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Things to do this month

Nourishing nature: small ways we can all make a difference each summer

Our top tips for little ways to regenerate your local nature during summer

Best of the countryside

Grandmother, mother and child touch large tree

Countryside is key: the top five ways the countryside can tackle climate change

Our top five ways the countryside actively tackles the climate emergency.

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A group of people with a painted and adorned bicycle stand in front of solar panels and wind turbines

10 reasons why we love community energy – for people and planet

Our top ten reasons why community energy rocks – for people and the planet.

Two hands forming the shape of a heart against a tree covered in green moss

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Five young people cross stepping stones across a stream

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Best of the countryside

Best of the countryside

A man stands on dark peat and throws food to wetland birds

The bog blog: everything you never knew you needed to know about peat

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Celebrating our meadows

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Grandmother, mother and child touch large tree

Countryside is key: the top five ways the countryside can tackle climate change

Best of the countryside

A group of people with a painted and adorned bicycle stand in front of solar panels and wind turbines

10 reasons why we love community energy – for people and planet

Best of the countryside

Brown long-eared bat in flight - © BCT / Hugh Clark

A bat’s eye view

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Badger

Through the webcam

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A printed postcard with a bright dragon being slayed

Here be dragons!

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A head shot of actor Mackenzie Crook

Mackenzie Crook on his love of the landscape

Our pick

Spotting brilliant summer butterflies

Get your eyes peeled for butterflies fluttering by this summer…

A small blue-lilac butterfly on a yellow flower

Why this patch of Green Belt means so much to my family

Writer and walking enthusiast Lucy Furlong on how a patch of Green Belt land in Kingston-upon-Thames has become part of her family’s life

Four people's feet walking in outdoor shoes

Written in the stars

CPRE has long worked for dark skies over our countryside, not least to allow for the breathtaking experience of stargazing. Here, professional star-spotter Gary Fildes shares his journey to becoming a professional astronomer – and what the dark skies over Northumberland mean to him.

A woman stands outside Kielder Observatory looking over Kielder Water

The South Downs after dark

Nature writer and artist Tiffany Francis-Baker is the author of 2019’s Dark Skies; A Journey into the Wild Night. Here, she ventures out on a nocturnal expedition of the South Downs – and finds an extraordinary sense of tranquillity

Things to do this month

Things to do this month

Nourishing nature: small ways we can all make a difference each summer

Things to do this month

A small blue-lilac butterfly on a yellow flower

Spotting brilliant summer butterflies

Things to do this month

Mother Shipton moth

Marvellous moths

Things to do this month

Family stargazing

Looking up for late spring stargazing

Days out

A group of women in hiking gear walking through a sunny forest

Step into history with these pilgrims’ walking routes

A bird of prey display

Family days out

A busy play area with a carousel and miniature railway in the foreground

Visit England’s steam railways

Three young people cycle towards the camera and away from a railway-style bridge over a body of water below blue skies

Railways reinvented