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

Tero Mustonen

Goldman Environmental Prize 2023 winner on rewilding Finland’s degraded habitats

GILLIAN BURKE

\"The nature reserve prepares to welcome the farm into the fold\"

Captive-bred wildcats to be released in Scotland

Saving Wildcats conservation project reaches an important milestone this summer

Oceanic plastic rubbish hosts marine life

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the unlikely home for a range of normally coastal-dwelling species

LIVING WITH PREDATORS

In an ever-crowded world, conserving predators means valuing the people that live and can die - alongside them

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

The natural world as we know it wouldn't exist without pollination. We delve into the cool science of plant sex

BACK TO NATURE

In Argentina's Iberá Wetlands, a showcase initiative is returning several keystone species and restoring this wondrous ecosystem

Meet the presenters

Paul McGuinness in conversation with Chris and Michaela