After a mammoth five-year search, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS)’s conservation breeding programme to boost numbers of the rare Pond Mud Snail has reached a major milestone. Five...
17/04/2023
After a mammoth five-year search, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS)’s conservation breeding programme to boost numbers of the rare Pond Mud Snail has reached a major milestone. Five...
17/04/2023
Buglife launches its citizen science project the Scottish Oil Beetle Search. As part of the new partnership programme, Species on the Edge, members of the public are asked to look...
13/04/2023
Golf course proposals would destroy part of irreplaceable protected site for nature A coalition of seven environmental organisations is once again asking for the public’s help to save the internationally...
30/03/2023
Conservation charity, Buglife, is raising concern about declining populations of crabs and lobsters, highlighting the lack of attention, protection and stewardship they are given, and calling for improved protection measures...
21/03/2023
On International Day of Action for Rivers, 207 organisations, including Buglife, are calling upon all EU Member States, Members of the European Parliament and the European Commission to #RestoreNature and...
14/03/2023
A European Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes nasicornis), native to continental Europe and widespread around the Mediterranean Sea, has been found in Durham, having hitched a ride in a potted plant. The...
28/02/2023
The State of the UK’s Butterflies 2022 report, released today by wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation, has revealed the alarming news that 80% of butterflies in the UK have declined since...
03/02/2023
Conservation charity Buglife are pleased to announce that a new B-Line has been mapped across London as they extend their UK-wide network of ‘insect superhighways’. B-Lines are designed to reconnect...
30/01/2023
Nature-lovers are being urged to help shed light on a rare winter sun-loving insect. The Northern February Red Stonefly (Brachyptera putata) was first found in the River Clyde in 1838,...
26/01/2023
The Government, for the third year running, has allowed for a banned bee-harming pesticide to be used by Sugar Beet farmers in England, threatening our precious pollinators In making the...
24/01/2023