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.

Hare we go again...

The people behind our stories

IN FOCUS

WILD MONTH • Summer may be slowly fading away but there is still so much to enjoy outdoors this September.

Hidden BRITAIN

NAME CALLING

MIKE DILGER’S WILDLIFE WATCHING • In his series of great places to watch wildlife in the UK, the star of BBC One’s The One Show this month takes a look at our heather-clad uplands – the hotly debated home of raptors, red deer and the iconic red grouse.

SPECIES TO LOOK OUT FOR

CHOICE LOCATIONS

Chris Packham and others launch challenge to badger culling • Not-for-profit Wild Justice claims culling is cruel and wants to take Natural England to court.

Social distancing • The UK’s largest breeding colony of Arctic terns has collapsed, and lockdown may be to blame.

The mystery of the glacier mice

Sodwana pygmy seahorse

IN NUMBERS

Norway suppresses wolves

European bison are native to Britain • The huge herbivores’ planned return to Kent woodland sparked fierce debate about their past.

MARK CARWARDINE • The conservationist discusses the weakening of environmental law in the US and invites your thoughts on the subject.

Professor Steve Ormerod Co-director of Cardiff University’s Water Research Institute • A life working with dippers reveals the extent of plastic pollution in our rivers, and how those microplastics are making their way through the food-web.

NATURE on your doorstep • At the height of lockdown, BBC Wildlife was proud to support a nature writing competition for children, promising to publish the winning entries. Competition organiser Lucy McRobert explains why such things matter in times like these…

The Apple Tree

Flutter & Flims

The Homecoming

BEAVERS Wetland ARCHITECTS • As the landmark River Otter Beaver Trial draws to an end, what has it taught us about the way these industrious dam builders influence the form and function of our wild places?

Good influence: bringing back beavers has a knock-on effect • Four species that have benefitted from the resident dam builders in Devon.

The transformation of the Otter Valley • How Devon’s resident beavers rapidly created a new wetland habitat.

AFTER LIFE • Do animals grieve for their dead? Do they have an awareness of what death is? Researchers have been trying to find out…

Proof of death

Animals in mourning

Highland FEUD • The unlicensed culling of mountain hares was banned this summer, but the debate around the management of this moorland beauty has only been reignited.

Eve Massi • Campaigns and press officer for OneKind

TIMELINE • Key events in the driven grouse shooting debate.

Peter Cairns • Director of Scotland: The Big Picture

Matt Cross • Journalist and field sports advocate

The different types of sport shooting

Ross Ewin • Political & press officer for the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC)

Alison Johnstone • MSP Scottish Green Part

Dr Ruth Tingay • Conservationist and author of blog Raptor Persecution UK

Penguin Puzzle • Antarctica’s chinstrap penguins are in decline, their demise a sign of greater changes at play. Now, scientists are trying to find out what’s ailing this...