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From me to you: a
male Ural owl passes
food to his mate while
she incubates their eggs

Ow s: Sven Zacek; crawf sh: Char es Hood/Oceans Image/Photoshot; sw fts: N ck Upton
(compos te); elephants: Elephant Valley; shark: Shane Gross; illustration by Bex Glover

Wild Features Agenda

6 Blooming Britain 20 Raptor photo trip 38 Spiny lobsters 47 Raven cull sanctioned
Verges host hundreds Cover story Cover story BBC Springwatch Scottish Natural Heritage
of wildflower species take amazing images presenter Gillian Burke has is allowing the killing of
an exciting encounter ravens to protect waders
8 June highlights 22 Black water voles
Badger cubs, swallowtail Cover story How ‘Ratty’ has 60 Swifts 48 Last-ditch for rhinos
butterflies, tree bumblebees colonised a Scottish city Cover story Ordinary heroes A desperate situation
and yellowhammers saving extraordinary birds calls for special measures
30 Asian elephants
11 Hidden Britain Cover story Attitudes in 66 Lemon sharks 49 Beyond the headlines
One of nature’s miracles Thailand are changing Cover story Meet the sociable How much are palm oil
is happening right now sharks that make friends plantations to blame for
36 Mouse-eared bats orangutan declines?
12 Wild events Pouring out of a cave in 74 Be aut i f ul U r al o w l s
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74 Beautiful Ural owls
Learn to love flies waves in southern Greece Cover story A photographer 50 Marbled cats
14 Pond dipping has spent years capturing Why we need to know
their breeding behaviour more about these felines
Cover story Get closer to
freshwater wildlife 53 Mark Carwardine
Plastic in the oceans and
16 Science research
how to tackle the problem
Lemurs recognise
intelligence and 54 Lamlash Bay
frogs bounce back Cover story
97 When to visit the Everglades in a No Take Zone
to see alligators close-up
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