A family rockpooling. © omgimages/Getty

Your best ever summer of UK wildlife

Discover which species to look out for and where to see them

Dragonfly Week

Black-tailed skimmer dragonfly (Orthetrum cancellatum) larva / nymph

Insects & Invertebrates

How do dragonfly larvae hunt?

Dragonflie moment of birth. Close up photo.

Insects & Invertebrates

Dragonfly lifecycle

Large dragonfly on woman's hand. © Simon002/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Do dragonflies bite or sting humans?

Latest articles

Chris Packham sitting on his tree trunk seat on the banks of the River Itchen. In the programme, Chris follows the water upstream all the way to Winchester. © Tim Smith/Atypical Media Ltd/BBC

How to watch Chris Packham: The Walk That Made Me

Overall 1st place and Birds of Galapagos 1st place: Nazca boobies on Española island. © Leighton Lum/Galapagos Conservation Trust

Galapagos Conservation Trust Photography Competition 2021

Beaver kit caught on the night cam on the National Trust's Holnicote Estate in Somerset. © National Trust

Exmoor baby beaver named after Marcus Rashford

Peacock butterfly. © Mark Searle/Butterfly Conservation

Big Butterfly Count: how to take part and species to spot

Summer wildlife

Discover the UK's early summer wildlife, including what's in season this month and best spectacles to see

An adult osprey with one of its chicks. © Brian Matthews

British wildlife in July

Pristine male purple emperor displaying all four wings, at Fermyn Woods. © Matthew Oates/Neil Hulme

Insects & Invertebrates

Purple emperor butterfly guide: how to identify, what they eat, and when and where to see them

House sparrow bathing in water - garden birds need fresh water in the heatwave. © Ray Kennedy/RSPB

How to help your garden wildlife in a heatwave

A mallard drake in eclipse plumage. © Getty

Identify Wildlife

How to identify moulting ducks

Female Emperor Dragonfly / Blue Emperor (Anax imperator) laying eggs in water of pond

5 top spots for dragon watching

Red valerian growing at Port Isaac in Cornwall, UK. © Getty

Identify Wildlife

How to identify non-native summer flowers

Wildlife photography galleries

See incredible images of flora and fauna by talented photographers around the world

This jill hare had been coming into this upland garden for two years and hid her leverets in the kitchen borders and came in from the fields at dusk to feed her leveret. This behaviour has rarely been photographed. © Andrew Fusek Peters

Hill & Dale: My Shropshire Year

There are 6 subspecies of tiger; the Bengal tiger subspecies is found on the Indian subcontinent. © Supriya Dam

India’s iconic ‘Big Five’ mammals

This composite image, taken during a drought, shows the variety of mammals and birds visiting a scarce watering hole in Gorongosa National Park over the course of one day. © Piotr Naskrecki and Jen Guyton

Life and death in Mozambique

Aldabra giant tortoise Dipsochelys dussumieri covered in golden brown dry earth, Mauritius.

Wildlife wonders of Mauritius

Animal species

Learn more about your favourite wildlife species, including identification, diet and habitat

Male stag beetle in hand. © Aimi MacInnes

Insects & Invertebrates

Stag beetle guide: how to identify, and how to help them in your garden

A long-tailed tit on a branch. © Linda Lyon/Getty

Long-tailed tit guide: how to identify, what they sound like, and what to feed them

A ring-tailed lemur family. Photographed in captivity. © Mathias Appel

Ring-tailed lemur guide: where they live, what they eat, and why they’re endangered

More animal species

Wildlife gardening

Welcome a range of species to your garden with our free how-to guides

Blue tit perched on the branch of a spring flowering crab apple tree

British garden birds guide: how to identify different species and attract them to your garden

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Wildlife Gardening

How to make a butterfly-friendly garden

Great spotted woodpecker on feeder.

Wildlife Gardening

How to make your garden wildlife-friendly

Common frog sitting on pond weed in the sunshine © Alasdair James / Getty

Wildlife Gardening

How to build and care for your wildlife pond

Illustration by Jill Calder/Central Illustration

People & Wildlife

How do you deal with 'pests' if you love wildlife?

Worms in compost heap, Getty Images

Wildlife Gardening

How to make compost and attract wildlife to your garden

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Reviews

Read our reviews of wildlife books, games, podcasts, and gifts.

Life in Colour. Attenborough with toucan. Cropped

Best wildlife and nature documentaries to stream

Find the best nature documentaries of all time to stream from the comfort of home with our ultimate TV guide.

Gift box wrapped by kraft brown paper with blue jeans ribbon and handmade wooden hedgehog small toy. © Elena Popova/Getty

People & Wildlife

40+ wildlife gifts for nature lovers

Father and daughter reading in bedroom. © Getty

People & Wildlife

60+ wildlife and nature books for children and teenagers

Family sitting on a couch, playing a memory game. © Getty

People & Wildlife

20+ wildlife-themed games, including board and card games, and jigsaw puzzles

Plants

Learn more about different species of plants

Rose hips. © Joff Lee/Getty

Identify Wildlife

How to identify wild fruits

Anna Saltmarsh. © Kevin Sawford

Surveying rare plants and safeguarding native trees

Ash tree suffering from an infection of ash dieback. © Andrea Harper

Everything you need to know about ash dieback

An urban wildflower meadow on Park Square roundabout in the centre of the city of Sheffield, Yorkshire. © Matthew Taylor/Alamy

Seeds of controversy: the debate around sown vs native road verges

How to guides

Search free guides on foraging, homemade crafts and outdoor skills

Elderflower fritters on a tray. © Debby Lewis-Harrison/Getty

How to make elderflower fritters

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Making a nestbox. © Getty

How to make a garden bird nestbox

Nettles

How to make nettle beer

Girl and boy crouched on lawn with the equipment for building a small pond in a container and a wheelbarrow. © DK Images

How to make a small pond for wildlife

Wild rose lokum. © Tiffany Francis

How to make wild rose lokum (Turkish delight)

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How to make a footprint tunnel

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Interviews with wildlife conservationists and the latest science projects

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Wildlife and mental health: how birdwatching saved my life

Girl playing with fairy toys garden. © Getty

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Nature activities for children

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Everything you need to know about microplastics

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