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Enter the weird and wonderful world of fungi in south London's Great North Wood.

I was lucky enough to spend every day of the half-term week outside with the fabulous team from the London Wildlife Trust delivering our Wild Action Days to the youth organisations participating…

From first glance, it may seem like London can only be a habitat for birds which thrive in built up areas. Pigeons, for example, have curled toes, once adapted to life on rocky cliff faces, which…

In Melanesian mythology, a mysterious, huge serpent-like fish lives at the bottom of lakes. Known as Abaia, it considers all the creatures in their lakes their children and is fiercely protective…

Keeping it Wild Trainee Lee tackles the negative stigma and reveals more about London's reptiles.

For National Moth Week, Keeping it Wild Trainee Ishmael talks about their importance as some of the most diverse and successful organisms on earth.

In my time so far as a Keeping it Wild trainee, I have been lucky enough to be based at Hutchinson's Bank in Croydon. Here we are helping to conserve the rich chalk grassland habitat. There’s…

“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another” (Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647 – 1717)

Oak trees, of which there are many in the Great North Wood, are host to several species of a fascinating group of plant parasites called gall wasps. These tiny, stingless wasps produce bizarre…

How well can you identify insects? Can you tell the difference between a harlequin and a 7-spot ladybird? The UK is home to over 30,000 different species of invertebrates and London Wildlife Trust…