Silverhairs Wildlife
Cold spring delays butterfly season
Butterflies are emerging weeks later than usual as a result of the cold spring, conservationists have said. Rare spring [...]
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Keep bees buzzing
As bee populations continue to dwindle due to bad weather, experts offer tips on how gardeners can help conserve [...]
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Public urged to join cygnet project
The public is being urged to tweet sightings of this spring’s first cygnets in a project to track one [...]
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Bird deaths prompt call on additive
A wildlife charity has renewed calls for oil additive PIB to be reclassified by the International Maritime Organisation to [...]
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Waitrose acts to help bee numbers
Waitrose is asking fruit, vegetable and flower suppliers to avoid using pesticides linked with bee declines. Farmers supplying the [...]
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Rare birds killed by cold weather
Rare birds have been found dead in the latest sign of wildlife struggling to cope with the cold spring, [...]
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Cranes building nests in Somerset
Common cranes have built nests for the first time for four centuries in southern England, conservationists have revealed. The [...]
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Land patches to be insect havens
Unloved patches of land are to be turned into havens for bees and other pollinating insects under plans unveiled [...]
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‘Alarming’ drop in UK bird numbers
The numbers of the UK’s most threatened and “incredibly precious” birds are continuing to fall after years of declining [...]
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2012 ‘catastrophic’ for butterflies
The UK’s butterflies suffered a “catastrophic” year in 2012, with most species declining in the face of one of [...]
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Cold threat to hibernating species
The late arrival of spring could hit wild creatures which hibernate such as bats and hedgehogs, conservationists have warned. [...]
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Boost for threatened water voles
Threatened water voles are being given a boost by the creation of new habitat across the country, the Canal [...]
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David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Silverhairs is delighted to announce our partnership with the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation is [...]
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Friends in high places with the red squirrel
Could one of our most secretive predators hold the key to saving the red squirrel from extinction? Liam Creedon [...]
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Wild insects ‘enhance crop yields’
Domesticated honey bees are not as good at pollinating crops as their wild cousins, research has shown. Scientists warned [...]
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