The new ground-breaking State of Nature Report launched today on the International Day for Biological Diversity. 25 wildlife organisations, including Buglife, have compiled a stock take of our native species that reveals that 2 out of 3 insects are declining.

Buglife is recruiting for a wildlife conservation intern with a background in conservation and ecology to start summer 2013.

Buglife launches a bug photography competition to encourage people to take a closer look at the bugs on their doorstep.

Today Member States agreed on a new piece of legislation restricting the use of dangerous pesticides called neonicotinoids (neonics). The ban will start to come into effect later this year, and will restrict the use of the three most common neonics, imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam on crops which are ‘attractive to bees’ and on cereals planted in the summer which cause dust clouds of toxic chemicals to be released.

The seventh issue (volume 4, issue 1) of Scottish Invertebrate News is available now! This spring edition is packed full of new discoveries, articles and events.