The swallowtail is Britain’s largest and most spectacular butterfly. Most British butterflies are adapted to surviving gruelling, cold, wet, capricious summers, which is why many…
View More A very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summersTag: Norfolk
Norfolk pub put at risk by ‘Britain’s most flooded road’
Dennis Birch estimates his pub loses about £3,000 a week when the road into the village of Welney is closed because of flooding – and…
View More Norfolk pub put at risk by ‘Britain’s most flooded road’Norfolk hawker dragonfly no longer endangered, scientists say
A rare dragonfly is no longer considered endangered after spreading its wings across England, but conservationists have said its wetland habitat is still at risk…
View More Norfolk hawker dragonfly no longer endangered, scientists sayEinstein on the run: how the world’s greatest scientist hid from Nazis in a Norfolk hut
In September 1933, a humble wooden hut on a secluded Norfolk heath became the improbable location of one of the most important hideouts in history.…
View More Einstein on the run: how the world’s greatest scientist hid from Nazis in a Norfolk hut‘Even pigeons look amazing’: the multicoloured magic of a biofluorescent nature walk
It is a murky, dank night in the middle of the countryside, a tawny owl is calling, and I am in raptures, stroking a slug.…
View More ‘Even pigeons look amazing’: the multicoloured magic of a biofluorescent nature walkNorfolk dual carriageway plan would ‘wreck’ rare bat colony, experts say
The epicentre of an “exceptional” super-colony of one of Britain’s most endangered bats has been discovered in the path of a proposed road across a…
View More Norfolk dual carriageway plan would ‘wreck’ rare bat colony, experts say‘Losing your home is a massive thing’: how the climate crisis came to Norfolk
On a grey, bitterly cold March day, a large yellow digger is smashing its bucket into a small bungalow on the dunes. There is a…
View More ‘Losing your home is a massive thing’: how the climate crisis came to NorfolkEnvironment Agency told to protect wetlands in landmark court case
The high court has ordered the Environment Agency to reduce water abstraction and protect England’s rare wetland habitats, in a landmark case that confirms that…
View More Environment Agency told to protect wetlands in landmark court case‘Ludicrous’: limits on police wildlife inquiries on Queen’s estates decried
Wildlife campaigners have said it is “ludicrous” that police have to ask the Queen’s permission before they can enter her private estates to investigate alleged…
View More ‘Ludicrous’: limits on police wildlife inquiries on Queen’s estates decriedEnvironment Agency faces legal battle over water removal in Norfolk Broads
A couple are taking the Environment Agency to the high court in a landmark case to stop the abstraction of water damaging internationally important wetlands…
View More Environment Agency faces legal battle over water removal in Norfolk Broads