PLASTIC PERIL

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

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

On the edge of a remote mountain slope in northern India, a secretive cat becomes part of village life

SAIL AWAY

The drifting siphonophore with a killer reputation that paralyses its prey

SPLISH SPLASH

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

Underwater orchestra

Tune in to the lesser water boatman performing an extraordinary chorus

De-horning black rhinos is changing their behaviour

Given the scant evidence that removing the horns of rhinos reduces poaching, is it worth it?

Kangaroos haven't always hopped

Hopping as a method of high-speed endurance wasn't used by all large kangaroos

Roary Neat

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

Saved by the harebell

This late-season arrival brings a burst of blue to hillsides and verges

Crossing continents

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

Throwing shade

Jungles of bracken provide a refuge for roe deer

Can No Mow May cause more harm than good?

FORGIVE ME, BUT I'M REALLY SURPRISED that your wildlife magazine continues to encourage people to partake in Plantlife's No Mow May campaign each year due to the harm it can cause.

Toxins and venoms: nature's poisons

WITH EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST JV CHAMARY

Flight fantastic

Summer is the time to see insects on the wing. But how do these diverse and myriad creatures take flight?

MISSION MANTA

Research into the lives of these mysterious creatures is offering a ray of hope in the Maldives

TAKE STOCK

Not all trade in wildlife is harmful - in fact the opposite can be true

VOLE ON A ROLL

Water voles are back in south Cornwall for the first time since the 1990s – just one of many UK releases

YOU WON'T SEE ME - GIANT WATER FLEA

The amost invisible invertebrate that swims undetected until it attacks with six bristling limbs

PURE SHORES - MACHAIR IN BLOOM

Head to the sandy coastlines of Scotland and Ireland to enjoy a dazzling diversity of wildflowers

MARK CARWARDINE

\"The most urgent conservation battles are being fought in boardrooms\"

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES - RING-TAILED LEMUR

Lucy Cooke on a prosimian society ruled by violent females

Gannets found to be avian flu survivors

Bass Rock northern gannet study finds irises of birds that beat avian flu turn from blue to black

Lost & Found

Grey-headed lapwing, Northumberland

Open and shut case?

Mudskippers have evolved the ability to blink like we do – and probably for the same reasons

MEET THE SCIENTIST - Yuliana Bedolla

Marine biologist and 2023 Whitley Award winner on protecting rare seabird nest sites

GILLIAN BURKE

“There was more to this than a score card of winners and losers”

"I created a dive team to collect marine data"

Neeve O'Flynn-Mundin is surveying sharks and coastal habitats around the Isle of Wight

FEMALE OF THE SPECIES ECLECTUS PARROT

Lucy Cooke on the flamboyance of the female eclectus parrot

Surprise attack from the rear

Sea cucumbers channel their inner spider to entangle predators

Limbless wonder

A secretive snake that performs cartwheels to escape from danger