Few of us will not have been transfixed by the unfolding trail of devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma - as the long journey to recovery starts Elizabeth Radford, our Senior UK Overseas Territories Officer, looks at the impact on our friends and colleagues...

Some good news brought to us in a guest blog by our Conservation Officer Amy Crossley At the heart of the Fens lies the Ouse Washes – a wetland wonder that has survived the extensive historic drainage of the Fens. It’s survival due to its...

An urgent and welcome update from Adrian Thomas, #SaveLodgeHill campaign manager Today (5 September 2017), news came through that the planning application for 5,000 houses at Lodge Hill, Medway, that would effectively have destroyed the best site for...

Written by Bruce Liggitt, Senior International Casework Officer, RSPB The Niger River, rising in the moist highlands of Guinea, feeds into the Inner Niger Delta, one of the largest and most important floodplains in Africa, extending some 400 km in...

As the Nature After Minerals (NAM) programme celebrates ten years of working with the minerals industry to help create homes for wildlife, Debra Royal reflects on the thinking behind the programme, its activity over this last decade and its hopes for...

The news that the Lake District has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site brings opportunities and challenges - our Cumbria Area Manager, Bill Kenmir reflects on the future of the world-famous Lake District and the wildlife that it could support...

The latest 2017 edition of Conservation Planner is essential reading for planners, ecologists and others working to save special places. It leads with an introduction to natural capital and its role in planning from RSPB senior economist Dr Katherine...

Building the homes the nation needs has been the subject of much political attention, both in February’s Housing White Paper and the recent general election. As Martin Harper blogged yesterday , t he RSPB recognises the challenges in delivering...

It's exciting news from Jaclyn Pearson, Project Manager for the Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project. BBC Springwatch have been filming on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly to showcase our Manx shearwaters! The Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project...

With a snap General Election taking place, there are probably a lot of questions running through your head right now. And if you’re anything like us, you’ll be wondering what this all means for nature. Now the RSPB is charity, which means...

It’s been a hectic few months and April has seen the nightingales return to the UK to breed after having made the long migration from Africa (now is the time to see them – find out how here ). We’ve also almost come to the end of the...

Whatever’s going on in the political world, the business of government continues. Back in February I blogged on the Housing White Paper , ‘ Fixing our broken housing market’ . We broadly welcomed the White Paper, but felt that it was...

I’m delighted to bring you some really good news, Hoddlesden moss has been saved following the decision to withdraw and application to build a windfarm on this sensitive and important moorland site. Tim Melling, our Senior Conservation Officer who...

This week we're focusing on the plight of the curlew - a bird that would be at the top of many lists to be the UK's totemic bird - not just because our coasts and estuaries host internationally important numbers of them in the winter, not only...

A few months after giving evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee, our Head of Nature Policy Jeff Knott highlights the positive conclusions of the cross-Party group's enquiry into Marine Protected Areas. Did you know today is World Penguin...

Here we are, into the final five days of Medway Council's consultation into their Development Options for the next two decades. As Adrian Thomas, our #SaveLodgeHill campaign manager writes, we are tantalisingly close to 12,000 responses. There’s...

Adrian Thomas, our #SaveLodgeHill campaign manager, tells us about National Nightingale Festival events which will give anyone the opportunity to hear nightingales for real. Nightingales are the virtuoso soloist of the bird world. But while most people...

The Saving Special Places blog has regularly featured coastal issues in the UK and elsewhere. Here Dr Nathan Richardson, Senior Policy Officer at the RSPB looks at the scale of the challenge to safeguard coastal habitats and if enough is being done. ...

As we’ve explored in our previous blogs , the nightingale has a rich and varied cultural history with man. In this week’s blog, we will explore the nightingale in creative literature and how tales have been told of this little brown bird....

When we think of Wales.... we think of rain. But here in Gogledd Cymru, rain is exactly what we need to help restore and protect blanket bog and the species that live there. RSPBs Conservation Advisor, Rhian Pierce talks about this amazing habitat and...

Today, we are delighted to have a guest blog written by the local environmental group closest to Lodge Hill, the Friends of the North Kent Marshes. Here we go again, another fight to save protected places from destruction in the heart of our community...

Our #SaveLodgeHill campaign lead, Adrian Thomas, explains why the allocation of Lodge Hill for housing would have ramifications for our best wildlife sites across the country. The nightingale aspect of the #SaveLodgeHill campaign is easy to understand...

As a young child I remember watching a 80s TV series called Faerie Tale Theatre featuring a very young Shelley Duvall. The episode which I still remember vividly to this day was that of the story of the Nightingale – an adaptation of a Hans Christian...

Adrian Thomas, #SaveLodgeHill campaign manager, shares what he has unearthed about Lodge Hill's fascinating history. Last November, I was fortunate to get behind the impregnable fences and guarded gates at Lodge Hill (with permission, you understand...

BREAKING Medway Council has announced today that it is extending its consultation until 18 April. This is because it has yet to produce the key Sustainability Appraisal that should have informed their proposals. We await that missing documentation...