The Guardian • 2024-09-20

Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Independent • 2024-09-17

Warning of ‘butterfly emergency’ as survey finds record-low number of insects

Butterflies are a key indicator species; when they are in trouble we know that the wider environment is in trouble too

The Guardian • 2024-09-20

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve

In a Guardian interview, Tony Juniper says housebuilding plans could be an opportunity to create ‘wild belts’ around cities to help habitat and species recovery