Today Waitrose announce that they will be asking their suppliers of fruit, vegetables and flowers to avoid the use of neonicotinoid pesticides because of the harmful effects on bees and...
17/07/2013
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Plymouth school children help to get the City Buzzing
Pupils from St Peter’s Primary School in Stonehouse have helped Buglife to plant a meadow of wildflowers in Plymouth. The meadow will boost the City’s populations of bees, butterflies, hoverflies...
17/07/2013
Private letters shows pesticide companies desperate attempt to protect bee-killing pesticides
Late last week the Corporate Europe Observatory, a research group which works to improve the transparency in European policy making, published private letters from Syngenta and Bayer. The contents of...
17/07/2013
Buglife talks to Countryfile about toxic insecticides
On the 21st April, Buglife will be featured on Countryfile, the BBC1 one programme looking at rural affairs in Britain. Countryfile will be investigating the issues surrounding neonicotinoid pesticides, a...
17/07/2013
Wildlife presenter Nick Baker launches bug photography competition
Buglife launches a bug photography competition to encourage people to take a closer look at the bugs on their doorstep. Today Buglife launches a bug photography competition to encourage...
17/07/2013
The new State of Nature Report reveals that UK nature is in serious trouble
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...
17/07/2013
The hunt for the New Forest Cicada
Buglife is leading a hunt for the elusive New Forest Cicada. Thanks to funding administered by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the New Forest HLS Scheme Buglife experts and...
17/07/2013
Conserving globally threatened bugs on the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena
Buglife has launched a 3-year ‘Bugs on the Brink’ project, on the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena. Wildlife charity, Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, has launched a...
17/07/2013
Cairngorms legal ruling drives a bulldozer through our heritage and wildlife
Legal Appeal the Cairngorms Campaign and Other v The Cairngorms National Park Authority & Others finds in favour of construction. Following today’s ruling from the Court of Session, the Cairngorms...
17/07/2013
Under threat – Scottish brownfield bugs
The Scottish Government is reviewing national planning policy that guides all planning decisions. Help us make sure that sites valuable for invertebrates are recognised and protected from future development. Paragraph...
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