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Buglife has built miniature thatched cottages at the edges of a farmer's field in Essex, in an attempt to save the rare Scarlet malachite beetle. This bright red and metallic...

14/07/2014

In response to Buglife investigations the NFU has retracted a number of misleading claims it has made about the impacts of the neonicotinoid ban on Oilseed rape yields, but continues...

10/07/2014

Following a week of intense public activity in defence of our bees and pollinators, including demonstrations outside Downing Street, public petitions and letters to ministers, Syngenta have withdrawn their application...

04/07/2014

NFU vice-president Guy Smith has publically claimed that farmers in Sweden have reported a 70 per cent loss in spring oil seed rape yields.  Similar claims appear on the NFU...

01/07/2014

Buglife are deeply concerned by news that UK researchers are trialling a GM wheat that ‘cries wolf’, sending out a constant chemical help signal to ladybirds and other predators, a...

25/06/2014

The conclusions of a new meta-analysis of the systemic pesticides neonicotinoids and fipronil (neonics) confirm that they are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial invertebrate species and...

24/06/2014

Wildlife and countryside charities are very concerned that proposals in the Criminal Courts and Justice Bill being debated in the House of Commons will make it even harder than it...

16/06/2014

Wildlife Charity Buglife is appalled by George Osborne’s lack of regard for brownfield wildlife.  At Mansion House last night Osborne said he was going to unleash an ‘urban planning revolution’...

13/06/2014

A rare flightless beetle found in only two locations in the UK has been counted in abundance on the Isle of Coll. RSPB Scotland and Buglife researchers visiting the island...

11/06/2014

People around the UK are being urged to take part in the first Great British Bee Count, which starts today (Tuesday 10 June 2014) and runs until the end of...

10/06/2014