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

Life coaching • Cubs spend many months with their mothers, learning the ways of the otter

Wilding: the movie • The story of Knepp comes to the big screen

Vital habitats put in peril by drug trade • Cocaine traffcking poses a substantial threat to several bird species and their forest home

Elephant in the room • The moth named after its trunk-like caterpillar

GREEN GODDESS

Big cat DNA found on sheep carcass • The discovery in the Lake District could prove that black panthers are roaming the British countryside

Grizzly-polar hybrids rare, study finds • Analysis reveals there are just eight hybrid bears, but this number could rise with global warming

Thismia malayana

Invasive spiders spread • Joro spiders, native to East Asia, are predicted to inhabit most of eastern USA in the coming years

ROCK STAR

Elephants call each other by name • New research finds that wild elephants respond to individual names in the same way as humans

GILLIAN BURKE • “The moment struck me as connection with nature at its purest”

Now you see them… • The season of the swift is a short one, so enjoy it while you can

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • A sci-fi tale of the queens that ditched males

MARK CARWARDINE • “What I find indefensible is that we are still talking about quotas for whalers”

LIGHT MY FIRE • When the rains fall, the arid lands of South Africa are set ablaze with breathtaking botanical colour

TOP FIVE PLACES • Where to see the desert in flower

LOOK CLOSER

CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU • Powerful peepers help this insect stand out from the crowd

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FAST ANSWERS

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SEEKING A NEW WILD • Rewilding projects are popping up across Europe, and one family took to the road to see them all

Grand tour • James and his family have completed three legs so far

TIDES OF CHANGE • The towering kelp forests off California support a vast array of life, but this delicate ecosystem is facing challenging times

ON THE ROCKS • As windfarm development threatens nesting kittiwake populations, mitigation measures are being rolled out

MONKEY AROUND • Rhesus macaques arrived in Florida more than 80 years ago – and their presence still divides opinion

ID GUIDE

ALL YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT Poison dart frogs

Photo CLUB

SNAP-CHAT • Axel Gomille on sprinting elephants and collecting movie characters

GO WILD!

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