11+ hour, 8+ min ago  (378+ words) An osprey at the centre of a love triangle last year has laid a fourth egg. Female CJ7 was filmed with her clutch of four eggs for the third year in a row on her nest near Wareham, Dorset shortly before…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (105+ words) BBC Ducklings reunited with mum after storm drain drama This is the heartwarming moment a mother duck was reunited with her eight ducklings after they fell into a storm drain in Milton Keynes. There were a few ruffled feathers when…...

11+ hour, 19+ min ago  (232+ words) An animal charity is hoping to open a new state-of-the art cheetah conservation centre by the end of the summer. The efforts of the Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden, Kent, are part of its campaign Born to Run, to help…...

20+ hour, 17+ min ago  (349+ words) A voluntary redundancy scheme has opened to all staff at a town's hospital amid financial pressures. Chiefs at Torbay Hospital said they have been open with colleagues about their "very real financial pressures", adding they had already taken "significant steps…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (652+ words) A record number of puffins have been counted for the second year running on a small island off Pembrokeshire. The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW), said 52, 019 puffins were documented on Skomer Island this year - 8, 000 more than in…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (335+ words) The University of Hull is leading a new project supporting the management of wetlands in Sri Lanka. The collaboration started on Monday and will run for two years after the university's Stewart Mottram, professor for literature and environment, was approached…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (288+ words) Brentford have set out to "protect and enhance" nature at the club and in the local area, in announcing their first-ever nature strategy. The London outfit have launched 'Connect by Our Nature', external which outlines how they plan to create…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (395+ words) Beavers recently released in East Sussex woodland have already made an "incredible" difference to its ecosystem, those responsible for the project have said. Five beavers, a mother and four kits, are relishing life after being transported from Scotland to Bowyers…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (396+ words) Wildlife campaigners have called on Network Rail to unblock nesting sites for swifts along a railway viaduct in Derbyshire. Protect the Wild said the body which owns, operates, maintains and develops Britain's railways "deliberately sealed" the nesting sites during the…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (438+ words) A rare fly that faced extinction could now outnumber the human population of the Cairngorms National Park - the last place in the UK where the insect survives, say conservationists. Seven years ago, just 50 pine hoverflies were thought to inhabit a…...