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The OPAL water survey is asking people to find out how healthy or polluted their local lakes and ponds are.

With the International Year of Biodiversity already in full flow, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is encouraging more organisations to apply for funding for projects that help conserve the UK’s precious natural heritage.

You are biodiversity. Most of the oxygen you breathe comes from plankton in the oceans of the world and lush forests around the globe.

Bumblebee on lavender © BBThe fruit and vegetables you eat were likely to have been pollinated by bees, and the water you drink is part of a huge global cycle involving you, clouds, rainfall, glaciers, rivers and oceans.

Learn to spot which lichens growing on trees indicate poor air quality.

After 40 years of improving riverbanks and wetland areas, otters are now living in every county in England.