted through crop fields to boost the natural predators of pests and potentially cut pesticide spraying.
This interactive guide is a resource for anyone who wants to identify one of the 50 or so species of coniferous trees that can be found growing in a naturalised state in Britain or to learn about the features that can be used to identify them. The tools are currently optimised for large-screen formats. We are working on a suite of tools for small screens, e.g. mobile phones, for later in 2018.
Cases confirmed in Dorset and Essex with public urged to report sick or dead animals
Impressive new study shows that gardens and especially allotments support high pollinator diversity.
The Indonesian island has already banned plastic bags and straws, and now plans a $10 tourist tax to help clean up its beaches
The pace of ice loss has increased four-fold since 2003 as enormous glaciers are depositing ever larger chunks of ice into the Atlantic ocean, where it melts, causing sea levels to rise
Gardeners and garden designers like to use the shapes and forms of plants to give structure and texture to their planting, so that it is visually interesting throughout the year. However there is another important aspect to the three dimensional structure of garden plants, which is the help it can provide to wildlife.
HONG KONG — Officials in Hong Kong said on Friday that they had intercepted a shipment of nine tons of scales from pangolins, the largest seizure the city has ever made of products from one of the 
A fleet of five vessels will reportedly leave for the country’s coastal waters on 1 July
You can take anybody to see ‘nature’s greatest mimic’ – whether they are into flowers or not – because it’s full of wow factor. The bee orchid looks like a bee to attract pollinators, but in Britain they are self-pollinating so the deception is not required. The fact that the plant is also so rare and unusual adds to its appeal.
Britain’s 20 most endangered species have been identified for the first time by a host of wildlife and woodland charities, as Natural England has launched a campaign to bring them back from the brink of extinction.
A crucial but threatened habitat has been revitalised following decades of decline after conservationists decided to run a five-tonne tractor over it.
Sphagnum is probably the most underrated plant on Earth. This humble little moss makes up the bulk of our peat bogs and holds up to 20 times its weight in water. That makes boglands huge sponges that store water, slowing its flow and helping prevent flooding downstream.
The @FSCBioLinks Identikit has recently been developed so that ID resources can be used on mobile devices in the field – even where an internet connection is not available….
National NestBox Week is an established part of the ornithological calendar. Running for a week from 14 February each year, National Nest Box Week provides a welcome focus on nesting birds and encourages everyone to put up nest boxes in their local area in order to support the conservation of our breeding birds. National Nest Box Week was established and developed by BTO and Britain’s leading birdcare specialist Jacobi Jayne. It takes place at a time when tradition has it that small birds pair up ahead of the breeding season
Conservationists have released Galápagos land iguanas to Santiago Island as part of the effort to restore the island’s ecological health.