Samantha Stocks

Sam is a freelance writer and editor with a passion for wildlife and the outdoors.

Recent articles by Samantha Stocks

Conservation volunteers at MCS beach clean 2019, Stevenston (1).jpg

Great British Beach Clean highlights need for Deposit Return Scheme

Beaver by water

Beavers to be reintroduced in southern England

Barn owl in flight

Noise pollution found to threaten the survival of many species

Hazel dormouse

Britain’s dormouse population more than halved since 2000, finds study

Boys-playing-outdoors

Children benefit from daily interaction with nature, finds study

Common or Hazel Dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius

Public urged to help endangered dormice as winter approaches

Kitchen tap with plants

Film series highlights ‘small but impactful’ changes people can make to protect the environment

The Allerton Oak stands in Liverpool's Calderstones Park. ©Jill Jennings/Woodland Trust

Liverpool’s Allerton Oak named England’s Tree of the Year

Beach at sunrise

Lonely Planet names England one of the world’s top countries for 2020

Stream through Horner Wood, Holnicote Estate, Somerset. One of the largest and most beautiful ancient oak woods in Britain, a National Nature Reserve nestled on the Holnicote estate.

Pioneering project aims to return rivers to their natural paths

Red squirrel in autumn

Red squirrels move further into the Highlands thanks to reintroduction project

Wood warbler on branch

Birds benefitting from climate change today may struggle tomorrow

Pine marten in woodlands

Pine martens reintroduced to Forest of Dean

Badger in bluebells

Badger cull could be counterproductive, new study reveals