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.

ON THE BBC THIS MONTH

Remembering comedian and naturalist Bill Oddie

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Wild Lives

wild TIMES • The latest news, photography and seasonal wildlife highlights

Hidden hydraulics of forest giants • Enormous tropical trees have evolved ‘workarounds’ to protect from drought

Aussie birds turn trash to treasure • Male bowerbirds are taking bling from bins to spruce up their love nests

An African adventure • Hamza Yassin searches for Kenya’s birds of prey

THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Mink on their way out • Eradication project ready to be scaled up

EVERYTHING BUT THE BIRD • Bill Oddie passed away in July, aged 85. Producer Stephen Moss recalls his fondest moments working with the inimitable wildlife presenter

wild SEPTEMBER • 7 nature encounters for the month ahead

MARK CARWARDINE • The Komodo dragon’s reputation as a terrifying, ruthless predator does nothing to help its cause

WILD IN THE CITY • Goshawks, usually elusive forest birds, are enjoying the easy pickings of leafy Berlin

KATE BRADBURY • “Who doesn’t want a year bookended by mating balls?”

THE TIDE IS HIGH • Head to the mudflats to see these overwintering sandpipers put on dazzling displays

INSANE IN THE BRAIN • The parasitic fly that gets into its victim’s head

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MEET THE MEGABATS • Big and boisterous, Australia’s flying foxes play a vital role in preserving the country’s distinctive plant life

SNOW PATROL • As they venture further south on their annual migration, snowy owls seek out landscapes that resemble their Arctic tundra home – bringing them to some unlikely places

“One of my favourite species is the human being” • People are part of nature’s story, capable of great harm, but also of hope, compassion and acts of care

THE PROTECTORS • In Zambia, pangolins face poachers, traffickers and myths. But one determined team is fighting to keep these remarkable mammals alive

TOP OF THE HOPS • As Peru’s tropical glaciers retreat, frogs and toads are colonising newly exposed high-altitude landscapes in a real-time example of evolution and adaptation

Q&A • Email your questions to wildlifemagazine@ourmedia.co.uk

Why are there so many jellyfish around?

Do any prey taunt their predators?

What’s the point of forked tongues?

Why does symmetry exist in nature?

Are all fish cold-blooded?

How do mosquitoes survive Zika?

Jaguarundi

Photo CLUB

SNAP-CHAT • Michel d’Oultremont talks bear scares, deer ruts and frostbite

The very best of British countryside, all year round

wild PUZZLES

Seeing red

Island adventure

“I heard a sound that made me freeze” • Bison in India