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

Throwing shade • Jungles of bracken provide a refuge for roe deer

Canine conservation • A springer spaniel has been trained to sniff out endangered newts

Crossing continents • Is the recent reintroduction of cheetahs to India a conservation triumph or an ill-conceived distraction?

Shore leave • Bladderwrack, the seaweed with fascinating features

No glow areas

Saved by the harebell • This late-season arrival brings a burst of blue to hillsides and verges

ORIGIN OF PIECES • A whale’s blowhole

GILLIAN BURKE • “The king and queen of the forest demand that I stop and bow down”

SIBLING RIVALRY

10 biggest spiders

Escobar’s legacy

Roary Neat • Freshwater Habitats Trust volunteer on looking after rare wetland plants for a reintroduction project in Oxfordshire

Kangaroos haven’t always hopped • Hopping as a method of high-speed endurance wasn’t used by all large kangaroos

Gekko mizoramensis

Condor vaccines

Lost & Found • Black-veined white, southern England

PUFFED UP

Floral frogs

De-horning black rhinos is changing their behaviour • Given the scant evidence that removing the horns of rhinos reduces poaching, is it worth it?

Life in black and white

Underwater orchestra • Tune in to the lesser water boatman performing an extraordinary chorus

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke on the highly competitive ‘queens’ of a complex bird society

Rich pickings • Bilberries are smaller than blueberries but no less delicious

POO CORNER • Common pheasant

MARK CARWARDINE • “England’s Victorian-era wastewater system can no longer cope”

SPLISH SPLASH • Watch these superbly adapted raptors plunging for fish to feed their young

LOOK CLOSER

SAIL AWAY • The drifting siphonophore with a killer reputation that paralyses its prey

Much maligned

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MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME • On the edge of a remote mountain slope in northern India, a secretive cat becomes part of village life

Rivalry in the hills • Inhabitants of this harsh environment must ceaselessly compete with the cats, and each other, for food and safety

PLASTIC PERIL • Intimate photos of flesh-footed shearwaters reveal fascinating behaviour – and research into a growing threat

LIVING IT LARGE • Patagotitan is likely the biggest dinosaur to have walked the Earth. Here’s how it lived its supersized life.

THE POWER OF PONDS • Our farmland ponds have vanished, but new initiatives are bringing back these biodiversity powerhouses

How to restore a pond • A step-by-step guide

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HOPE SPRINGS • Manatee habitat was threatened in Florida but is being restored, one blade of grass at a time

Restoration of Kings...