This blog has featured some long-running stories; one in particular, has stood out for me in terms of the threat to a hugely important wildlife site, the response and now the solution. Sarah Sanders, our Head of Partner Development in Africa and Asia...

I’ll admit it. I did spend part of Friday evening watching as the counter clicked upwards. It could have seemed inevitable that over half a million of us across the European Union would sign up to defend the laws that protect nature – but...

Warm summer evenings on the Dorset heathlands are something very special. The ‘jewel in the crown’ of this wildlife rich landscape stretches from the RSPB’s Arne nature reserve to Studland on the Purbeck coast, along the ruins of...

Our man (Andy Schofield) writes: Milky Way as seen from Pitcairn. ( photo: Rhiannon Adam .) It is not only the bonanza of rare and wonderful wildlife that can be seen on the Pitcairn Island group as well as in and above the neon blue Pacific...

Build it and they will come - Katie Prewett summarises what has been an exciting couple of days down on the south coast and catches up with the news from other RSPB nature reserves: As far as exciting Wednesdays go, this week pretty much tops it. Much...

Our man (Andy Schofield) writes: One of my favourite birds without a shadow of a doubt during my time in Pitcairn has been the Red-Tailed Tropicbird which Pitcairner’s call “The Bosun Bird”. They can be difficult to see well as their...

For several months (and well before recent inaccurate media coverage) a team of us has been working hard to plan a positive future for a piece of land in Someford, near Congleton in Cheshire. The land in question was generously left to the RSPB by the...

The laws that protect nature are under close scrutiny - in a series of blog posts we're exploring what the European Nature Directives have achieved. Here Annabel Rushton describes their role in protecting Morecambe Bay. When asked to think about...

Our man (Andy Scholfield) writes: Breadfruit, ripe and ready for shooting I didn’t know what to think when Pawl, known on Pitcairn as “Pawl the Pirate”, knocked on my door and said “fancy shooting some breadfruit today...

Our man (Andy Schofield) writes:- Adams’ Rock. Today I was lucky, the Pitcairner’s had offered me a fishing trip out on one of their longboats. I love to fish, ever since I was “knee high to a grasshopper” it’s been...

Our man (Andy Schofield) writes: My ringing desk (with a view) Today, I was going to attempt to catch and colour ring the endemic Pitcairn Reed Warbler. This would enable individuals to be identifiable and give us a greater insight into their...

The EU has been remarkably good at identifying and protecting its very best wildlife sites – and in turn some of our most threatened wildlife has been given a better chance of a safer future. Since the founding of the EU and the Common Market before...

Our man (Andy Scholfield) writes: Today was an important day; I would take my Pitcairn Island driving test! This would enable me and all my kit to get round the island much easier. Yes, I was nervous. Brenda from the Pitcairn Police and Immigration...

Our most important campaign ever? I’ve told you a million times that hyperbole is always best avoided. And this blog follows that advice! On Tuesday an unprecedented partnership (well 100 organisations in the UK and the entire BirdLife International...

Our man (Andy Schofield, RSPB UK Overseas Territories Officer) writes: (View from the highest point on Pitcairn with the Claymore II anchored offshore) I had a couple of hours before my all important council meeting so Leslie Jacques (one of...

Andy Schofield, RSPB's UK Overseas Territories Officer writes: Finally after three flights, five days of travelling (including two days at sea), Pitcairn Island! It was a strange feeling going to sleep knowing that you had anchored just a...

We've been working with the UK's amazing Overseas Territories for almost 20 years, but are still only scratching the surface of understanding their wonderful wildlife. One of the most remote and little known Territory environments is found in...

Guest blog from; RSPB Senior Conservation Scientist, Dr Michael MacDonald, Environmental Programmes Assistant for the National Trust for the Cayman Islands (NTCI) Catherine Childs and Executive Director of the Anguilla National Trust (ANT), Farah Muk...

Our rivers are among our most iconic landscapes, but in England, at least, all is not well. Rob Cunningham, our head of Water Policy here at the RSPB looks at the numbers and they don't look good ... and you have a chance to add your voice. How...

Today’s guest blog is from my old friend and colleague, Tim Melling, the RSPB’s Senior Conservation Officer in the North of England. He’s writing about a part of the English landscape that has not had the recognition it deserves. ...

Harnessing the predictable power of the tides has been a dream of engineers for decades. This led to a number of proposals to build barrages across some of our most iconic and environmentally sensitive estuaries such as the Mersey and the Severn. The...

More adventures from Chris below! A large part of my wonderful job involves identifying and measuring the population size of individual species, however as an ecologist this information is just one step in the process of working out how all the plants...

The RSPB has today written to the National Planning Casework Unit to ask that the Secretary of State issues a direction requiring West Dorset District Council to refer the Rampisham Down solar farm application to him for his own determination. Known as...

The theme of this year’s international World Wetlands Day (today - Monday, 2 February) * is “Wetlands for our future”. At a time where evidence of a changing climate grows stronger - eight of the UK’s top ten warmest years (since...

On 15 January 2015, West Dorset Council’s Planning Committee voted to approve the application by British Solar Renewables to build a solar farm on Rampisham Down, a nationally important SSSI grassland. The case has striking similarities with the...