HS2 to ‘rewild’ 127 hectares around its 10-mile Chilterns tunnel
Area to be seeded with 70 grass and flower species and planted with native trees to create wood pasture
Tag: Wildlife
‘Looking for a flamingo?’: Iraq’s lucrative bird trafficking industry
When flamingos migrate to the southern Iraqi marshes in the winter months, the poachers are waiting – and so are the customers who want them to decorate their gardens
Geordie shore: the river Tyne’s ‘soft, gentle’ kittiwakes fly into trouble
The gull that ‘won’t eat your fish and chips’ is about to make its annual return to the UK – but a favourite nesting spot is under threat
‘Strange pale penguin’: rare yellow and white bird discovered among king penguins in Atlantic
Photographer says he won ‘nature’s lottery’ when he spotted unique bird among thousands of animals on a beach on the South Georgia islands
‘A cause for worry’: Mexico’s monarch butterflies drop by 26% in year
Butterflies had bad year after four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging and extreme climate conditions
Male lyrebirds resort to artful deception in the pursuit of procreation
Males use vocal trickery to fool females into thinking a threat is lurking, giving them time to sow their genetic seeds
Australian scientists warn urgent action needed to save 19 ‘collapsing’ ecosystems
A ‘confronting and sobering’ report details degradation of coral reefs, outback deserts, tropical savanna, Murray-Darling waterways, mangroves and forests
‘I ate 40kg of chocolate’: Yorkshire teacher, 21, on rowing solo across the Atlantic
Jasmine Harrison, the youngest woman to make the 3,000-mile journey alone, relished the freedom of doing it all by herself
Country diary: winter has been cruel to Orkney’s otters
Stenness, Orkney: One recently turned up on the doorstep of a local hotel, skinny and shivering
Magnets, vacuums and plant-based nets: the new fight to clean plastic from our seas
Microplastics are finding their way into the air, our drinking water, and even our placentas. Here is how some innovators are tackling them