Beguiled by blues – A guide to 'Blue' butterflies

Learn more about the butterflies of Kent and their habitats

Margery Thomas, Hothfield Volunteer and regular columnist looks at the lack of butterfly sightings in recent months, the work volunteers are doing to remove bracken and how this all impact the wider management of the last remaining fragments of heathland…

The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England, however.

One of the many benefits of using grazing livestock in conservation management is that they produce dung. Their dung acts in various ways to enhance the landscape and provides benefits for a range of organisms that would otherwise be excluded in a…

Hedges - they sit at boundaries, at the edges of gardens, fields, and roads. But too often, they’re relegated to the edges of our minds...