Hello and welcome to another Inner Forth blog! Firstly, exciting bird news, we have had three (yes three!!) little egrets visiting our Skinflats reserve over the past week which has been fantastic! If you have not seen one before, it is a small and very...

Hello Everybody! We have a new blogger today, introducing....... actually I will let him do that himself.....

With the first week of work now under my belt, it seems the right time to settle in and introduce myself - Chris Knowles, ecology assistant to...

Hello! The Living Loch Leven blog has a few cobwebs to dust off today, but don’t worry we are interested in all of nature so I’m not brushing them too far. Just far enough to update you on all things Loch Leven.

So, it’s great to be here...

Sammy Fraser RSPB Brecks Community Engagement Officer writes.....

I was lucky enough to grow up in a village tucked away in the middle of Dartmoor, and from a young age I remember being interested in nature whether it was the birds in our garden, dippers...

Jonathan Hall – the RSPB's UK Overseas Territories Officer brings us some fantastic news in this guest blog: Some great news to share from the UK Overseas Territory of Ascension Island, located in the tropical South Atlantic half-way between...

I know, I know, its been a few months since my last post and to answer your questions there has been no extended holiday to the Bahamas (although if anyone is in need of a travel companion....) and we have not been spending our days playing board games...

Dear Minister

Congratulations on your promotion as Minister of State for Housing and Planning at the Department of Communities and Local Government.

We haven’t met, but our paths literally crossed the other week when you gave evidence to the Communities...

Here is a guest blog by RSPB's Head of Environmental Research, Dr Richard Bradbury A recent RSPB report highlighted just what an astonishing array of biodiversity is to be found on the UKs Overseas Territories. Montserrat is one of these treasure...

Paul Outhwaite has been leading our campaign tackle the threat of a new airport in the Thames estuary ... here he reflects on the latest output from the Airports Commission:

As nails in coffins go the reports from the Airports Commission looking at the...

Earlier this year I spent a few hours in the sun watching intently as a male hen harrier brought food back to his mate at their nest . The guys around me were enjoying the weather but were preparing for a long shift into the cold of the night and having...

News, last week, that Highland Council had voted 12 to 3 to reject a proposal by SSE to construct a windfarm at Strathy South against the recommendations of their own officers was a massive victory for nature and for common sense. The peatlands of the...

Last Friday night I slept in a tent roughly where the terminal of the ‘Cliffe airport’ would have been. That was the airport proposal of the early years of this century that was seen off by campaigning and the general realisation that it was...

Our big picture for the Sherwood Forest Futurescape is landscape-scale conservation, which is basically the principles of making existing sites better and bigger, creating new sites, and connecting them all together. Within a big picture there are finer...

During the past couple of years I’ve been working with 70 environmental, tourism and lifestyle businesses to unlock the nature tourism potential of Morecambe Bay. This work is supported by the Morecambe Bay Local Nature Partnership and is part of...

Jonathan Hall is the RSPB's Partner Development Officer for the UK's Oversea's Territories, in this guest blog he reveals the riches of the seas around Ascension Island The UK Overseas Territory of Ascension in the tropical Atlantic is...

This is a guest blog from Stephanie Lawrence, the Greater Thames Futurescape Community Engagement Officer:

During an evening of celebrations aboard Light Vessel 21 (pictured right) last week, we announced the winners of The BIG Picture: Greater Thames...

[This post was made by Sophie Thomas who is a Project Manager working on seabird island restoration at the RSPB] Ten years ago, the puffin population on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel fell to an all-time low - five individuals on an island whose...

[Written by Alice Ward-Francis who is a Globally Threatened Species Officer in the RSPB's International Species Recovery Team]

 Have you ever heard of Africa's Galapagos - São Tomé and Príncipe?

The beautiful volcanic islands...

By Sophie Thomas who is the RSPB's Project Manager for Seabird Island Restoration Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity 2014. This year focus is on Island Biodiversity. This is because islands and their surrounding near-shore...

[This post is from Thomas Churchyard who is a Senior Research Assistant in the RSPB’s International Research team] Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity 2014. This year the focus is on Island Biodiversity. This is because islands...

Our team - Brian, Rolf and Jack (9) are busy outside getting the kit in place for our attempt to live stream nightingales (picture of a nightingale, above) from the RSPB's Nature Reserve at Northward Hill in Kent. The reserve is sandwiched between...

This evening Brian Reid, Rolf Williams and I will be at Northward Hill RSPB Reserve with a lot of kit, hopefully a singing nightingale and all our fingers crossed as we try to live stream the song of nightingale to this web page. We’ll kick off...

The sun is shining and our reserve at Dungeness looks wonderful in mid May as the natural world gets on with the urgent business of spring.

But sadly I’m not down here to celebrate this glorious time of the year – but to receive news of the outcome of...

Our practice run for live-streaming nightingales live on Sunday evening is in full swing – the light hear at Northward Hill on the Isle of Sheppy.  The light is fading and the evening chorus of cuckoo, lesser whitethroat and whitethroat, blackbird...

A new exciting landscape partnership scheme is coming to the Brecks in the shape of the Breaking New Ground Project; this three year scheme was successfully awarded £1.5million by the Heritage Lottery Fund and will form the umbrella for 37 individual...