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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BBC Wildlife Magazine

THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT • Don’t miss what the world’s best wildlife magazine has in store this spring

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Wild TIMES • What’s happening right now

The stars beneath the ground • It looks like the depths of space, but it’s actually the inside of a cave

“It was so dark in the caves”

Giraffe numbers on the up • A positive population trend has been reported by a giraffe conservation charity, providing hope for the iconic species

Feeding a big family • Blue tits have large clutches so there is plenty of action to observe at occupied nestboxes

Looking forward to wilder national parks • Government provides response to Julian Glover’s Landscapes Review

Deceptive dead-nettle • This widespread plant discourages animals from eating it by resembling a familiar stinging species

New reef found

Springing into action • These recognisable pollinators can be seen from March until June

A duck’s speculum

GILLIAN BURKE • “The revelations about the natural world get my inner nerd excited”

TAKING A PEEK

10 cannibalistic animals • It may seem gruesome, but many animals have been recorded feeding on their own

Blooming sooner

Kathelijne Koops • A primatologist revealing similarities between chimpanzee and human culture

Orcas kill blue whale • A pod has been observed hunting and eating the planet’s largest animal off the coast of Australia

Phlogis kibalensis

Clear warning

Lost & Found VAGRANT SPECIES DIARY • Loggerhead turtle, Iona

CAPER CÈILIDH

New hope for Nelly

Insider trading • Squirrels rely on their gut microbes to get them through hibernation

A gaggle of geese

Marine meal • Spring is the time to responsibly harvest this seaweed

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • Lucy Cooke reveals the anti-ageing secrets of a despotic queen

Master builders • House martins arrive in the UK in spring to construct their nests

Polecat

MARK CARWARDINE • “I have a solution: ban all industrial fishing on the high seas”

Crisis for wolves • Norwegian court verdict allows major cull as top predators face increasingly hostile environment

Scandal in the sand dunes

RHAPSODY IN BLUE • Britain’s woodlands welcome spring by rolling out an astounding – and almost unique – blue carpet

TOP FIVE PLACES

LOOK CLOSER

SHAKIN’ ALL OVER • Good looks don't impress a female 15-spined stickleback – it’s all about the way he moves

Meet the three-spined stickleback

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BEELINE • Beautiful and intimate images reveal extraordinary insights into the social structure, communication, defensive strategies and sex lives of wild honeybees

Ancient bison are coming back – starting in Kent… • They’ve been absent in the UK wild for thousands of years, but now a special project is welcoming these “woolly bulldozers” home

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

GARDENERS OF THE FOREST • How a living fossil is making modern Costa Rica greener

Know your tapirs • Four species of tapir exist today, found in South and Central...