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

Horse Close, Buttermere, Lake District.

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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

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Interest in nature grows during coronavirus pandemic

Woodland of Cannock Chase, England

World’s first forest soundmap project calls for participants

Fire at the closed Charnwood Lodge Nature Reserve

Nature reserves damaged as lockdown restrictions ease

Puffin on the Farne Islands

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Puffin numbers remain strong on Farne Islands

Capercaillie (tetrao urogallus) male displaying with open tail feathers

Guide to Britain’s rarest birds: how to identify and where to see them

Badger and sett

Surge in wildlife crime and fly-tipping during coronavirus lockdown

Narrow roadway with flower verges in Cornwall, England

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Guide to Britain’s road verges: history, why they are important and threats

Short-necked oil beetle (c) Annie Haycock

Rare beetle rediscovered in Wales

Basking Shark Underwater Feeding

Guide to basking sharks: facts about the species and where to see them in the UK

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

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) adult female, antlers in velvet, walking across upland moor, Cairngorms, Scotland, UK, August.

British reindeer guide: species facts and where to see in the UK