Wildlife stories

Lesser spotted woodpecker countryfile podcast

Spring in the saltmarsh and Celtic rainforest – plus an special encounter with our rarest woodpecker

A fledgling House Sparrow, The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

16 of the UK’s top garden bird species suffer decline, finds Big Garden Birdwatch 2021

Write what you see and feel in natural surroundings

Enter BBC Countryfile Magazine New Nature Writer of the Year Competition 2021

A Eurasian beaver male swimming in a pond in a large woodland enclosure soon after release at National Trust South Downs. ©National Trust

National Trust reintroduces beavers to southeast England

Orange-tip. /Credit: Ian H Leach/Butterfly Conservation

Last year was ‘good’ for butterflies according to survey results

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British badger guide: natural habitat, diet and how to spot

Common Crane, RSPB

Wildlife stories

Breeding success for common cranes in 2020

Poll Dorset sheep, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire

Guide to the farming calendar: a year in the life of a British farmer

Deer rut

Britain’s best autumn wildlife spectacles

Pollution on the Afon Llynfi

Thousands of fish killed in devastating pollution incident on Welsh river

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Nightingale guide: species facts and how Britain’s songbird is under threat

Horse Close, Buttermere, Lake District.

Wildlife stories

Rise in fly-camping and campervan numbers puts nature at risk

Girl writing outside. Credit/ Siriwat Nakha/EyeEm/Getty

Children’s nature writing competition winners revealed

Daisie field in the gardens at Eyam Hall and Craft Centre, Derbyshire

Wildlife stories

Interest in nature grows during coronavirus pandemic

Woodland of Cannock Chase, England

World’s first forest soundmap project calls for participants