The sheer complexity of nature is hard - if not impossible - for us to fathom. Take one particularly influential species out of an...

Britain is dotted with isolated islands of habitat. They cling to myriad slopes and precipices often in the most inaccessible spots in...

To intervene, or not. A quandary that is increasingly tying knots in the minds of conservationists, ecologists and biologists as the...

When nature is left to do its own thing, it can surprise us. Conventional wisdom tells us that certain species belong to certain...

Recent quarrels on social media have highlighted something that's bothered me for a while now: there's an apparent incompatibility...

Britain's ecology contains a cavernous void. A space that's remained unfilled for almost 300 years. Scotland is missing a large carnivore...

Some of the ‘wild’ has been removed from rewilding – in the UK and Continental Europe at least. Fuelled by a misrepresentation of its...

There’s an insidious killer lurking in our seas. It kills indiscriminately. Whales, porpoises, dolphins, seals, sea lions, sharks,...