Factsheets

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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  • Aardvark

    Aardvark means 'earth-pig' in Afrikaans. They are very secretive animals so very little is known about their way of life. 

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  • Acid Rain

    Acid rain is a result of air pollution. When any type of fuel is burnt, lots of different chemicals are produced. These can mix in the atmosphere a...

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  • Activities on Environment and Wildlife

    We get many emails from young people asking us what they can do to play a greater part in the conservation movement, and so we have compiled this l...

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  • Adder

    One of our three native snakes, the adder is the UK’s only venomous snake.  However, they are not aggressive and no one has died from an adder bite...

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  • Albatross (Wandering)

    The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any bird and is perhaps the most magnificent of all twelve species of albatross.

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  • Amphibians

    Amphibians are vertebrates (animals with backbones) which are able, when adult, to live both in water and on land.

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  • Animal rights

    Should animals be given more rights, to live without suffering, in the way that humans are allowed to? Or are their feelings less important than th...

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  • Antarctica

    Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphe...

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  • Ass

    Asses live in desert or semi-desert areas, steppeland (grassy plains) and mountainous regions. They prefer hilly areas but will come down into the ...

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  • Australian Wildlife Part 1

    About 50 million years ago Australia was joined to a giant landmass called Gondwanaland but it then became separated and it is its isolation that h...

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  • Australian Wildlife Part 2

    Kangaroos, crocodiles, anteaters and kookaburras.

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  • Badgers

    Badgers are iconic countryside mammals widespread throught UK, Ireland and parts of Europe

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  • Bat (Common Long-Eared)

    The common long-eared bat is the second most common bat in the UK and is a highly agile hunter, using its unusually large ears to listen for prey.

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  • Bat (Natterer's)

    Like all species of bat in Britain, the Natterer's bat is less common than it used to be. The reason for its decline is that its food and shelter h...

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  • Bat (Pipistrelle)

    The pipistrelle is the smallest and most common of Britain's 18 species of bat. It belongs to the Vespertilionidae family of bats, known as ordinar...

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  • Bats (British)

    Bats are quite remarkable animals worthy of our interest and respect. They are the only mammals capable of controlled flight - and their aerobatic ...

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  • Bear (Grizzly)

    Grizzly bears are a North American subspecies of Brown Bear now found wild only in Canada and Alaska and in parks and reserves in Montana, Idaho, W...

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  • Beetle (Stag)

    The stag beetle is Britain's largest insect and one of the most well-known of all the beetles. The male is easily recognised because of his mouthpa...

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  • Biodiversity

    Biodiversity describes the whole range of the different varieties of living things and systems on this earth, including animal species, plant speci...

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  • Biosphere

    We humans not only live in the biosphere but are absolutely dependent upon it for almost every aspect of our existence. 

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  • Birds in the City

    Over the last hundred years or so, large cities and their surrounding housing suburbs have grown, replacing countryside habitats. Many species of b...

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  • Bison (Amercian)

    There are only about 500,000 bison alive today, of these, only about 11,250 are classed as truly 'wild'.  The rest are mainly on ranches or in mana...

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  • Blue Tit

    Although the blue tit is mainly a woodland bird it is one of our best-known garden birds.

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  • Boar (Wild)

    The wild boar lives in a family party that has a territory of 10 - 20 sq km but in the autumn, family groups come together to form herds of up to 5...

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  • Boats

    How does a boat or ship carrying heavy cargo float while that same cargo would sink to the bottom of the ocean if dumped overboard?

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