Butterfly survey provides conservation platform

997996731 w83eJ S Butterfly survey provides conservation platformThe results of one of the biggest ever surveys of the UK’s butterfly population have been announced. The big butterfly count organised by the charity Butterfly Conservation in partnership with Marks & Spencer was carried out by members of the public and has been based on a staggering 187,000 individual sightings.

It reveals the top ten

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Osprey couple back at Kielder

831736488 kovhv S Osprey couple back at KielderKielder Water & Forest Park’s record breaking ospreys are a couple once again!

The Kielder Partnership can reveal that the female bird – who mothered three chicks last year, the first born in the North East of England for at least 200 years – has returned to the same nest she used last year, where she

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