Beavers in the news
It’s been a noisy week for beavers in the media, but still not a lot of clarity about what their future will be.
Photo, David Tipling/2020Vision
It’s been a noisy week for beavers in the media, but still not a lot of clarity about what their future will be.
UK government allows ‘emergency’ use of banned bee-harming pesticide just days after EU tightens protections
Pinhoe View Hospital in Exeter provides care across two wards for people who have enduring mental health problems. Each ward at the hospital has access to its own garden. Through Nextdoor Nature…
Badger. Strong defiant, paternal, the only animal that the weasels and stoats won’t dare to cross. It is badger who the other animals turn to when things go wrong, the reluctant leader who steps…
It’s always intrigued me that Kenneth Grahame chose Toad as his most impulsive, charismatic and rumbustious character. An adrenaline junky, desperate to be loved and the antithesis of Ratty’s…
It’s a crisp, early spring morning of watery sun and rippling bird song. The April greens are at their sharpest, the leaves of every plant impossibly lush. The flowers pushing themselves up among…
Ratty. Sensible, dependable, loyal, comfortable in his own skin, writes Harry Barton, Devon Wildlife Trust's CEO. He is the character who gives the river in Wind in the Willows its sense of…
A beaver who arrived at a specialist RSPCA wildlife centre collapsed and covered in mud after being rescued from a muddy estuary is now thriving after rehabilitation and release.
On Valentines Day 2020, while couples across the country were celebrating the passing of another year together, something momentous quietly happened in east Devon. The five year River Otter…
This month the international conference on climate change, COP26, starts. For two weeks, the World’s leaders will huddle together to discuss once again how to tackle what is possibly the greatest…
The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021…