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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IN FOCUS

WILD MONTH • With verdant hedgerows, the hum of insects, warmer days and milder nights, summer is in full swing.

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 uphill where the meadow wildflowers are at their best right now and lapwings are taking flight.

SPECIES TO LOOK OUT FOR

CHOICE LOCATIONS

Hidden BRITAIN

ALL UNDER ONE ROOF • Shining guest ants aren’t the only ones moving in.

Coral reefs centre stage at London Zoo exhibit • The new aquarium will showcase the world’s corals and scientists’ efforts to halt their decline.

Animal sentience recognised in UK law • Ban on hunting trophy imports and review of wildlife crime part of raft of Government measures.

Untreated sewage a major source of microplastics found in rivers

Strumigenys ayersthey

IN NUMBERS

Genome studies reveal four giraffe species

There’s no escaping Asian hornets • Is there any way to survive attacks from this wasp?

MARK CARWARDINE • The conservationist discusses Britain’s new fossil fuel projects, from airports to coal mines, and invites your thoughts on the subject.

Kristal Ambrose • For Kristal Ambrose, Goldman Prize winner 2020, grassroots youth activism is key to finding solutions to worldwide environmental challenges.

THE LOST VOICE • The regent honeyeater – a tiny bird found in Australian forests – has become so rare that it is forgetting how to sing its own song.

How to breed a regent honeyeater in captivity

EXTINCTION A FORCE OF NATURE • Today, extinction is a term we associate with the spiralling loss of species at human hands. Yet it is also an entirely natural phenomenon that is as creative as it is destructive.

Mob rule • In the well-defined strata of meerkat society, Mum’s firmly in charge – but, despite the dominance of a fierce matriarch, it takes a mob to raise a litter of hungry, playful pups.

Why mo oths matter • Though largely disliked by the general public, moths provide valuable ecological services – which makes the sharp decline in their British British h numbers all the more ore worryiing worrying..

‘Mothing’ made simple

CALLING GARDENERS! • Gardens are important places for moths and hundreds of species may be living in your neighbourhood. Why not cultivate their favourite foodplants?

Do Not Disturb • With overseas holidays largely off the cards, Britain is bracing itself for a season of ‘staycations’. But what does this mean for our local wildlife?

How to photograph seals

Spot the signs: disturbed seals

4 wildlife hides for photography

TIGER of the WOODS • Follow a raptor monitor as she delves deep into the forests of Shropshire in search of a rare but particularly magnificent bird of prey: the goshawk.

A protected species

Back from the brink

Forest feasts

Hanging out with the pod 2015 • Franco undertook a breathless dive to photograph a pod of snoozing sperm whales in the Caribbean waters off Dominica.

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