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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There is still hope for the northern white rhino

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

The secret rewilders • Stripy little pigs are busy engineering our woodlands

Wild Isles Live • A journey behind the scenes of the acclaimed BBC series

Impact of avian flu is worse than feared • Gannets, great skuas and roseate terns have been devastated by the disease

Nesting site of secretive turtle revealed by locals • The cooperation of communites was critical to new observations of rare river turtle in tropical India

Guiding lights for bees • The spectacular flowers of horse chestnut burst into bloom this month

An antelope’s cloven hooves

BABY STEPS

Skywalker saga • New hope as a rare gibbon named after the Star Wars hero has been discovered living in Myanmar

Drones can help coral • Scientists are uncovering the mysteries of deep coral reefs with underwater drones and eDNA

Sphaerotheca varshaabhu

Seals in Suffolk

GILLIAN BURKE • “Is creating an interstellar human population really possible?”

Blue and fin whales are interbreeding • A new genetic study finds that blue whales are mating with fin whales and producing fertile young

HELLO YELLOW

New law restricts pet monkey ownership • Welfare of primates set to improve as private keepers in England will soon require a licence

Calling all conchologists

Red alert • It’s nesting season for the red mason bee

How the cooperation of coyote mothers is key to the species’ survival

Singing in the rain • The strange springtime song of the chaffinch

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TOP OF THE WORLD SOARING ANDEAN CONDORS • The heights of the cliffs and canyons of the Andes is where to spot these mighty creatures

TOP FIVE PLACES • Where to see condors soaring

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE WATER ANOLE • The riparian reptile that evades danger by blowing bubbles

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TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED • With the BBC series Mammals airing this spring, the series producer reveals how the crew captured some of our favourite animals in a whole new light

HOPE IN SCIENCE • IVF is providing one last chance to save the northern white rhino from extinction

ON THE HUNT • Does allowing wealthy tourists to kill wild animals actually help conservation?

Fast facts

BEFORE THE DINOSAURS • Meet the bizarre animals that once ruled the world

Anomalocaris • An apex predator with alarming appendages

Arthropleura • The largest invertebrate to ever walk the Earth

Inostrancevia • A sabre-toothed ancestor of modern mammals

Scutosaurus • The giant lizard that was built like a bulldog

Tiktaalik • The fish that led a revolution on land

Dimetrodon • A dinosaur lookalike with a hole in the head

Coelacanth • The ‘extinct’ fish that was rediscovered in the...