Like half of UK butterflies and moths, the high brown fritillary is a specialist feeder.
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Climate change puts pressure on British butterflies and moths - sometimes pushing them to the edges of their geographical range or shifting the timing of their life cycle so they can’t feed.
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Research has revealed how British otters may have been able to recover from species loss in the 1950s with the help of otters from Asia.
A Curious eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).
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New research suggests the gut bacteria of red and grey squirrels differ significantly, potentially explaining the decline of the native red and the success of its grey counterpart.
The greater horseshoe bat is one of the UK’s 18 bat species.
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Maths plays a crucial role in new research which finds that bats “leapfrog” their way home at night.
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North American ornithologists are seeking to replace all bird species named after people - but what should they be called instead?
There are very few wildcats like this one left in their natural habitat in Scotland.
Mark Bridger
And a recent history of wildcat hybridisation.
The extinction of the wolf in Britain was widely celebrated as an achievement towards the creation of a more civilised world.
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I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
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Their drawings did not reflect the make up of the natural world.
There have been arguments about the future of red deer on the Scottish island of South Uist.
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There are arguments over the future of red deer on the Scottish island of South Uist but archaeological expertise can help people live alongside wild animals.
The Eurasian bittern in its favoured wetland habitat.
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From a low of 11 males in 1997, Britain now has 228 booming bitterns at 103 sites nationwide.
The small and unassuming Steatoda nobilis .
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Once confined to the Canary Islands, noble false widow spiders are casting their web worldwide.
A solar farm in Bavaria, Germany.
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Nestled among farmland, solar farms can be a refuge for wildlife.
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Garden surveys reveal what makes a house a home for Britain’s favourite mammal.
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These wetland birds were eradicated in the 17th century, but breeding pairs returned in 1979.
Wetlands created by beavers, like this one in Amherst, Massachusetts, store floodwaters and provide habitat for animals and birds.
Christine Hatch
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.
Cold-water coral reefs occur at greater depths than their tropical equivalents.
Sebastian Hennige
Cold-water corals live in the Atlantic’s frigid depths – and the UK is a stronghold for them.
A Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx ) in a woodland in the Czech Republic.
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A new study suggests lynxes were in Britain as recently as the 18th century.
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“Will it become a wood again, how long will it take, which species will be in it?”
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Eating bird food was also linked to a nearly four-fold increase in their breeding densities.
A healthy seagrass meadow outside of Porthdinllaen harbour, North Wales.
Richard Unsworth
Seagrass meadows are a powerful ally in the effort to slow climate change and reverse wildlife losses.