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.

Dreaming of a green Christmas…

They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Snow hare spotting • It takes a beady pair of eyes to track down this moorland mammal

“A stroke of luck”

Soft on the inside • Winter marches on but sensitive molluscs know how to stave off the chill

Roy Dennis receives RSPB award • Raptor conservationist wins the charity’s most prestigious prize

Seabird ocean hotspot to be safeguarded • One of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world has been created in the Atlantic

Primeval performers • As flowers exit stage left, ferns steal the show

Lone changer

Fall of the finches • Avian disease strikes colourful garden visitor

A rattlesnake’s rattle

GILLIAN BURKE • Even in the darkness of midwinter, there are reasons to be hopeful

GETTING AN EARFUL

Drug lord’s hippos

Lydia Burgess-Gamble • A late diagnosis of learning difficulties didn’t prevent a successful career in natural flood management

Something fishy • The coral-reef fish that is less likely to ‘misbehave’ when it knows it’s being watched by its co-workers

Eunota mecocheila

Bird botanists

Lost & Found VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY • Walrus, Tenby

FLOCKS OF KNOTS

Surprise findings in Japan

Koalas in crisis • Numbers of Australia’s iconic marsupial fall by a third

A murder of crows

Ancient roots • From Christmas festivities to death rites, our relationship with the yew goes deep

NEWS ROUND UP

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES ORCAS • Lucy Cooke on menopausal matriarchs and mummies’ boys

Ghost in the gloom • Hen harriers come to roost in the fading light

Grey wolf

MARK CARWARDINE OPINION • “These massacres are one of the most sickening demonstrations of animal cruelty I’ve ever seen”

Intensive farming protects biodiversity • New evidence suggests that wildlife benefits from agriculture becoming more intensive, not less

I heard it chew my head

COME TOGETHER STARLING MURMURATIONS • Catch the breathtaking bedtime displays of roiling starling masses while you can

TOP FIVE PLACES

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BLOWING BUBBLES COMMON WHELK • Uncover the origins of the mysterious spongy white balls tumbling around our shorelines

Identify the eggs you find on the beach

BBC wildlife • Save when you subscribe to the digital edition

POLE STAR • As winter descends on Wapusk National Park, Daisy Gilardini braves the chill to capture the life and times of an Arctic icon

The shocking truth about the UK’s primate trade • A long-awaited overhaul in animal welfare legislation is set to stop the suffering of primates still being kept as pets

Behind bars • Stats reveal the shocking reality for UK pet primates

MANGROVE MAY HEM • Welcome to northern Peru – and the floating mangrove island that a colony of magnificent frigatebirds calls home

When to pick up, when to leave alone • Both adults and children have an instinct for collecting natural treasures – but do we need to be more careful about what we...