Time for another guest blog! This time we have Joanne, our new community engagement officer, telling us about her first experiences of the Inner Forth, I think she was impressed!.....

Let me introduce myself, I am Joanne Dempster, a new member of the...

.Monday 5th August’13 saw the return of the annual 'Robin Hood Festival' in it’s astounding 29th year at ‘Sherwood Forest NNR’ , the festival attracted over 50,000 visitors from all over, including many international visitors...

The RSPB has been campaigning for years to ensure that biofuels don’t harm wildlife and our climate. Now we find ourselves at a turning point – we have a critical opportunity to eliminate the worst culprits when the European Parliament votes...

People tend to think of the South Downs as being solely about the fantastic chalk ridge that runs its length – all 100 miles of it!  And whilst this ridge, and its iconic chalk grassland, is a landscape worth protecting... the South Downs is made...

One of the reasons I love the Inner Forth is that alongside the amazing wildlife, there is an absolute wealth of inudstrial and social heritage. Throughtout the area you will find everything from old mines and factories to ancient castles and homes with...

Sue Crawford is a lovely person and artist. Look at her art work and you’ll see someone who studies the forms of nature and the landscape, its fluidity as shapes twist and turn, the architecture of an umbellifer head or a dandelion clock. Spend any time...

One of the great things about working on a Futurescapes project is being able to find out about all the amazing things our partners get up to! Around the Inner Forth there are so many different organisations doing really great stuff, one of those, the...

I have to admit I haven’t spent a night in a tent for a few years.

But that’s all about to change – for next weekend is Big Wild Sleepout and I have a very excited 8 year old already making plans for our night under canvass. Lots of...

Last week my husband and I joined a group of RSPBers out on Heyshott Heath – a part of the greater South Downs landscape – to do a nightjar survey.  We all met early evening with picnic baskets, bug repellent and binoculars in hand.  Can’t start...

On Saturday 6^th and Sunday 7^th July, the RSPB joined forces with the Creswell Heritage Trust to hold the ‘RSPB Big Wildlife Weekender’ at Creswell Crags. The was the third successful partnership event held on site this year, and coincided...

In May the State of Nature report was launched by a partnership of wildlife organisations, on a memorable day for me as it was my birthday. So, what was news on the state of my nation’s wildlife to greet me on my 44th birthday? Well, it wasn’t a cheery...

I went on a pilgrimage last week to one of my old stamping grounds, to the Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire. A rolling landscape linking Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster. An environment ravaged by coal mining and a community devastated by the end of...

Development and nature can go hand in hand, according to a new report published by an alliance of conservationists and planning experts.

'Planning Naturally - Spatial planning with nature in mind: in the UK and beyond' has been produced by the...

I'm delighted to welcome Gemma Hogg, from the RSPB's media team, as guest blogger here on Saving Special Places

Julia Bradbury, Matt Baker and a BBC film crew turned up to Wallasea Island last Friday. They were there to film a feature for Countryfile...

The Spoon-billed sandpiper is one of the World’s most charismatic birds, but also one of the rarest and most threatened. It breeds up in North-East Russia and migrates along the East Asia coast where many of its feeding and roosting sites have been...

Yes, of course I want him to win. But it would be really helpful if he won quickly, and not just to prevent the national palpitations that will be caused by another tense five-setter.

It’s a big day for team RSPB – the first airing of our TV advert for...

We’ve been promising to show Jack his first puffin for ages – and a few weekends ago we set off up the Great North Road on a pilgrimage to Yorkshire’s seabird city. I hadn’t visited for a good few years; it was a first for Claire and...

Lodge Hill is a place made special by nightingales (pictured, below), dozens of them return each spring making Lodge Hill one of the most important places in the UK for them.

The former military training school in north Kent was earmarked for a 5,000...

From Cave crevices to small fissures, Creswell Crags is a piece of history in its own right! A limestone gorge honeycombed with habitats and remnants dating back to the last ice age, straddling the borders of Nottingham and Derbyshire, including stone...

Big day today.

Giving Nature a Home starts today – publicly; we’ve been living with its development over the last few months and now we want everyone to give nature a home in gardens and public spaces, through the support of conservation organisations...

The Bristol State of Nature Question Time follows on directly from the State of Nature report publication last month.

The report  showed clearly that nature in the UK is in trouble. What we now need to do is look urgently for creative solutions – and...

This is a guest blog by Jacqui Weir about her work on woodland management. A lack of woodland management has been identified as a key driver for many woodland bird declines and this partnership project is delivering work at a landscape scale approach...

I know that Simon’s colleagues and many friends here at the RSPB will be delighted at the news that he has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and will join me in offering our warmest congratulations. 

Simon is a regular contributor...

Tania Crockett, Morecambe Bay Community Engagement Officer for Leighton Moss and Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands Nature Improvement Area provides our guest blog today...

Just over a week ago, I was joined by over 200 people at the Arnside Bioblitz...

Every few years, for decades, proposals to build a tidal power generating barrage across the Severn Estuary have achieved prominence. The idea of capturing some of the massive energy of the tide (the second highest in the world – behind North America...