[Dan Brown is the RSPB's Globally Threatened Species Officer with responsibility for the curlew. Here he brings us news of an international effort to halt declines in this charismatic species.] With its long down-curved bill and evocative bubbling...

While we await the full outcome of the meeting of European Fisheries Ministers (details remain patchy at the moment) attention turns to the International Maritime Organisation's environmental subcommittee . Today, we have stepped up efforts to prevent...

Blogger: Rachael Murray, Project Officer I’m off on holiday to Turkey next week, and ever since I passed that tantalisingly irreversible milestone of booking my flight, I have been pondering what I will wear on my ‘tropical’ adventure...

Hywel Maggs, Conservation Officer for North East Scotland, tells us about one of the fabulous farmers he has been working with to help corn buntings John Moir has recently been nominated for the Species Champion category in the Nature of Scotland Awards...

[Neha Sinha is Advocacy and Policy Officer, Bombay Natural History Society, India. She is based in Delhi, though she would like to ‘fly’ to some IBAs more often. She can be contacted at n.sinha@bnhs.org . Neha tells us here about her experience...