The Eden Rivers Trust said it was looking to find "safe havens", where crayfish in particular "might still thrive, free from invasive species", in the North Pennines fellsides. Tests involve sending ...

The UK's only native crayfish species was thought to have vanished from Winnall Moors Nature Reserve in Hampshire in 1991 as a disease spread by invasive signal crayfish from the US wiped out the ...

The UK’s endangered native crayfish species could be completely wiped out after a deadly plague was identified in one of its few strongholds. Around 40 per cent of Britain’s remaining 20,000-strong ...

Hundreds of native crayfish bred in Powys will be released at a secret site in Cornwall to slow the decline in the species. White clawed crayfish are endangered because of the spread of the invasive ...

A rare white-clawed crayfish has been discovered at a nature reserve where it was thought to have died out more than 30 years ago, conservationists said. The UK’s only native crayfish species was ...

Radio transmitters are being fitted to a ferocious foreign crayfish species to stop them spreading through our rivers. The virile beasts, originally from America, are threatening native crayfish in ...

Glorifying criminals is a risk in true-crime podcasts, but sometimes the subject matter is just too rich to resist. Radio 5’s Gangster strand returns for a new run with the story of Linda Calvey, the ...

A BREEDING scheme to rescue one of Britain’s most endangered species needs funding. Natural England and the Environment Agency are working on a breeding scheme in North Yorkshire to halt the decline ...

The crayfish plague has been identified in a river in the south west, putting the population of the endangered fish at risk File photo: the Crayfish plague has been identified in the River Allen in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Kennet Crayfish Company has launched the largest processing facility for crayfish in Britain. The Berkshire-based company uses an eco-friendly, humane method and uses pure, chalk-stream water to ...

The formidable American Signal Crayfish poses a massive threat to native species in rivers, lakes and ponds. Although on the surface everything might appear normal, beneath the waterline the crayfish ...