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Back Issues
Back issues
British Wildlife has been published in an uninterrupted run of six issues per year since October 1989. New issues are usually available in the third week of the month of publication (October, December, February, April, June and August).
Single back issues are available to buy for £6.50, or £4.50 each for three or more back issues (postage to UK addresses is included). Please note that some older back issues are no longer available. New subscribers will receive two free issues of their choice.
Classroom sets of British Wildlife (minimum of six copies of the same issue) are available at a discount for educational purposes or for nature study groups; please call or email for more details.
A sample copy of the magazine can be viewed online here.
Folk Names of Birds – The Purseweb Spider – RSPB Geltsdale – Local Extinction: A County Case Study – Conservation and 'Alien' Plants
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Action on Climate Change – Norfolk Hawker and Water Soldier – Habitat Fragmentation and the New Forest – Wildcats in England – Long-distance Dispersal by Orchids – Beam Brook Field Station
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Abernethy Forest – Britain’s Lesser-known Ladybirds – Natural Woodland Generation – The Devil’s Dyke – Lawn-mowing and Phenology
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Defining 'Natural Woodland' – The Basking Shark – Bradfield Woods NNR – The Magic of Moonwort – Tree-Felling in Norbury Park – Lead in the Environment
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The 'Life and Times' of Moschatel – National Parks of Natural Parks? – The Stone Marten in the British Isles – Colliery-Spoil Biodiversity – Biodiversity Accounting
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Natural History of Seabeds – Beneath the Trees – Wildlife in London Churchyards – Scarce Moths of Borders – Islay Barnacle Goose Management Strategy
View issue content Buy issue at NHBS"British Wildlife is the pulsating heart of the UK nature conservation movement."
Matthew Oates, National Trust
"The most important and informative publication on wildlife of our times"
Michael McCarthy, The Independent
"Packed with readable, thoughtful, up to date articles; written by ecologists and naturalists for ecologists and naturalists"
Nick Baker, Presenter and Naturalist