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 MONTH • Fall in love with nature all over again, with our guide to seven unmissable wildlife events.

MIKE DILGER’S WILDLIFE WATCHING • In his series of great places to watch wildlife in the UK, the star of BBC One’s The One Show this month takes a look at rides – wide, sunlit woodland tracks with rich micro-habitats where plants and animals flourish.

SPECIES TO LOOK OUT FOR

CHOICE LOCATIONS

Hidden BRITAIN

FRAGILE FRIGID FLORA • Frozen blooms that aren’t what they seem…

Forging the way: new plan to save rhinos • Will fake rhino horns reduce demand for the real thing or just make matters worse?

Conservationists plan complete eradication of mink from East Anglia • Could this be the first step in the elimination of this non-native species from the UK?

Gharial • This month, Ashish Bashyal shines the spotlight on a unique, slender-snouted crocodilian.

Spatial learning shown in crabs

Immunity hope for UK ash trees

Strumigenys ananeotes

IN NUMBERS

MARK CARWARDINE • The conservationist discusses population forecasts and invites your thoughts on the subject.

Abdullahi Ali founder and director, Hirola Conservation Programme • Trying to protect one of the world’s rarest large mammals is no easy task. Dr Abdullahi Ali is doing it in an area that is on the verge of being a war zone.

Healthy relationships

Beluga plays fetch in the Arctic • An online video seen worldwide shows one of these whales retrieving a rugby ball. Too good to be true?

Beavers to be released on National Trust land

Nature in brief

TROUBLED WATERS • In October, The Ocean Cleanup’s system collected plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time. But is this the best way of dealing with the plastic problem?

Ocean gyres

The Ocean Cleanup System 001/B

Interceptor: how it works

JOLLY GREEN GIANT • We pay tribute to the larger-than-life botanist, broadcaster and long-time BBC Wildlife contributor, David Bellamy, who sadly died in December, aged 86.

Bellamy and BBC Wildlife

Your tributes • A selection of messages from our Facebook page.

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE • In remote parts of Iran, Asiatic cheetahs cling precariously to survival. Two years ago, the scientists working to protect them were accused of spying and imprisoned, leaving the cats in even greater danger of extinction.

Conservationists in danger • Protecting wildlife can mean laying your life on the line.

GET UNDER THEIR SKIN • Discover the remarkable, varied properties of the largest of organs.

“Neither fish nor beast...” • Scotland’s Eurasian otter population has a high proportion of coastal-dwelling individuals, which spend their time flitting between land, sea and freshwater pools.

From Shetland to space

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SHOULD WE STOP PLANTING TREES? • In the race to stem the loss of biodiversity and offset carbon emissions through reforestation, we may be guilty of not being able to see the wood for the trees.

Water warriors • Salmon are the lifeblood of...