Campaigners want the status for the area – but what would it mean in practice?

A countryside organisation has launched a campaign to crown the UK's 16th National Park to mark its 100th birthday. The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in Somerset wants to have the Somerset ...

A Somerset Levels farmer says his land could become "unfarmable" if flooding continues. Alan Franks, 78, whose family has been in dairy farming since his farmer began working the land on Blakeway in ...

What’s proposed?: Campaigners want the Somerset Levels to become Britain’s largest wetland national park, a process that could take years. Flooding concerns: Residents fear the designation could ...

A record number of bitterns have been seen on the Somerset Levels, and with that has attracted large numbers of wildlife tourists. The BBC's Ross Pollard caught up with some keen bird spotters who ...

Experts shocked as analysis finds no traces of eel DNA in area once teeming with the endangered fish Eel experts say they are shocked to find no evidence of the animal in the network of drainage ...

Farmers on the Somerset Levels say the impact of one of the wettest winters in decades will be felt long into spring, as floodwater continues to blanket land and financial pressures mount. The ...

Standing on the hills looking out across flat green fields, linked by a network of hedgerows, copses and small settlements, the Somerset Levels looks like quintessential English countryside. But this ...