Campaigners say the region offers good habitat for the species, but farmers and crofters have raised concerns.

Beavers and red kites may be flourishing in Britain, but the reintroduction of apex predators here is a trickier issue. Could there be practical and philosophical benefits and would a trial release of ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking it was an imaginative, if not bloodthirsty, way to get rid of farmers protesting against the new inheritance tax rules. In June, the Lynx UK Trust, an organisation that ...

Return of key species after more than 500 years could control damaging surge in deer numbers and boost tourism ...

Mountain lions, which sometimes crush lynx skulls out of spite, have followed the deer and elk down into the foothills. But the lynx—with its ultralight frame and tremendous webbed feet—can tread on ...

I captured a photo of this spider on a white rose a few weeks ago. It looked mechanical to me as it crawled with its prey. It had caught a small flying insect shortly before I took this photo. This ...