H a b i t a t - Blue for the world, green for the land, red for the living
Capricorn beetle
Animals
Resources

Mammal Society
Mammals Trust UK
The Deer Commission for Scotland
Scottish Big Cat Trust
Scottish Badgers
International Otter Survival Fund
Bat Conservation Trust
National Federation of Badger Groups
Froglife
Herpetological Groups of Britain & Ireland
Butterfly Conservation
Butterflies of Ireland
Spiders of NW-Europe
British Dragonfly Society
Buglife

'Extinct' beetle comes out of the woodwork
A beetle thought to have been extinct in Britain for more than 100 years has been found nesting in a house in Warwickshire.
Telegraph
Monarch's deer ruin the glen, claims expert
The Queen has been accused of ignoring the devastating environmental damage caused by vast herds of red deer that roam across her Highland estate and on to one of Scotland's top nature reserves.
Scotsman.com
Islanders net £4,000 in bounties as hedgehog rescuers needle SNH
The celebrity-backed rescue of hedgehogs in the Outer Hebrides finished for another year yesterday - with a record 241 saved.
Scotsman.com
Farmer faces jail for disturbing dormice (what's even madder: nobody has ever seen a dormouse on his land)
A farmer faces a six-month jail sentence after becoming the first person to be accused of disturbing a dormouse habitat.
Telegraph
Otter makes mark at park's riverside
They are so shy you might not know one if you saw one - but otters are making a steady comeback across the county.
this is leicestershire
Cattle movement key to TB spread
The movement of cattle around Britain is the most important known factor in the spread of bovine TB, a study says.
BBC

The harlequin ladybird is the most invasive ladybird on Earth.
Now it's in Britain.
Help monitor its spread here 
Pink sea fan
Marine
Resources

British Marine Life Study Society
JNCC Fisheries
Marine Conservation Society
Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland
Shark Trust
The European Register of Marine Species
The UK Coastal Zone

Study of rare coral life
Marine experts from Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium are taking part in a groundbreaking study to monitor the health of one of Europe's rarest and most spectacular coral species.
this is the West Country
Lobbyists square up over whaling
Greenpeace activists are occupying the site of a proposed whale meat factory in Ulsan, South Korea, ahead of talks on the state of the world's whale stocks.
BBC
WWF celebrates Draft Marine Bill
The Government has just confirmed that it will introduce a draft marine bill in this parliamentary session.
WWF-UK
Australia rallies to the defence of its humpbacks in the face of Japanese cull
The first humpbacks of the season could be seen frolicking off a Sydney beach this week, but if Japan gets its way, the whales could soon be slaughtered for "scientific" reasons.
Independent
The Wildlife Trusts Your ocean needs you!
Show your support for the marine bill campaign by signing The Wildlife Trusts’ marine petition online by clicking here.
Tawny owl
Birds
Resources

British Trust for Ornithology
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Birds Directive
BirdGuides Bird News
JNCC - Birds
Natura 2000 Birds by Species
Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside
Black Grouse UK
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
BirdLife International
Fat Birder
Owl agony prompts wildlife warning
A beautiful tawny owl has suffered a slow, painful death after becoming entangled in kite string caught up in trees.
Bedford Today
Appeal to help save farmland bird
The RSPB is appealing for help in reversing the declining numbers of a farmland bird.
BBC
Bird numbers soar with conservation scheme
Stone curlews and lapwings across Wiltshire have good reason to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity tomorrow.
this is Wiltshire
Chick joy for rare birds of prey
Birdwatchers are celebrating the new arrival of one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.
BBC
Feather report
Turtle doves are purring again in the tall hedgerows. They are one of the last of the summer visitors to come back.
Times Online
Plants
Resources

The British Lichen Society
The Woodland Trust
Botanical Society of the British Isles
Plantlife
Flora locale
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Heritage Trees of Scotland
The Postcode Plants Database
Forestry Commission

York boffins solve plant growth mystery
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? The question in this famous old nursery rhyme was today answered - by biology scientists at the University of York.
this is York
Scots herbs emerge as medicine sources
While the Amazonian rainforest has been hailed as the "pharmacy to the world" because of its rich diversity of plant life, the medicinal potential of flora closer to home has largely been overlooked.
Scotsman.com
Those nasty nettles have a nice side too
More than 30 people joined in an adventure aimed at reversing the perception of nettles as a troublesome weed.
this is Wiltshire
Wildlife is there waiting in these woods
The bluebells may be over now but there are plenty of other flowers to enjoy in Monkwood, including stitchwort, yellow archangel and bugle.
this is Worcestershire
Ecologist passes away aged 68
Oliver Gilbert, the noted ecologist and lichenologist with close ties to Tynedale, has passed away at the age of 68.
Hexham Courant
"Daffodil man" could sell land to travellers
The smallholder at the centre of the Epping Forest daffodil massacre', when forest chiefs ordered the cutting down of thousands of the spring flowers, says he is so fed up with the Corporation of London that he is considering selling his site to travellers.
Epping Forest Guardian
National
Resources

