RSPB

The RSPB is highlighting some of the year’s conservation successes as it warns of the challenges nature faces in 2025.

Research from green groups found that more than half of local authorities in England have failed to meet their ‘biodiversity duty’ requirements.

The public consultation on Northern Ireland's first seabird conservation strategy closes on December 16

The slender-billed curlew could be the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europe, north Africa and west Asia.

Signs of Orkney vole activity are up 200% on 2019, while threatened ground-nesting birds are doing better, an RSPB report says.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature said hedgehog numbers are thought to have shrunk in more than half the countries where they live.

Living on Rathlin Island has inspired nature campaigner, conservationist and debut author Ruby Free to embrace even more of a wild life. She tells Gail Bell how the island made her ‘slow down’ and appreciate the simple life surrounded by puffins, dolphins and even sharks

Criteria for which areas can count as protected for nature is urgently needed to meet global commitments, conservation groups say.

Conservationists have introduced a wasp to tackle an invasive scale insect destroying forest habitat of the critically-endangered Wilkins’ bunting.

With a 2.4 metre wingspan earning them the nickname of the ‘flying barn door’, the species was reintroduced in Ireland from 2007 with the hope of establishing a new population.