Feature

Beautiful but dying: Inside the fight to save Lake Windermere Members only

For 41 weeks straight, Matt Staniek has sat outside a United Utilities office and demanded action. What more will it take to save the Lake District's most famous lake?

Coreen Grant
Coreen Grant
Feature

Meet the island community that saved an ancient sheep Members only

In 1971, a boatful of feral sheep was transported from St Kilda to the Scottish mainland. Their descendants then vanished. This is the story of the Lost Flock – and the Orkney residents who saved their primitive genes.

Eva Clifford Ameena Rojee
Eva Clifford / Ameena Rojee
Feature

‘Storm worse than ever today’: how schoolteachers tracked weather in the Outer Hebrides Members only

School logbooks from the nineteenth century reveal how islanders coped with a period of particularly stormy weather. In their resilience is a lesson for the future.

Chris Baraniuk
Chris Baraniuk
Pebble

At a Manchester bog, conservationists are still battling the damage of the Industrial Revolution Members only

A toxic legacy lies beneath the surface of Holcroft Moss. What does that mean for its future?

Sophie Yeo
Sophie Yeo
Conservation

On Llantrisant Common, a butterfly took on the bureaucrats – and won Members only

Conservationists despaired after an application to translocate caterpillars was denied, while another to kill them was approved. Yet, against the odds, the marsh fritillary is back.

Chantal Lyons
Chantal Lyons
Conservation

Is this Britain's loneliest rainforest? Members only

On the bare landscape of Harris, a small copse inspires hope for the revival of an ecosystem.

James Fair
James Fair
Conservation

'Nobody wants to live in a theme park': Will Wales finally get a new National Park? Members only

The Welsh government has pledged to turn the Clwydian Range into the country’s fourth National Park – but not everyone is happy.

Coreen Grant
Coreen Grant
Conservation

‘Does neb eisiau byw mewn parc thema’: a fydd Cymru yn cael Parc Cenedlaethol newydd o’r diwedd? Members only

Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi addo gwneud Bryniau Clwyd yn bedwerydd Parc Cenedlaethol y wlad – ond nid yw pawb yn hapus.

Coreen Grant
Coreen Grant
Conservation