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.

Discover Wildlife • See baby animals in the wild online

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BBC Wildlife Magazine

JUST GOT BETTER!

Wild Times • What’s happening right now

The big butterfly bonanza • In autumn, a staggering number of butterflies reach the pine and fir forests of Mexico

Time for cubs to go scouting • Autumn sees young red foxes take their first tentative steps into adulthood

Seven Worlds, One Planet concert gets the green light • Musical score by Oscar-winner Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea takes centre stage at UK premiere

Riverbanks to become wild woodland Corridors • Government announces that thousands of hectares of trees are to be planted along England’s watercourses

Beside the seaside • Watch out for purple sandpipers on wild coastal walks

Preparing for the big sleep • Bats are getting ready to begin hibernation

ORIGIN OF PIECES • AN ANATOMICAL MISCELLANY

GILLIAN BURKE • BBC Wildlife’s new columnist delivers a passionate manifesto for a sustainable future

wild TIMES

Top 10 blood-sucking species

Jonathan Grey • A childhood spent as a wildlife photographer’s apprentice led to a fascination with aquatic ecology

Food fighters • Bird feeders give some species a boost, but might be harming others, according to a new study

Feiruz wood lizard

Lost & Found • Sei whale, Firth of Forth

The smell of success • Scat detection dogs help monitor cheetah populations in Africa

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • A shrewdness of apes

Shocking pink • The unseasonably bright fruits of the spindle tree add a splash of colour to our autumnal landscape

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke meets the murderous meerket matriarchs

Gathering in the treetops • It’s party season for one of Britain’s brashest birds

POO CORNER • Pine marten

MARK CARWARDINE • “Most houses built on the green belt don’t help the housing crisis at all”

Toxic masculinity • Male milkweed butterflies eat their young to get the chemical weaponry they need to defend themselves

PUPPY LOVE • In the autumn, thousands of seals come ashore in one of Britain’s most spectacular natural events

FOREVER YOUNG • A slower pace of life is behind the longevity of the world’s oldest ever animal: a humble clam

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GRAND DESIGNS • Thanks to their impressive stature, hippos just can’t help engineering the ecosystems around them

BBC COUNTRYFILE MAGAZINE

INSTA-GLORY • The sloth has had an image makeover. Once reviled as useless and lazy, it’s now the most beloved animal of Instagram. So, why the change?

“People don’t want to swim in diluted sewage” • Tony Juniper believes that nature’s recovery depends on joined-up action

PINK WAVE • Thousands of leggy birds flock at the coastal lagoons of Yucatán in south-east Mexico to feed and breed. Meet the fiery Caribbean flamingos

Inside COP26 • The 26th annual climate conference will shortly take place in Glasgow. But this time, it’s more than just another summit

WHERE HARES SHINE GOLD • Ireland’s Rathlin Island is famous for its expansive views and puffin colony. But there’s another secretive, almost mythical...