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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The rare lizard that shows how conservation offers hope

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

Wild boar threaten Chile’s rare monkey puzzle forests • Invasive pigs binge on seeds of endangered ‘living fossils’

America’s birds in peril • Steep declines of widespread birds is causing concern

Sir David narrates new cinema film

NEW NAME FOR A RARE RHINO

Boffins breed ‘mammoth mouse’ • Progress made in quest to bring back Ice Age giant

A deadly race for krill • Huge whales depend on tiny crustaceans – but the fishing boats now want them, too

wild MAY • 7 nature encounters for the month ahead

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GILLIAN BURKE • “Nature was a vivid and abundant protagonist in Dad’s stories”

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES • The secret to evolutionary immortality, minus males

MARK CARWARDINE • “Why should wildlife lose to businesses underpinned by criminal activity?”

LIFE IS GOLDEN • On a tiny Pacific island, millions of jellies follow a strict schedule for their daily sun worship

POISON ARROW • It looks dashing, but don’t be fooled – its hairs are dangerously toxic

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YOSEMITE’S WILD HEART • California’s mountainous national park is one of the oldest and most iconic in the USA. Among its dramatic landscapes, some equally remarkable wildlife thrives

HE ENGINEERS • We knew sea otters saved kelp forests. But we didn’t know they could save estuaries, too

My friends, the owls • In the company of owls, Polly Atkin finds solace from debilitating illness

LOVE FOR A LIZARD • A tiny Caribbean island has made a remarkable ecological recovery, helping to save a rare lizard in the process

SEA OF GIANTS • An unusual alliance is forming to save Sri Lanka’s remarkable whales

A brief history of ships strikes

Q&A

How living things launch projectiles

Leafy seadragons

Photo CLUB

SNAP-CHAT • Hair-raising adventures with big-cat lover Sebastian Kennerknecht

wild PUZZLES

The great zoo debate

Back in the water

Living fossils • Amazing survivors from the dawn of time