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
Natural Environment Research Council
Minerals and Nature Conservation Forum
The Wildlife Trusts
Wildlife and Countryside Link
British Naturalists' Association
EnvironmentJobs
Legal move to make EU publish GM test results
Two legal initiatives are to be launched to force European bureaucrats to make public secret research on the effects of feeding GM corn to rats, whose results were exclusively revealed in The Independent on Sunday.
Independent
Publication delay for secret nuclear dump list
Publication of a highly sensitive and long-secret list of potential nuclear waste dumps, many of which are suspected of being in Scotland, has been delayed by the government in defiance of a plea from its advisers.
Sunday Herald
We'll buy land to stop shooting, say anti-hunt groups
Anti-hunt campaigners are secretly planning to buy up thousands of acres of land where game shooting takes place in order to block the pastime, as they widen their attack on country sports.
Telegraph

Naturenet
Countryside management and nature conservation
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England
Resources

English Nature
Countryside Agency
Environment Agency
Campaign for the Protection of Rural England
Damaging wildlife areas may land your firm in the dock
Businesses in the region have been warned about the dangers of damaging protected wildlife areas.
this is the North-east
Work underway on reserves
Improvements are well under way at three Rowley Regis and Cradley Heath nature reserves, which received a total of £200,000 in lottery grants last year.
this is the Black Country
Lottery funding for wildlife project
Lottery cash worth £516,000 is winging its way to wildlife experts to help protect animals and plants.
this is leicestershire
Steps taken to bring canal back to life
The first phase of a ten-year scheme to bring the disused Wilts and Berks Canal back to life between Chippenham and Melksham is about to start.
this is bath
Scotland
Resources

Scottish Natural Heritage
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Scottish Biodiversity Group
Scotland's National Nature Reserves
John Muir Trust
Scottish Environment News
Scottish Wildlife Trust
Red Squirrels In South Scotland

10p charge for plastic carriers is in the bag
We use around one billion every year for a once-only trip from the supermarket, before discarding them as worthless rubbish.
Scotland on Sunday
Warning over 'a disaster' for otters
Protected species such as otters and bats are being threatened by controversial plans to build a £45 million civic centre in the Lothians.
Scotsman.com
Minister intervenes in row
Scotland's farming minister, Ross Finnie, has been forced to intervene to try and defuse a row about cuts in agri-environment payments.
FWi
'Green' attraction in sponsor call
An award-winning environmental attraction which relies entirely on donations is urgently seeking a sponsor to fund much-needed extra staff.
this is north scotland
Deputy Chair appointed to Scottish Natural Heritage
Keith Geddes was today appointed as Deputy Chair of Scottish Natural Heritage.
Scottish Executive
Birds of prey hospital opens at Mull sanctuary
The first dedicated raptor hospital on the west coast of Scotland will be officially opened on Mull tomorrow.
this is north scotland
Out there
Spring comes late to the Highlands — so late that if you think about it too hard, you miss it.
Times Online
Ireland
Resources

Environment & Heritage Service (Northern Ireland)
Northern Ireland Biodiversity Group
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Ireland's Environment
All-Ireland review of introduced species

Where now for forestry in Northern Ireland?
Forest Service Chief Executive Malcolm Beatty has confirmed to Farming Life that forestry and tree planting have a significant role to play in meeting the objectives set out in EU policies which reflect a growing commitment to the environment and the general conservation of the countryside.
Farming Life
Nitrates kept top of the agenda
The UFU continues to press for a successful outcome to the Nitrates Directive, seeking an affordable and workable outcome for farmers, as well as securing an improvement in water quality.
Farming Life
Green Party alarmed by seizure of GM maize
The Green Party has expressed "grave concern" over the seizure of banned genetically modified (GM) maize in Co Louth this week.
Irish Independent
Council demands birth certs of locals planning to build
People seeking to build one-off homes in Clare are being asked by the local county council to supply birth certificates and letters from parish priests to secure planning permission.
The Papers Today
Trust a walk to clear cobwebs
The latest in a series of guided walks organised by The National Trust promises to be the perfect way to kick off next week.
Belfast Telegraph
Save your cash and help save the planet
Helping conserve and improve our environment is not just the responsibility of green politicians and conservation groups – ordinary individuals play a key role in ensuring the future of our planet.
The Papers Today
Wales
Resources

Welsh Assembly
Countryside Council for Wales
Wales Biodiversity Partnership
Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales
Environment Agency (Wales)

