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A new deal between the RSPB and ethical banking group, Triodos Bank, has helped install solar panels in seven nature reserves. The new panels aim to provide 10% of the RSPB’s total annual...
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I pull off the highest road in Yorkshire at the somewhat optimistically named Viewpoint. I’m almost 2,000 feet above sea level – high above Wharfedale on one side and Wensleydale on the other,...
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It’s the finest view in England, according to the author James Herriot. Sutton Bank is a breathtakingly dramatic escarpment in the North York Moors National Park, towering over the Vales of York and...
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Q: Are there any wild deer on the Isle of Wight? A: Yes, deer of various species have been seen in many parts of the island Q: Are deer native to the Isle...
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With Orca Watch just days away the staff of the Sea Watch Foundation is waiting in anticipation to start conducting watches and collect records of the orcas passing through the Pentland Firth. Three...
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RSPB’s innovative citizen science photography project returns The RSPB’s ground-breaking project Puffarazzi is back and once again needs the public’s help to find out more about one of our best loved seabirds. As...
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The tent filled with a pre-dawn light. That cool blue that’s just light enough to encourage you to open your eyes. The type of light that my usual thick curtains shut out. It...
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By David Richardson, University of East Anglia and Martijn Hammers, University of Groningen Death is, unfortunately, an inevitable consequence of life. In most animals growing old is accompanied by progressive deterioration in health...
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Yesterday Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham MSP outlined the governments plans for the new deposit return scheme coming to Scotland. For the last few years campaigns such...
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It’s 4.42am on a Sunday morning in May, it’s 3 degrees Celsius and I’m strapping on my head torch before plunging into a West Yorkshire wood. I’ve explored these footpaths hundreds of times...
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