How nature can nurture your mental health and relationships
As we mark World Mental Health Day, Stephen Maginn, from Relate NI, explains why connecting with nature is so important for nurturing our mental health and relationships.
As we mark World Mental Health Day, Stephen Maginn, from Relate NI, explains why connecting with nature is so important for nurturing our mental health and relationships.
The Wildlife Trusts have published a new report which examines the effects of volunteering in nature on people’s mental health.
The Small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
The Heath bumblebee is not only found on heathland, but also in gardens and parks. It nests in small colonies of less than 100 workers in all kinds of spots, such as old birds' nests, mossy…
Cross-leaved heath is a type of heather that likes bogs, heathland and moorland. It has distinctive pink, bell-shaped flowers that attract all kinds of nectar-loving insects.
This bog-loving butterfly is mostly found in the north of the UK, where it takes to the wing in summer.
Heathlands form some of the wildest landscapes in the lowlands, where agriculture and development jostle for space, containing and limiting natural processes. Once considered as waste land of…
Concentrix in Belfast has partnered with Ulster Wildlife as part of their Earth Month campaign launched this week, aimed at raising awareness of environmental issues and sustainable development…
Yesterday, leading wildlife organisations, including Ulster Wildlife, published a landmark State of Nature 2023 report. It shows that nature is continuing to decline at an alarming rate across…
Albie has had a love of nature from a young age. He first started getting out in nature as a Scout. He became a Scout leader and outward bound instructor, mostly working as a volunteer youth…
Nora’s study of bird behaviour explores how small bird communities flock together to ward off larger predators. Nature has many things to teach us and is now widely acknowledged as a key…
The health of the marine environment, its protected habitats and species found off Islandmagee in County Antrim are under considerable threat if a marine licence application for a gas storage…