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We could all do more to help with decreasing insect populations, but it can be tricky to know exactly what makes a difference and what doesn’t. Nicky Roeber, Online Horticultural...

25/03/2019

Craig Macadam, Buglife's Conservation Director responding to the recent report on insect declines in an article that first appeared on the CNN website Insect populations are in crisis. A recent...

12/02/2019

A blog from Buglife’s Director of Conservation Craig Macadam, first published by Environment Link The introduction of the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in 1991 and the Water Framework...

08/11/2018

This guest article has been written by Emma Homan who is an Educational Copywriter for Pentagon Play Have you ever thought about setting up a biodiversity project in your school?...

14/06/2018

I have. No, not the long-necked, hump-backed star of so many grainy black and white photographs. I’m talking about a small predatory flatworm that lives deep in the waters of...

27/03/2018

Anyone who has visited Coul Links will know how magical a place it is. Golden sands, rolling dunes, wildflowers and wetlands alive with wildlife. This site is one of the...

17/10/2017

In shutting the door on Europe, let us not open it wide to damaging non-native species. Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS) are undoubtedly one of the greatest threats to biodiversity throughout...

03/10/2017

In shutting the door on Europe, let us not open it wide to damaging non-native species. Japanese knotweed, Floating pennywort, Chinese mitten crab, Zebra mussel, Asian hornet, Grey squirrel –...

20/07/2017

This guest blog is provided by Chris Rawlings an Environmental Science graduate who runs a small marketing and design agency based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. One day on a rare...

04/07/2017