How a smartphone app is helping save rare plants
...discovering these beautiful plants - as well as the bees, butterflies and birds that areas managed for arable plants support. The management advice and guidance in the app offers practical...
Biodiversity
Stalking tigers on Surrey heathland
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Sarah Bunce, Posted on:
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Biodiversity, Protected sites and species, Wildlife
In the wilderness of Surrey, I went on a tiger hunt. A hunt for tiger beetles, that is. I work for Natural England as a warden on the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area. The heath tiger beetle should be widespread on my patch, but is sadly in massive decline.
Fluctuating fortunes in a year of great bird books
...whose predatory habits can cause controversy. He began studying the buzzard on Dartmoor back in the 1950s when it was very much less common and widespread than it is today....