ITV reports with crowds expected to flock to the coast for a ‘staycation’ this summer, the police and conservation experts are appealing for people to protect the wildlife and environment.

With uncertainly surrounding international holidays growing after Portugal was removed from the travel green list, more people are expected to opt to spend their summer here. It’s prompted police and groups such as the RSPB to ramp up their efforts to protest nesting birds and seals along the region’s coastline.

Andy Bloomfield, a conservation worker at Holkham said that it’s really important that people don’t try and get too close to the terns there as doing so can put the species at risk. 

THE GUARDIAN reports more than 80% of us live under light-polluted skies but it’s not too late to embrace the darkness.  For most of us, the transition from light to dark is a quiet one, but in the woods on the Dartington estate near Totnes, twilight brings with it a burst of energy.

It is 8.30pm and this is rush hour. There is a cacophony of screeching, snuffles and scuffles, as songbirds return to nests for a night of rest, while nocturnal creatures such as badgers and foxes are taking their first tentative steps out, off to find food and mates under the cloak of darkness.