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A slightly different one this time! It’s finally the time of year where elderflower is in full bloom. On my morning walk, I came across an elderflower bush so I decided to take advantage of these beautiful flowers and made cordial! I made two differe

Now that I am doing both gardening AND offering holistic therapy from my outdoor room (recently built conservatory),it feels like I have truly united growing and healing in one space. Just three weeks to go now til I move everything into the space an

Long spells of warm summer sunshine provided a boost for beleaguered butterflies with four times as many recorded during this year’s Big Butterfly Count than in 2012.

A record-breaking 46,000 people took part counting more than 830,000 butterflies an

Grassland butterflies have declined dramatically between 1990 and 2011. This has been caused by intensifying agriculture and a failure to properly manage grassland ecosystems, according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA).

The fall

The warm start to July has given many species a much needed boost and Butterfly Conservation is calling for nature lovers everywhere to take part in the Big Butterfly Count to help assess the well being of UK butterflies.

This spring, the coldest for

Cuts to the environment budget announced in Wednesday's spending review prove the need for a radical rethink on how we protect our threatened wildlife, the RSPB has said.

Alongside several other Government departments, the Department for Environment,

The RSPB has launched the Giving Nature a Home campaign as it urges the nation to provide a place for wildlife in their own gardens and outside spaces.

The campaign comes a month after 25 wildlife organisations, including the RSPB, released the State

The European Commission has adopted a new strategy for encouraging the use of green infrastructure, and for ensuring that the enhancement of natural processes becomes a systematic part of spatial planning.

Green Infrastructure is a tried and tested t

This week will see the opening of a new nature reserve that has been named after the man who led the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust for many years.

The reserve is to be named Tasker’s Meadow as a tribute to the trust’s former chief executive, Andy Task

A detailed report into UK wildlife has found that many species are struggling and that one in three have halved in number in the past half century.

The RSPB was joined by 25 conservation groups including the Wildlife Trusts, the Mammal Society, Bugli