We've produced a number of factsheets on a range of topics from Animal Facts to Environmental facts as part of our commitment to encouraging young people's understanding of the environment and of the need for sustainability.
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A snowflake is one of the most recognisable symbols of winter weather, used on weather forecasts across the world. Snowflake come in millions of di...
Read MoreFar from being just ‘dirt’ or ‘mud’ beneath our feet, soil is one of the most diverse ecosystems on our planet. Healthy soil is a life support syst...
Read MoreThe grey squirrel was introduced to Great Britain in the mid-19th century. There is now an estimated population of over 2.5 million making them muc...
Read MoreThe red squirrel, the original 'Squirrel Nutkin' of Beatrix Potter fame, is one of our favourite British mammals but it is declining in numbers and...
Read MoreThe three-spined stickleback is one of the most familiar fish of Britain's freshwater streams and ponds.
Read MoreThe stoat is sometimes mistaken for its close relative, the weasel, but it is larger and has a distinctive black tip to its tail.
Read MorePolar bears and penguins never bump into each other! Why is this? The answer, of course, is simple; polar bears live only in the Arctic (the North ...
Read MoreThe United Nations says that sustainability means “meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...
Read MoreFor centuries, mute swans were known as 'birds royal' because only the king or a few specially favoured subjects could keep them. They were often s...
Read MoreTamarins and marmosets are the smallest monkeys (primates) in the world. The golden lion tamarin is the largest and related to the golden headed an...
Read MoreAbout the size of a shetland pony, the tapir is a rather odd looking animal. Not only has it a long and flexible snout like a short trunk, but it h...
Read MoreThe name tarantula is generally applied to any large, hairy spider, especially to the furry, bird eating spiders of South America.
Read MoreThe tiger is the largest member of the cat family. The Bengal tiger is one of the five surviving races of tiger.
Read MoreThe Siberian tiger is a very rare species of tiger. From an estimated low in 2010 of 360, in May 2015 the Russian Government announced that the Si...
Read MoreThere were originally fifteen different subspecies of Galapagos giant tortoise each evolved to suit the conditions on the different islands.
Read MoreAlong with habitat destruction, wildlife crimes such as poaching currently pose the largest threat to the future of some of the world’s most endang...
Read MoreThe word tsunami (pronounced soo-NAH-mee) is Japanese, and it means ‘harbour wave’.
Read MoreGreen Turtles are found in all the warmer oceans and in the Mediterranean. They have thick, heavy, bony shells, covered in plate-like scales.
Read MoreA quadrat is a frame used in geography and ecology studies to section off a standard sized area for study. Predictions can be made about distributi...
Read MoreVivisection is the practice of experimenting on live animals for scientific and medical purposes.
Read MoreThe field vole is also called the short-tailed vole. It is very similar to the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) but the latter has red-brown fur...
Read MoreWater voles are often mistakenly called water rats, but they are only distantly related to rats. Water voles have a chubby face with a blunt nose a...
Read MoreWalruses are found in the sub-zero temperature Arctic seas from Alaska, Canada and Greenland to Russia.
Read MoreWarthogs are mostly found in central, eastern and southern Africa. Both sexes have the prominent tusks and two warts on either side of the face.
Read MoreThe weasel is Britain's smallest carnivore and belongs to the same family as the stoat and otter. It is a fierce hunter and is usually only spotted...
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