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More sightings may be a positive sign for growing population but also indicative of effect of climate change

Ballykinlar, County Down: Down on the shore, plover and redshank are going about their business, bobbing as they go to get a clearer view of their surroundings

The Americas is a nature documentary series narrated by Tom Hanks featuring wildlife from across the American continents.

Office for Environmental Protection calls for urgent action after finding government is falling short on most targets

Red squirrels have been replaced over a large part of Great Britain by the non-native grey squirrel, introduced from North America in the late 19th century. Today, the British population of red squirrels (approximately 287,000) is mostly restricted to Scotland, northern England and some offshore islands.

Conservationists at RSPB Wallasea Island in Essex will create a six-hectare lagoon on newly purchased land.

For more than 500 years, no lynx had roamed the British countryside. That changed with the recent release of four of these large cats in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.

Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through

New species of funnel-web spider found in Newcastle has been dubbed ‘Big Boy’