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Saving Wildcats celebrates successful first breeding season

One of the wildcat kittens that are part of the Saving Wildcats programme

The Saving Wildcats conservation partnership project is celebrating a successful first breeding season, welcoming a total of 22 wildcat kittens who could be among the first of their species to be released into the wild in Britain. Led by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), Saving Wildcats is working with national and international experts … Read more

Help PTES monitor wildlife numbers in the UK

A fox cub on an urban street, one of the species that will be helped by PTES' surveys this summer

Wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is calling for people to take part in wildlife surveys both in their gardens and whilst out and about to help monitor the impact of the changing climate. ? Paul Saunders

Red squirrel walk-through planned for Wildwood

The Wildwood Trust is planning to build a giant Red Squirrel Walk-through with hopes to complete and open by Easter 2019. Red squirrels are one of Britain’s most attractive woodland animals and one of it’s rarest. The Kent based conservation charity has been leading a campaign to reintroduce red squirrels back to the UK after they … Read more

The perfect hedgehog home revealed

Wildlife charities the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) and People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) have been urging people to help hedgehogs by building them homes in their gardens. The recent heatwave has prompted more of us to help the nation’s favourite mammal, but what exactly makes the perfect hedgehog house? Last year, the first … Read more