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.

What’s in bloom right now?

Animals aren’t goodies and baddies – that’s the problem

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Small but mighty • Moss is a key weapon in the ght against climate change

“A beautiful world opens up”

Elephant poaching drops to 20-year low • Protection e orts paying o, but “no room for complacency”, says expert

Coal tits are preparing for cold weather • Keep a close eye on the way these garden visitors gather and stash seeds

Far from the average jaguar • A high-fish diet is enough to turn these prowling loners into sociable team workers

Fife coast foraging • Long-tailed ducks travel to Scotland in search of food

It’s all about the chemistry

Light up your walk • A common fungus that will burn steadily can be found in a forest near you

A fish’s swim bladder

GILLIAN BURKE • “Life thrives on alliances and partnerships”

INTO THE SPOTLIGHT

10 species named after Attenborough

Future looks rosy

Caleb Ofori-Boateng • Tusk Conservation Award 2021 nalist Caleb Ofori-Boateng is protecting amphibians in Ghana

‘Non’ to bird hunt • Controversial plans to kill thousands of wild birds in France by hunters are stopped by the high court

Star octopus

Black and white

Lost & Found VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY • Oleander hawkmoth

WINTER JEWELS

Best bird is a bat

Bee safe, save hives • Humans aren’t alone in socially distancing during a devastating pandemic

A confusion of wildebeest

Winter wonder • Search for the mythical form of pixie-cup lichen on moss

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES BANDED MONGOOSE • Lucy Cooke meets the female warmongers of Africa’s savannahs

Sightings make a difference • Look out for the largest European wading bird

European brown bear

MARK CARWARDINE OPINION • “There is absolutely no evidence that killing badgers reduces the incidence of TB in cattle”

Familiar birds added to revised UK Red List • House martin, swi, green nch and Bewick’s swan are given status of “highest conservation concern”

The world must wake up

WE ARE FAMILY OVERWINTERING SWANS • Maintaining tight bonds serves migratory swans well at popular winter feeding grounds

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JUST AN ILLUSION CHAFFINCH • The colourful songbird has a clever trick for making its plumage seem brighter come spring

Colour-changing feathered friends

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DIVE IN! • Steve Backshall met up with BBC Wildlife editor Paul McGuinness to explain why we need to stop thinking of sharks as creatures to fear

Steve on the mystery of the megalodon

Closer to home • Did you know that more than 40 species of shark are found o the British coast?

The cage-diving dilemma

Steve’s favourites sharks

DOWN SOUTH • As the Falkland Islands prepares to mark 40 years since its liberation, experience the wonderful wildlife highlights of this Atlantic archipelago

HIDE & SEEK • Concealed among India’s high peaks is a rare and secretive creature: the Himalayan brown bear. Puskar Basu embarks on a quest to track down...