Take part in Buglife’s Citizen Science survey to help the rare Blue Ground Beetle in Devon and Cornwall. The third Monday in January has been labelled as Blue Monday, and...
20/01/2025
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Buglife and Kent Wildlife Trust Winner of 2024 Amazon Web Services IMAGINE Grant UK for Non-profits
Buglife and Kent Wildlife Trust will work with Amazon’s cloud computing arm towards the international launch of Bugs Matter – a citizen science app to monitor trends in insect populations. ...
07/01/2025
Complete ban on bee killing pesticides moves forward
Government sets out plans to end the use of toxic neonicotinoid pesticides that threaten vital pollinators Important step forward in delivering on election commitment to safeguarding bees, butterflies and the...
21/12/2024
First ever images captured of the elusive Bermuda Sac Spider
Buglife has received the first ever images of a little-known endemic spider in Bermuda, thanks to photographs submitted by local resident, Clare Russell. Confirmation of the species was made by...
03/12/2024
23 native species conservation projects shortlisted for the Great British Wildlife Restoration
Great British nature is in trouble. From polluted waterways to the threat of invasive species, Britain is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. And yet native...
14/11/2024
Great suck-cess! Scottish breeding programme sees first baby leeches born
A project to help restore Scotland’s population of Medicinal Leeches has welcomed the arrival of the first babies. Over the past month, twenty of the wriggly juveniles have successfully been...
04/11/2024
Wildlife charities and firefighters on education drive after fire destroys rare butterfly habitat
Wildlife conservationists and firefighters are joining forces to launch an education campaign for young people and the local community after a fire destroyed the habitat of a threatened butterfly. The...
03/11/2024
Domestic action needed to get UK back on track as international nature leader at COP16
New tracker on policy progress towards global biodiversity targets agreed at COP15 in 2022 shows English action in many areas is stalling or even went backwards in the past 2...
17/10/2024
New project gives Scotland’s rivers £1.8 million boost
An ambitious new conservation project that will create and restore river woodlands across Scotland is now underway, thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Riverwoods Blueprint Project...
14/10/2024
Open Letter to Defra: The Cost of Herbal Leys
Over 30 eNGOs, businesses, individuals and organisations led by Pasture for Life, have sent a letter to Defra Director General for Strategy and Water David Hill and Farming and Countryside...
10/10/2024