Tide turns in favour of Teifi
The tide is finally turning for the River Teifi. After decades of turning its back on the river, Cardigan is now embracing it thanks to ideas made reality by the £2.5m Teifi river project.
this is Tivyside
Beauty of Wales no longer off-limits for walkers
Its inaccessible remoteness harbours some of Britain's most beautiful wildlife and habitat. Home to nesting peregrines, golden plovers and purple saxifrage, an arctic plant rarely found so far south, many believe the Brecon Beacons beat all national parks for variety.
Independent
BBC
Energy
Resources

DTI Renewable Energy
British Wind Energy Association
Greenpeace - Renewable Energies
Irish Wind Energy Association
Yes2Wind
Country Guardian
Impact of Wind Turbines on Birds
Wind-Farm.org
Windfarm News
Concerns as wind turbine blade breaks
Fresh safety concerns were raised last night over wind farms in the West after one of the blades on a UK turbine shattered in high winds.
Gloucestershire Echo
Don't vandalise our countryside
Britain's best-known 'greenie' can normally be relied upon for level-headed common sense. But for once I can't agree with Jonathon Porritt when he says that wind farms are the way forward.
Gloucestershire Echo
Lives at risk on turbines route
Health chiefs are worried lives could be at risk if plans for a wind farm at Mynydd y Gwair are given the go-ahead.
this is southwales
Council defers talks on wind farm
Plans for the proposed West Hinkley wind farm will not be discussed by the district council until autumn or winter this year.
this is Somerset
Gloucestershire Echo
Wind farm project fuels controversial shares plan
Controversial plans to offer shares in a £20m wind farm project will be unveiled tomorrow.
Scotsman.com
Why no Central Belt wind farms?
Why is it that all the wind farms are being built in country areas away from the Central Belt?
Scotsman.com
In the pay of wind power
Following a report in the Sunday Times, I am not in the least surprised that wind turbine company boss Nigel Doughty gave Labour £250,000 earlier this year.
this is southwales
£900,000 boost for grass power
Plans to build the UK's first bio-energy power plant to use elephant grass as fuel have received a £935,000 boost from the Government.
this is the sentinel
'Sandals and beards' are banished in a quest to find 20,000 volts under the sea
A converted Victorian school in the village of Stromness in the Orkney Islands is the unlikely home to the world's first - and only - testing centre for wave and tidal energy machines.
Independent
UK blew wind power, we can’t let Holyrood sink wave energy
The government cannot say it wasn’t warned: a whole new industry with its roots in the UK and particular expertise in Scotland is under threat.
Sunday Herald
Climate
Resources

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
Southampton Oceanography Centre
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Natural Environment Research Council
UK Climate Impacts Programme
Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife
ENN Special Reports: Climate Change
Global Warming: Early warning signs
Owners of gas-guzzling cars to be hit by five-fold tax increase
Motorists who drive fuel-hungry BMWs, people carriers and Range Rovers face a five-fold increase in road tax under radical plans to combat Britain's spiralling greenhouse gas emissions.
Independent
In an adverse climate
Your article Wildlife groups axe Bellamy as global warming ‘heretic’ (News, May 15) was certainly news to me.
Times Online
G8 will not set targets to cut global warming
The G8 summit is to discuss the role of nuclear power in reducing climate change - but it is not preparing to set new targets or a timetable to reduce global warming, according to a leaked document.
Independent
Leaked G8 draft angers green groups
A leak of the draft communique on climate change for the G8 summit has dismayed green lobbyists by failing to include a single target or timetable to achieve greater action.
The Guardian
Revealed: The real cost of air travel
It might be cheap, but it's going to cost the earth. The cut-price airline ticket is fuelling a boom that will make countering global warming impossible.
Independent
'They're not serious about the environment'
Australia is an "environmental bandit" for failing to sign the Kyoto protocol on curbing climate change, award-winning scientist David Suzuki said on Tuesday.
IOL
Help produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century, using your computer -
here
Global
Resources

IUCN - World Conservation Union
Convention on Biological Diversity
WWF - The global environment network
World Land Trust

Storks get a birdy on nest of golf balls
A pair of broody storks which tried to hatch golf balls pilfered from a German golf course have become parents after being given an abandoned egg to tend.
Telegraph
Hunting Tasmania's extinct 'tiger'
They come out as soon as the sun goes down on the Australian island state of Tasmania.
BBC
Wildlife officials trying to finalize wolf plan
Tracy Hatch was excited when he first spotted wolf tracks at his Rich County ranch. The idea of seeing the endangered species in person was thrilling, despite the possible threat to his livestock.
Herald Extra
Roll up for the greatest shoal on Earth
Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg reports on the spectacular sardine run that brings both food and danger to Africa’s coast
Sunday Herald
The World Land Trust is a conservation charity that has helped purchase and protect over 300,000 acres of rainforest and other threatened wildlife habitats worldwide. You can help us save even more - here
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