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.

DISCOVER WILD LIFE • Springwatch is back!

We need more natural history on the menu, not less

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Wild Times • What’s happening right now

Belly of the beast • A close call with a pair of crocodiles led to a highly commended shot

Friends in low places • Take time to notice colourful pyramidal orchids rising from chalk grasslands this month

Oceanic plastic rubbish hosts marine life • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the unlikely home for a range of normally coastal-dwelling species

Captive-bred wildcats to be released in Scotland • Saving Wildcats conservation project reaches an important milestone this summer

A little night music • Listen out for the strange calls of the male nightjar

Search every mountain • Battling dry conditions, resilient roseroot flowers on the steepest slopes

ORIGIN OF PIECES • AN ANATOMICAL MISCELLANY

GILLIAN BURKE • “The nature reserve prepares to welcome the farm into the fold”

TIP TO TAIL

Tero Mustonen • Goldman Environmental Prize 2023 winner on rewilding Finland’s degraded habitats

Limbless wonder • A secretive snake that performs cartwheels to escape from danger

Lost & Found • VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY

GYM BOD

Surprise attack from the rear • Sea cucumbers channel their inner spider to entangle predators

COLLECTIVE NOUNS • WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Perfect timing • Sparrowhawks breed late, when young songbirds are most abundant

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • ECLECTUS PARROT

Large blue is back • The return of this star butterfly species is a welcome success story

POO CORNER • ID GUIDE

MARK CARWARDINE • OPINION

Two new poisonous birds discovered • Toxins in feathers from Papua New Guinea jungle birds reveal link to poison dart frogs

FREE FALLIN’ HUNTING PEREGRINES • Spot the ultimate urban predator ‘stooping’ to catch prey this summer

DISCO INFERNO GREEN-BANDED BROODSAC • The parasitic flatworm that turns a snail’s eyestalks into colourful, pulsating glowsticks

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NEW FRONTIERS • A groundbreaking tagging operation has just been completed in South Sudan. Marcus Westberg joins the team on the ground and in the air.

THE NATION’S FAVOURITE PLACE FOR WILDLIFE • THE RESULTS

OVERALL WINNER: The nation’s favourite place for wildlife • The Causeway Coast

SPRINGWATCH • It’s as firm a fixture in the BBC’s spring calendar as the FA Cup Final. But have you ever wondered what goes into making an episode of Springwatch?

Meet the presenters • Paul McGuinness in conversation with Chris and Michaela

BACK TO NATURE • In Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands, a showcase initiative is returning several keystone species and restoring this wondrous ecosystem

Beyond Iberá • Five more South American rewilding initiatives

LOVE IS IN THE AIR • The natural world as we know it wouldn’t exist without pollination. We delve into the cool science of plant sex.

LIVING WITH REDATORS • In an ever-crowded world, conserving predators means valuing the people that live – and can die – alongside them

Tiger tragedy • The far-reaching consequences of living with predators

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