Samantha Stocks

The Whitley Awards celebrate the champions of grassroots wildlife conservation. Learn more about this year's seven winning conservationists and find out about their inspiring work.

Learn more about the People’s Trust for Endangered Species’ Living With Mammals survey, and help to shed light on the state of the UK’s mammals.

A new report reveals that wildlife fared well on RSPB reserves last year, in spite of Covid-19 restrictions.

While 2020 was a turbulent year for many of us, how did the nation’s wildlife fare? The National Trust investigated how both lockdown and unpredictable weather affected nature in the UK, revealing which species did well, and which suffered.

A concerning amount of PPE litter was found during this year’s Great British Beach Clean.

Once thought to be extinct, one of Britain’s largest spiders has been seen in the country again for the first time in more than 25 years.

A new study has revealed that social distancing comes naturally to vampire bats when they feel unwell.

While there are fewer than 20 Loa water frogs left in the world, the hatching of 200 tadpoles at the National Zoo of Chile gives the species a chance of a future in the wild.

The UK’s largest woodland conservation charity launches The Big Climate Fightback and urges the nation to take action to tackle climate change.

A number of rare and endangered reptiles found only on the islands of Mauritius have been rescued from a catastrophic oil spill, and rehomed with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey.

A shipment of eight endangered African grey parrots intended for the illegal wildlife market has been seized in Cameroon.

The astonishing new discovery, found fossilised in amber in Myanmar, has been hailed as a ‘spectacular find’ by scientists.

The UK’s largest ever project to bring back the globally endangered large blue butterfly has been hailed a success, with the blues successfully breeding in the first year of their reintroduction on a Gloucestershire common.

Timber Festival organisers are encouraging people across the world to contribute audio recordings to create the world’s first forest ‘soundmap’.

Wildlife Trusts across the country have seen damage to reserves caused by an influx of visitors in the wake of lockdown restrictions easing.

Researchers have found that heather nectar provides a natural medicine that could protect wild bumblebees from disease, helping to prevent their decline.

The past 40 years has seen the common blue butterfly struggling in the UK, but now experts reveal that it could be making a comeback.

In a first for UK marine conservation, underwater cameras have been used to observe the behaviour of basking sharks in the Inner Hebrides.

The census found 2,967 wild tigers across India in 2018, compared with 2,226 in 2014 — an increase of more than 30 per cent.

The American pocket shark is the only known specimen of its kind to have ever been found.

The National Lottery has given £4 million to fund a new scheme aimed at reversing the decline of Europe’s most at-risk habitat.

Find out why play is so much more than just fun and games for animals across the natural world, in this new two-part documentary.

Readers of BBC Wildlife are offered a special discount code for London’s first major wildlife festival.