For organisations such as the RSPB, one opportunity that may come from a move towards "big society" and small government is taking on the management of land conservation.
I can be as ambitious as the next person when it comes to adding to the RSPB's land portfolio – 140,000 hectares (345,800 acres) and increasing every year [...]
The tawny owl population in one of the UK's largest forests is booming as a result of the harsh winter, a Forestry Commission expert said today.
There has been a significant increase in the number of voles, which the birds of prey feed on, in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, and experts believe this is linked to the [...]
A Japanese court has issued a rare ban against demonstrators who have hounded screenings of an Oscar-winning documentary exposing the country's infamous annual dolphin cull.
Yokohama regional court ordered members of a right-wing protest group to stay away from a theatre showing The Cove, which depicts the slaughter of 23,000 dolphins every year in the fishing [...]