Young people working to protect a delicate endangered butterfly have received a financial boost. The funding will help members of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) charity regenerate the habitat of the pearl-bordered fritillary on Bodmin Moor.

Four out of five children polled by the Children's Play Council said they would rather play outdoors than indoors. But, despite the Government's concerns about obesity, sports fields are still being sold off.

These residents were so tired of looking at rubbish-strewn derelict land near their homes - they transformed it into a nature reserve.

By CHARLIE DIMMOCK REAL hands-on, get-down-anddirty gardening is very trendy this year. It's amazing how much useful work you can achieve in just a few hours and how much good you can do yourself. Gardening is great exercise.

By Jasbir Authi CHILDREN in inner-city Birmingham are doing their bit to make sure that England remains a green and pleasant land for future generations by planting new trees.