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.

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wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

Royal blue • Blooming in summer, cornflowers are linked to ideas of British national identity

The dark side of life • Social media amplifies negative messages about the environment

Ivory ban extended • Government acts to protect hippos and four other species

Getting stuck in • Dor beetles seek out fresh poo to feed to their larvae

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FACT.

Lying low in the Highlands • Dwarf birch grows close to the ground and exists in scattered pockets

ORIGIN OF PIECES AN ANATOMICAL MISCELLANY • A spider’s palps

GILLIAN BURKE • “There was more to this than a score card of winners and losers”

MOVING ON UP

10 dinosaur documentaries • From the solemn to the thrilling, here are some of our favourite dinosaur docs

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Yuliana Bedolla • Marine biologist and 2023 Whitley Award winner on protecting rare seabird nest sites

Open and shut case? • Mudskippers have evolved the ability to blink like we do – and probably for the same reasons

Hipposideros kingstonae

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Lost & Found VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY • Grey-headed lapwing, Northumberland

BEACH BABY

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Gannets found to be avian flu survivors • Bass Rock northern gannet study finds irises of birds that beat avian flu turn from blue to black

The helpful “hooverfly”

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Peck out • Now is the ideal time to identify a juvenile great spotted woodpecker

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES RING-TAILED LEMUR • Lucy Cooke on a prosimian society ruled by violent females

Green army • Gardeners are growing twinflowers to help the critically scarce plant

POO CORNER ID GUIDE • Brown hare

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MARK CARWARDINE • “The most urgent conservation battles are being fought in boardrooms”

PURE SHORES MACHAIR IN BLOOM • Head to the sandy coastlines of Scotland and Ireland to enjoy a dazzling diversity of wildflowers

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YOU WON’T SEE ME • The amost invisible invertebrate that swims undetected until it attacks with six bristling limbs

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VOLE ON A ROLL • Water voles are back in south Cornwall for the first time since the 1990s – just one of many UK releases

Release the voles! • Thousands of water voles have been set free across the UK in recent years – here are just some of the projects

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ON THE EDGE • The New Big 5 spotlights the planet’s endangered species through the lenses of some of the world’s top wildlife photographers. Here, we showcase a selection of the book’s highlights.

TAKE STOCK • Not all trade in wildlife is harmful – in fact the opposite can be true

MISSION MANTA • Research into the lives of these mysterious creatures is offering a ray of hope in the Maldives

Flight fantastic • Summer is the time to see insects on the wing. But how do these diverse and myriad creatures take flight?

Lift off! • Insects...