The Scarlet Malachite Beetle What Is The Scarlet Malachite Beetle? Flighty and small with red and metallic green colouring, the scarlet malachite beetle is one of Britain's rarest and most threatened insects. It is about 1cm long and visits flowers…
Crabs and crabbing I finally got round to drawing crabs lately. Hunting crabs is a big part of what made me and to see a crab even now, whatever species, brings a buzz of excitement deep inside that takes me…
It’s too late for the Steller’s Sea Cow… I guess that’s its message. Whilst many people, most of them sailors, saw, hunted and tasted Steller’s sea cow, it bears the name Steller simply because Georg Wilhelm Steller was the only…
Fashion Revolution Week This week 23rd - 29th April 2018 is fashion revolution week. The 24th April marked the 5th anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed and injured thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh. The factories there…
Freshwater Habitats Trust This year is the 30th anniversary of Freshwater Habitats Trust and we are honoured to have been asked to produce a range of products to celebrate it. We’ve borrowed the ‘30’ from 30th and are giving 30%…
Conservation in action This week, our babies will perform on Autumnwatch! In 1995 I was asked by English Nature, now Natural England, to create an ‘insurance population’ of Tadpole Shrimps (Triops cancriformis) as part of the Species Recovery Programme. The…
Lifeforms Conservation We'd like to give you a brief introduction to the conservation projects that Lifeforms have been involved with in the past and those we're working on at the moment. We've been directly involved in the conservation of threatened…