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Cold spring delays butterfly season

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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’

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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