Nature & Wildlife - Page 3

The aim of these campaigns is largely to engage people with nature, wildlife and wild places, and help to them to understand the value of nature in their own lives.

The removal of these animals from the ecosystem upsets the natural balance and leads to a loss of heavy-wooded large trees.

Overall, an area the size of around 4,500 football pitches is still being lost every day.

“wildlife TV shows are the reason many of us fight for wildlife in the first place”.

The six species have now been updated to either ‘endangered’ or ‘critically endangered’ status on the Red List.

Attacks by lynx on sheep, particularly lambs, are known from across Europe and it seems inevitable that lynx would kill sheep here in Scotland. It is important however to put this in perspective.

Protected areas throughout the world receive 8 billion visitors every year, so it is clear the ecotourism business is booming.

A short video on how Dr Lynn Dick (Cambridge University) & Natural England are working to counter our declining bumblebee populations.

long summer droughts and other factors will likely lead to the rapid drying or even complete loss of many ecologically important wetlands.