Patrick Barkham

Where are all the butterflies? After 10 years of wilding, my garden has never been fuller of nectar, long grass and plants such as ivy and buckthorn , which are caterpillar food plants for certain species.

When jurors are called to court, they are required to swear on a holy book or make a secular promise to tell the truth.

The chough, a charismatic cliff-dwelling corvid, has bred in Kent for the first time in two centuries.

Infrastructure essential to decarbonise electricity generation by 2030 met with resistance by those affected

It was a much-loved endangered species that desperately needed saving, but it was still a surprise when the Norfolk Wildlife Trust stepped in to revive it.

‘Beaver bombing’ increasing because of failure by successive governments to approve releases, say experts

They are eco marvels but they are fast disappearing. Sophie Hunter explains why she is using film, music, a few tonnes of salt and a reimagined wife of Lot to sound the alarm

More than 1,200 hectares of Cumbrian forest will be transformed into England’s highest nature reserve

Enthusiasts discovered Norfolk snout, thought to have died out in the UK in 1971, in their garden

The Norfolk snout was always a rare moth in Britain. By the late 1960s, populations of this small beige moth with a distinctive protuberant “nose” had dwindled to just one site – a working quarry in north-west Norfolk.