Nature

From busy beavers to gentle bison: Why you should go rewilding in the country this summer
Rewilding

From busy beavers to gentle bison: Why you should go rewilding in the country this summer

This summer, take a trip to your nearest rewilding project to improve your health and see some cute animals

How I made friends with a great oak tree named Quercus
Trees

How I made friends with a great oak tree named Quercus

Laurent Tillon tells the story of a tiny acorn that grew, against all the odds, into the tree he calls Quercus

Here’s a dozen fascinating trees you really should visit this year
Family Days Out

Here’s a dozen fascinating trees you really should visit this year

Author Paul Wood takes us on an arboreal tour of Britain

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts
Nature

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts

Springwatch’s Chris Packham: ‘It’s tough out there for life’
TV

Springwatch’s Chris Packham: ‘It’s tough out there for life’

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Inside the Big Issue: The Salt Path to redemption
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The Salt Path to redemption

The flowers are listening – so we’d better start talking sense
Paul McNamee

The flowers are listening – so we’d better start talking sense

Photographer of the year Zed Nelson on documenting the decimation of nature by humans
Photography

Photographer of the year Zed Nelson on documenting the decimation of nature by humans

Why everyone should have a favourite tree
Paul McNamee

Why everyone should have a favourite tree

Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition is back for Earth Day – judged by the legendary Chris Packham
Kids Cover Competition

Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition is back for Earth Day – judged by the legendary Chris Packham

Rachel Reeves sets Labour on collision course with environmentalists over ‘bats and newts’
Nature

Rachel Reeves sets Labour on collision course with environmentalists over ‘bats and newts’

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain
Rewilding

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain

Calling MPs of all stripes: Our planet is counting on your vote on the Climate and Nature Bill
Roz Savage MP

Calling MPs of all stripes: Our planet is counting on your vote on the Climate and Nature Bill

‘We have to work with nature’: What UK’s only wild bison herd can teach us about the nature crisis
Rewilding

‘We have to work with nature’: What UK’s only wild bison herd can teach us about the nature crisis

Rewilding pioneer Derek Gow: ‘We’ve left very little room for nature to exist at all’
Rewilding

Rewilding pioneer Derek Gow: ‘We’ve left very little room for nature to exist at all’

The growth of rewilding in Britain offers hope for a wilder future in 2025
Rebecca Wrigley

The growth of rewilding in Britain offers hope for a wilder future in 2025

Inside the Big Issue: Grab life by the horns
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Grab life by the horns

From ancient civilisations to industrial revolutions: How horses shaped the world we live in today
Horses

From ancient civilisations to industrial revolutions: How horses shaped the world we live in today

‘A little bit of paradise’: Residents create memorial garden to honour victim of fatal London flat fire
Housing

‘A little bit of paradise’: Residents create memorial garden to honour victim of fatal London flat fire

Behind the secret birth of London’s first baby beavers in 400 years – and what it means
Rewilding

Behind the secret birth of London’s first baby beavers in 400 years – and what it means

‘It was like the place was waiting for me’: Three Big Issue vendors went to the Lake District – and were transformed
Our vendors

‘It was like the place was waiting for me’: Three Big Issue vendors went to the Lake District – and were transformed

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‘Nature is slowly healing’: How rewilding is bringing Britain’s extinct species back from the dead
Conservation

‘Nature is slowly healing’: How rewilding is bringing Britain’s extinct species back from the dead

Why did humans never learn to fly?
Evolution

Why did humans never learn to fly?

How London’s history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital: ‘They have a right to exist’
Environment

How London’s history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital: ‘They have a right to exist’

Killing in the name of conservation is tricky business. Because we can, does it mean we should?
Nature

Killing in the name of conservation is tricky business. Because we can, does it mean we should?