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Conservation charity Buglife is celebrating some exciting news. Surveys for Britain’s rarest spider, the Horrid ground-weaver, have discovered a new population in Plymouth. And, for the first time ever, this...
10/02/2016
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New bugs discovered on remote Atlantic island
A number of invertebrates new to the tiny UK overseas territory of St Helena have been discovered by Liza Fowler, the Bugs on the Brink Educational Officer. Invertebrate expert Dr...
03/02/2016
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Buglife and Torbay Council celebrate new funding to get Torbay Buzzing!
Wildlife charity Buglife and Torbay Council are launching a new local nature initiative to help stop the decline in Torbay’s bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects, and create new wildlife-filled...
28/01/2016
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Wildlife charity ‘giving a dam’ about climate change and flood prevention
Wildlife charity Buglife Scotland has announced the installation of the 1000th dam in their ambitious Slamannan bog restoration project, which is helping to repair damaged lowland raised peat bogs in...
07/01/2016
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Big numbers for the tiny Tansy
The number of Tansy beetles found along the banks of the River Ouse has grown again in 2015, taking the estimated number of beetles to just over 24,000. The annual...
04/01/2016
It’s going to start buzzing in Birmingham
Biffa, Buglife, Birmingham, Bees, Bristol a lot of b’s all add up to Urban Buzz, an eight city project to create habitat for pollinators. Today Buglife are launching this ambitious...
08/12/2015
Bringing England’s wildlife ‘back from the brink’ of extinction
More than 100 species of England’s most threatened wildlife could be saved from extinction thanks to a new £4.6 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). HLF has approved...
04/12/2015
It’s going to start buzzing in York
Biffa, Buglife, bees and butterflies – that’s a lot of b’s all adding to the excitement of Urban Buzz, an eight city project to create habitat for pollinators. Today Buglife...
04/12/2015
It’s going to start buzzing in Plymouth
Urban Buzz is an eight city project to create habitat for pollinators. This ambitious new program of activity will work with local people in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester,...
04/12/2015
Call to ban bee-harming pesticides in Scotland
Leading environmental charities, the Scottish Wildlife Trust and Buglife, have joined forces to call for a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, which harm bees and wild pollinators, to be banned...
01/12/2015