BBC Wildlife Magazine

BBC Wildlife Magazine is a celebration of the natural world, featuring all the latest discoveries, news and views on wildlife, conservation and environmental issues. With strong broadcasting links, authoritative journalism and award-winning photography, BBC Wildlife Magazine is essential reading for anyone with a passion for wildlife who wants to understand, experience and enjoy nature more.

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Practise makes perfect • Birds are not born singing and this is the time to hear them learning their lines

Scents of direction • Love is in the air for the tobacco budworm looking to attract a mate

Life on Our Planet • New Netflix series tells the four-billion-year story of how life found a way

Iceland resumes killing • Despite widespread condemnation, a temporary ban has been dropped, allowing whaling to continue

Flying in for the winter • The autumn full moon heralds the arrival of the migratory woodcock

ORIGIN OF PIECESAN AN ATOMICAL MISCELLANY • A stag’s antlers

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GILLIAN BURKE • “Rather than tell people what to do, she listened instead”

LEGENDS OF THE FALL

Helen Senn • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland biologist on how genetic research supports conservation

Penguin chicks perish in Antarctica • Catastrophic melting of sea-ice in Antarctica has led to the loss of thousands of emperor penguin chicks

Capropodocerus kamaitachi

Takahē released into wild in New Zealand • The Endangered South Island bird has been released in a third site, in an effort to establish a new population

NIGHT LIFE

Rise in Asian hornets spotted this year • Increase in the number of Asian hornets reported in the UK poses a big threat to native species

Tales of the unexpected

Let the battle begin • The non-native Chinese water deer kicks off its annual rut in November

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES BLACK LARK • Lucy Cooke on a steppe-dweller who’s queen of her own dung hill

Be wowed by worms • Marvel at the alchemy quietly taking place beneath our feet

POO CORNER ID GUIDE • Canada goose

NIGHT MOVES PARADING PINE MARTENS • Matching good looks with impressive agility, these nocturnal mustelids are a joy to observe

LOOK CLOSER

TROUBLED WATER FAIRY WASP • Meet a dastardly winged insect that parasitises beetle eggs in the depths of garden ponds

Small change: economies of scale

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EPIC • With the long-awaited third instalment of the BBC’s Planet Earth airing this autumn, the series producers share their insights, highlights and behind-the-scenes secrets

A chat with Matt Brandon • The series producer on sharks, seals and sandwiches

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR • Enjoy a selection of this year’s winning images from the Natural History Museum competition that showcases some of the best nature photography on the planet

IN PARTNERSHIP • Humans are definitely not the only species to exhibit same-sex sexual behaviour. But is it the evolutionary conundrum it’s made out to be?

STANDING TALL • After years of conflict, Chad’s revitalised Zakouma National Park is welcoming back elephants and a rare subspecies of giraffe

ART & SOUL • The winning entries from this year’s Wildlife Artist of the Year...