Buglife and ten other wildlife organisations have united together through Wildlife and Countryside Link to urge the public to apply pressure on their MEPs to vote for farming that supports...
16/07/2013
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Urgent need to raise funds for legal fight to save wildlife threatened by house building in the Cairngorms National Park
Wildlife charities, Buglife, Badenoch & Strathspey Conservation Group (BSCG), The Cairngorms Campaign and The Scottish Campaign for National Parks (SCNP) have just three days left to secure £30,000 to cover...
16/07/2013
Join the Scottish Oil beetle hunt
Join the Scottish oil beetle hunt in 2013! Black oil beetles, Violet oil beetles and very rare Short-necked oil beetles can all be found in Scotland from March through to...
16/07/2013
The world’s greatest museum of art and design gets a new roof for wildlife
Wildlife charity Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, are due to start work on a Living Roof project at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in central London this spring....
16/07/2013
Appeal for sightings of White-clawed crayfish on Exmoor
Buglife and Exmoor National Park Authority are appealing for sightings of White-clawed crayfish on Exmoor The two organisations are working together on a new project to map the species on...
12/07/2013
MSPs champion bugs under threat
Today MSPs are being asked by Scottish Environment to select a threatened species to champion. The species list includes a number of invertebrate species chosen by Buglife. Wildlife organisations put...
14/03/2013
Dutch Parliament calls for European suspension on dangerous pesticides
Yesterday, the Dutch Parliament called for a complete suspension on the use of Neonicotinoids. This follows a recent report by the European Food Safety Authority highlighting the insecticides as ‘high...
25/01/2013
Wildlife charity takes legal action over bee killing pesticides
Wildlife charity, Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust is asking Defra to justify their decision to allow the use of bee killing pesticides or face a court case. Yesterday Buglife,...
14/11/2012
European Commission proposes partial ban on bee poisoning Neonicotinoid insecticides
Today, the European Commission proposed a substantial ban on three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. They intend to ban use on crops that are ‘attractive to bees’, such as...
14/03/2012
