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.

A spike in popularity

The people behind our stories

On the move

Sacred simian

Feeling the pinch

WILD MONTH • As spring casts its rousing warmth across the country, get ready for your wildlife sightings to soar.

Hidden BRITAIN

STICKING TOGETHER • Nature-inspired innovations that really suck.

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 heads to our pebble-strewn shores to spot the species that thrive on shingle beaches.

CHOICE LOCATIONS

SPECIES TO LOOK OUT FOR

Gorillas in the midst of a pandemic • Close encounters with tourists may be exposing great apes to COVID-19.

Theme park could go ahead despite site’s protected status • Swanscombe peninsula is designated as an SSSI but campaigners fear it is not enough to save the wildlife haven from proposed development.

Cranes becoming more common

Stegonotus aplini

IN NUMBERS

It’s perfectly safe to airlift a rhinoceros • Flying rhinos upside-down looks ungainly but is it harmful, too? New research set out to find the answer.

Norway’s star wolf moved for safety

MARK CARWARDINE • The conservationist discusses Jair Bolsonaro’s actions concerning the Amazon rainforest and invites your thoughts on the subject.

Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui • Well-being fellow, Royal Horticultural Society and postdoctoral researcher, University of Sheffield Regular exposure to even a tiny patch of nature can make a world of difference to our overall health and well-being, as Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui set out to demonstrate.

DISTURBANCE IN THE DEEP • With land resources rapidly depleting, eyes are turning to the seabed as a whole new source of metals. But at what cost to marine wildlife?

Testing times

Nesting instincts • Birds’ nests are familiar structures, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Research is starting to reveal how these homes function.

Turning the tables

Nest structure: The long-tailed tit

Simple tips to help nesting birds

Helping hedgehogs • It may be the nation’s favourite mammal, but the hedgehog is rapidly vanishing from towns and countryside across the UK. Why have things gone so badly wrong for British hedgehogs? And, more importantly, what’s being done to help them?

Hedgehog first aid

The young carers • Kyra and Sophie, age 15, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Hedgehogs on campus

The campaigner

Hedgehogs and new homes

The educator

Give a hog a home

The ‘highway man’

THE BAT NEXT DOOR • Madagascar’s bats are helping to fight insect infestations in the country’s rice fields – so, can the locals learn to love their new neighbours?

ANIMALS’ CHARTER • Animals are alone within our society – they are living beings legally classified as ‘things’. Is it time we gave them their own rights?

ISLANDS AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD • The isolated Scottish islands of St Kilda provide a vital breeding station for seabirds. But how are the species faring in this remote Atlantic outpost?

Island mice

St Kilda: a potted history

Q&A

Virgin births

Bioacoustics

What is it?

At home • Bring a little extra...