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An EU r ed kite Action Plan has been written by the RSPB (on behalf of BirdLife International ) with input from raptor experts across the continent. It fingers poisoning as the main reason for big declines in the populations in Spain, France and Germany...

Charles Clover is a distinguished environmental journalist whose book, The End of the Line is an excellent read (and now a film). Charles understands the countryside quite well too but today in his Sunday Times column he has a go at Hilary Benn for announcing...

Great news! Two pairs of cranes at our Lakenheath Fen nature reserve have well-grown young. One of these is capable of quite decent flight and the other is almost there - fingers crossed! And this is at a site which was a carrot field only about 14 years...

For the first time since 1832 great bustard chicks have been hatched in the wild in the UK. The Great Bustard Group's reintroduction project on Salisbury Plain has passed an enormously important milestone. Many congratulations to them! Hopes had been...

...to hear the corncrakes sing. A century ago the corncrake's song was heard in grassy fields in every county in the UK but now it is restricted to some Scottish islands (eg Islay, Coll, Tiree, the Uists) and a few pairs on mainland Scotland and occasionally...