SWT Youth Action Committee Co-Chair Josie Stuart talks about the impact of plastics on our planet, and how you can help.

Not many wildlife spectacles can beat the overwhelming beauty of swathes of violet Bluebells under the pale green of newly opened leaves.

I thought I’d do a review of 2023 by way of five Newdigate Treasures.

Ivy has had a long-standing association with winter celebrations throughout history, like holly, a splash of evergreen colour in a landscape that may appear otherwise lifeless.

One of our most distinctive winter plants, holly has a long-standing association with Christmas, but is also an important source of food and shelter for wildlife during the harsh winter months.…

Surrey has the second largest habitat by area to support adders in the UK, but this much misunderstood reptile needs our help

Every autumn our homes become the centre of an eight-legged love story featuring drama, passion and death.

The Government wants to ditch laws that require housebuilders not to harm rivers. But we know these rules work – they enable houses to be built and rivers to be protected. Here’s how, writes Ali…

If you judge it by the weather, spring 2023 was not particularly fabulous at Newdigate Brickworks Nature Reserve. It was cool and it was wet.

Late summer is the best time to discover one of the UK’s chunkiest caterpillars, the elephant hawk-moth.