Blogs

We’re hard working to give much needed space for London’s magnificent diversity of insects; they help to make the city work. But there’s much more to do if we are to reverse their worrying declines.

As a trainee on the Heritage Lottery funded Keeping it Wild project, I was invited to attend the #iwill4nature campaign launch at ZSL London Zoo which was preceded by a Youth Voice Workshop ran by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered species). Both events were strongly focused on engaging the next generation of conservationists and were attended by a diverse group of young people from across London and beyond.

London is a city of leaves, with almost 8.5 million trees. With roughly one tree for every Londoner, our capital is one of the greenest in Europe.

Tempers are rising in London’s hinterlands and our ancient deer parks, as male red deer – stags – roar and joust to gain dominance of herds.