Is it just me? Lakes and rivers didn't look like this when we were kids. Summer is here and the blue-green algae is back turning our waterscape into a soggy lawn.
At this time of year I'm cycling along the...
Dear COP26 Leaders, we need strong International laws, national and local natural environment rescue plans and more importantly, funding to help us to adapt and be more resilient with Nature Based Solutions.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been criticised...
Before Oil was discovered in its underbelly by British Petroleum and Shell in 1956, the Niger Delta was a lush and fertile landscape consisting of mangroves and swamps which supported a complex aquatic ecosystem.
The local peoples living within the...
In a year that’s been dubbed, ‘the year of the staycation’, Nene Valley tourism businesses have reported a record summer season, despite a slow start.
Cementing the Nene Valley’s reputation as an ‘outdoor adventure playground’, both tourists and day trippers...
There are many elusive creatures that I long to see and photograph in the wild; any of the big cats would no doubt be at the top of my international wish list. Closer to home I would dearly like...
It will only have escaped your notice if you have been unfortunately confined to bed for the past three months that it has been rather damp outside. For those of us fortunate to live in the countryside, rain is...
It was a beautiful mid-May morning, clear with a bit of a chill in the air but the promise of warmth later on, writes Richard Hollingum. We had left the car and were following the hedgerow along the valley...
“How do you become a ranger?” – It is a question I am asked often, as I go about the various tasks necessary to keep a country park well-maintained, writes Vikki Austin.
There is no simple answer, and each person's...
The writer Richard Mabey suggests that our sense of locality, our sense of being, perhaps belonging here, is as much to do with our feeling territorial, as it is to do with the landscape and what’s on it, writes...
Richard Hollingum looks at the competitive business of ranking rural idylls...
Many years ago I was involved in my village’s entry to the Village of the Year Competition.
I remember that it involved finding lots of evidence of how our village...
Strictly champion Joanne Clifton and CBeebies star Andy Day to lead the cast of Royal & Derngate’s pantomime Cinderella
Strictly champion and musical theatre...
