A critically endangered spider, not seen in the UK for 40 years, has been rediscovered in a remote nature reserve accessible ...

AN incredibly rare species of spider has been spotted in the UK for the first time in 40 years. Feared to have gone extinct, ...

The arachnid, which has been named the white knuckled wolf spider, because of its distinctive pale knuckles on its palps, was ...

Dr Helen Smith of the British Arachnological Society, said: ‘The remarkable discovery of this dapper little spider on the ...

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A flock of sheep has been brought in by conservationists in a bid to help restore heath land surrounding Newstead Abbey. Sherwood Forest Trust is hoping 30 Black Hebridean sheep will help to keep ...

Rare sheep on a remote Scottish island are being left to starve to death, it has been claimed. Soay sheep have roamed wild on the archipelago of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides for thousands of years, ...

Nearly a quarter of a million trees have been planted so far in the Western Isles Croft Woodland Project. It is largely funded by the Point and Sandwick Trust which owns a community wind farm on the ...