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…

Slow worms, fast spiders and fields full of mushrooms among this month's highlights.

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

BBOWT community officer Barbara Polonara on how she helped establish a green haven for people and wildlife in the heart of Slough.

BBOWT conservation intern Holly Gray says these Government plans could make a real difference to people and wildlife.

In the next in our series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Kate Clayton-Hathway to find out what motivates her to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.

Dave Dunleavy, ecology trainee, describes how to survey for water voles and how BBOWT's Water Vole Recovery Project has been helping them return from the brink

Chrystal Thompson looks back over a busy year as a conservation trainee with BBOWT at Greenham and Crookham Commons

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

Butterflies and flowers abound in the meadows of Finemere Wood