Whether it’s serving up a festive feast for your garden wildlife, taking a Boxing Day walk somewhere in nature to blow away the cobwebs, or making a New Year’s resolution to do something eco-friendly ...

Sir David Attenborough, now in his hundredth year, has stepped forward to champion the £30m Rothbury Appeal on its first ...

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is almost law – and without key protections that the House of Lords has just voted to ...

Thomas, Head of Corporate Partnerships at The Wildlife Trusts, looks at the incredible impact businesses can have on nature ...

The black garden ant is the familiar and abundant small ant that lives in gardens, but also turns up indoors searching for sugary food. In summer, winged adults, or 'flying ants', swarm and mate. The ...

The common name of the bloody-nosed beetle derives from its unusual defence mechanism: when threatened, it secretes a distasteful blood-red liquid from its mouth. This flightless beetle can be found ...

One of our largest and most impressive solitary wasps, the bee wolf digs a nest in sandy spots and hunts honey bees. The bee wolf (sometimes beewolf or bee-wolf) is a large solitary wasp, most often ...

The common carder bee is a fluffy, gingery bumble bee that can often be found in gardens and woods, and on farmland and heaths. It is a social bee, nesting in cavities, old birds' nests and mossy ...

With black-and-yellow markings, the hornet mimic hoverfly looks like its namesake, but is harmless to us. This mimicry helps to protect it from predators while it searches for nectar. At almost 2cm ...

The lesser stag beetle may be smaller than its famous cousin, but it is still a large beetle with large jaws. It can be seen in woods, parks and hedgerows during summer, and depends on dead wood. The ...

The application window has now passed and this programme is currently closed for new applications. We hope to be able to launch further funding rounds in 2026. The Green Community Grants Programme ...