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.

Get ready for the Big Butterfly Count

I used to wonder where all the shells came from

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wildTIMES • What’s happening right now

Keeping an eye out in the reefs • Community-run patrols are guarding marine life against illegal fishing

“Finding it is the first challenge”

Moving on up • Climate change is causing dragonflies to dramatically expand their ranges

JOHN A BURTON • 1944-2022

Buzzing bats bamboozle birds • In the first documented case of its kind in a mammal, a bat sounds like an insect to scare off bat-eating birds

Catch me if you can • From common visitor to rare sighting, the spotted flycatcher is more precious than ever

Royal honour

Welcome garden guests • The characterful two-spot is just one of our 46 ladybird species

A rose’s thorns

GILLIAN BURKE • “Could we travel the world, without costing the earth?”

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR

10 celebrity species names • Many scientists have taken inspiration from popular culture when naming new species

Boxing clever

Alexandra Narváez • Goldman Environmental Prize 2022 winner for environmental activism against illegal gold mining

Warm reception • Amateur naturalists tend to be welcoming of species arriving on our shores in a changing world

Chiriquí fire salamander

Traffic calming

Lost & Found VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY • Common winter damselfly

SUNNY SIDE UP

Monkey hybrid

Vaquita not vanquished • New research provides a thread of hope for the future of the world’s smallest – and rarest – cetacean

A crash of rhinoceroses

MARK CARWARDINE • “It’s the beginning of a slippery slope – a disaster waiting to happen”

On the rocks • It’s prime time for rockpooling, and the green shore crab is the star of the show

Lucy Cooke on a mammal with an extraordinary evolutionary edge

Breeding like rabbits • High predation means that multiple litters are a must

Noble chafer

Global bird populations face huge declines • Human behaviour is to blame for the downward spiral of bird species – but there is hope

Reptiles among the relics

SPEED OF SOUND GANNETS • Be wowed by torpedo-like gannets plunging into the sea for fish during the summer breeding season

TOP FIVE PLACES

LOOK CLOSER

REACH FOR THE STARS STAR-HEADED LIVERWORT • Fertilising the tall starry heads of this mossy plant is a tricky business, but a drop of water goes a long way

Drift away

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ORCAS ON THE EDGE • Orcas are surviving off the coast of British Columbia, but only just. We find out what is putting these apex predators in peril.

Other wild highlights of Broughton

RISE ABOVE • Roaming the crags and sheer slopes of Western Europe’s highest mountain range, the Alpine ibex is now thriving again – having come perilously close to extinction

Is the answer really blowin’ in the wind? • Renewable energy is a necessity as we aim for net-zero carbon emissions, but it comes at a cost to wildlife

WIND FARMS WORLDWIDE • Construction of both on-and offshore wind farms can pose severe threats to wildlife, the most...