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.

Beyond the ice

Life in the extremes isn’t for the clumsy

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Wilde TIMES • What’s happening right now

Up and leave • Bats are known to move to hibernation sites in autumn

Dream weavers • Biologists discover jumping spiders experience rapid eye movement sleep by “peering into their heads”

Resurrection time for extinct Tasmanian tiger • Restoring the extinct thylacine could aid rewilding, but wildlife experts have their doubts

Life in the sloe lane • It’s harvest time for the fruit of the blackhorn tree

Here comes the rain again • There’s no better time to visit Britain’s lush temperate rainforests

A ram’s horn squid’s shell

GILLIAN BURKE • “Yes, you can plant a tree, but will it survive and thrive?”

RETURN OF THE NATIVE

Karim Vahed • Entomologist and England manager at invertebrate conservation charity Buglife

Bees of the seas • New research has uncovered ‘pollinators’ – marine crustaceans – fertilising seaweed in our oceans

Lost & Found

A win-win for farming and wildlife • Study reveals farming for nature doesn’t need to jeopardise food security

An unkindness of ravens

An apple a day • Apple season means a nutritional bonanza for all manner of species

Lucy Cooke on the creative conjugal affairs of a hedgerow songbird

Wandering warblers • The Siberian songbirds getting lost en route south

Water vole

SIMPLY CHRISTMAS

MARK CARWARDINE • “Hare coursing is a serious problem in many rural areas”

As the moth flies • The impressive navigation strategies of migrating death’s-head hawkmoths rival those of birds

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JUMP AROUND SPAWNING SALMON • Get settled by the water’s edge and marvel at fish bravely leaping homewards to reproduce

BABY LOVE MICRODON HOVERFLY • Clever adaptations allow the larvae of this parasitic hoverfly to happily munch on ant grubs undetected

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Return to the FROZEN PLANET • Over a decade since Frozen Planet first aired on the BBC, the series is back, offering extraordinary new footage of life in the most extreme environments on Earth

ART FOR CHANGE • Enjoy works from the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year competition, in association with BBC Wildlife

ROOM FOR A LITTLE ONE? • The once ubiquitous house sparrow has suffered a drastic decline. It’s time to step in and lend our small and charming neighbours a helping hand.

2022 Your Home Christmas made esay

RISE & SHINE • Strange but beautiful fungi and slime moulds are popping up beneath our feet. It’s time to slow down and marvel at a magical techicolour show.

“Nature is not a luxury; it is a necessity and a basic human right” • Learning disabilities should not be a barrier to the wild

PARTY IN THE PARK • Feeding the coatis has led to a troublesome population explosion in one Brazilian city

Q&A

Speciation: sources of biodiversity

GO WILD! • Your guide to getting closer to nature this month

Falling leaves

Photo CLUB

SNAP-CHAT WITH BBC WILDLIFE PICTURE EDITOR TOM GILKS • Craig Jones talks wildlife-mimicking dogs and escaping incoming tides

Marvellous martens put on...