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How to attract more wildlife to your garden

Volunteer plants a tree at Dundreggan Conservation Estate, Loch Ness. © Trees for Life

Be a conservation volunteer

'Supertrees' in Singapore feature in the Cities episode of Planet Earth II, airing on Sunday 11 December 2016 at 8pm on BBC One. © Tom Hugh-Jones/BBC NHU

Why young people prefer Planet Earth II to The X Factor

Chimpanzees help disperse cacao plants by eating their fruits. © Nicola Bryson-Morrison

Wild chimps help spread cacao trees

Leatherback turtles – which arrive in British waters during summer months to feed – can be particularly vulnerable to litter in the seas, as they can mistake plastic bags for their jellyfish prey, which can result in their death. © Herve06 / iStock

Number of plastic bags on UK beaches nearly halved

Extending as far south as northern Africa, the cirl bunting is at the limit of its European range in southwestern England. © MikeLane45 / iStock

Britain’s cirl buntings are back from the brink

Lions are a popular target among trophy hunters. © Pedro Bige / iStock

Study claims that hunting lions helps to conserve them

A humpback whale breaches at Uramba Bahia Malaga National Natural Park in Colombia. © Dan Kitwood/Getty

Humpbacks protect other species from orca attacks

Humpback whales played a starring role in BBC One's The Hunt: Hunger at Sea episode

BBC natural history filmmaker selected as BAFTA Breakthrough Brit

The red-capped manakin – found in the tropical and subtropical lowland forests of Central and South America – is classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. © epantha/Getty

New study claims that the IUCN Red List is inaccurate

New generation remotely triggered cameras bring viewers up-close to Nepal's snow leopards in the BBC's new Planet Earth II series. © David Willis/BBC

Planet Earth is back!

Grey seal pups have been victims of predation on Bull Island. © Dan Kitwood / Getty

Dogs may be responsible for killing seal pups at Dublin Bay

Although they used to range as far north as California and Texas in the USA, jaguars now only survive in Central and South America, from Mexico to north Argentina. © Claudia Wultsch

Isolation threatens jaguar population

Lithodytes lineatus is the only species of frog in South America known to mimic the chemical signals of another species. © Albertina Pimentel Lima

Amazonian frog produces its own ant repellent

Bitterns are listed as an Amber List species in the UK © bereta/iStock

Bittern baby boom