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London’s honey producers go head to head at Royal Festival Hall

£4.1m to be shared between Walpole Park and Raphael Park.

Time is running out for the wild tiger. A fancy fundraiser in Knightsbridge last week hoped a smattering of stars would help raise a shedload of cash for the cause.

Beauty is more than fur deep. This is the message from the Zoological Society of London this New Year.

Image: Gouache Scroll, Bengal, c.1800 ©V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum As the Year of the Tiger enters its final two months, Asia House mounts an exhibition and raft of tigrish events to keep the plight of the endangered stripy beast prominent as 2010 draws to …

Concerned about our urban canopy cover? Don’t just be a tree hugger – arm yourself with the latest information on the subject for arboreal Boris bashing at Kensington’s Norland Conservation Society annual lecture. Jim Smith, the London Tree and Woodland Framework Manager at the Forestry …

Caecillians, or ‘naked snakes’ don’t get a lot of press coverage. These shiny, slippery, wormy things have yet to feature on the otherwise comprehensive wildlife calendar that great aunt Londonist insists on buying us each Christmas. An upcoming event at the Zoological Society of London …

Try as we might, we can’t think of a recent art exhibition that ticks as many boxes marked ‘awesome’ as this one. Leading British artists such as Peter Blake, Tracy Emin and Rachel Whiteread (tick) have created works of art based around pandas (tick), on …

Two pigeons, pecking around a copy of The Evening Standard outside Bethnal Green station Gordon: Sparrows. Loads of them. Taking all our bird feed. This is our borough. This is our place. Bloody cheek. Brenda: Says here their number has dropped 70 per cent since …