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                 FEATURES                                                                                            WILD NEWS


            18    AutumnwatchUSA           COVERSTORY         70 Turningturtle                                       Keep up to date with the big nature
                  ‘Watch’ producer Chris Howard previews           It takes all sorts of volunteers – with           stories and latest wildlife discoveries
                  the wild delights of New England in the fall     varied motivations – to monitor and         51    News
                                                                   protect loggerheads on a Florida beach            Persecution of birds of prey in Scotland
            28 Everydayethics COVER STORY
                  Is it ever OK to squash a fly, or is ‘live  78 Astinginthetale                                     has fallen following new legislation
                  and let live’ the absolute imperative?           Explore the social world of the hornet      54 Conservationreport
                                                                   with a photographer who gets a buzz
            32 Newcastle’surbankittiwakes                          out of these striped insect predators             The elusive Central Asian sand cat
                  COVERSTORY Why seabirds nesting on                                                           57 MeettheScientist
                  Tyneside are ruffling feathers              84   Photo story:  Eye on the tiger                    Lake ecologist Stephen Thackeray on
                                                                   Extraordinarily candid images from a              the effects of ‘underwater heatwaves’
            42 ThebirdthatsavedforestsRY                           new exhibition reveal the lives of the big
                  How the discovery of Ecuador’s jocotoco          cat and efforts in their conservation       58 TruthorFiction?
                  antpitta led to the creation of a reserve                                                          Do the stripes of a zebra actually help it
                  and influential conservation foundation                                                            stay cool under the searing African sun?

            60 News: Howheathitswildlife                       Share                                           69 MarkCarwardine
                  COVER STORY  The UK’s long, dry summer     and win                                                 Is fine art really so much more valuable
                  has been welcomed by some – but it         Complete our                                            than conservation?
                  has had a serious impact on nature         reader survey
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