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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, and from October 2020 the number of issues published per year has increased to eight. New issues are usually available in the third week of the month of publication (October, November, December, February, April, May, June and August).
Single back issues are available to buy for £6.50 (postage to UK addresses is included). Please note that some older back issues are no longer available.
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.
Saving the Pine Hoverfly – Long-term Ecological Studies – Species-recording vs Planning – Marsh Fritillaries on the Lizard – WWT London Wetland Centre: the First 20 Years
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Terrestrial Water Voles – Environmental Impact of Salmon Farming – Holkham NNR – European Strict Forest Reserves – Solitary Bees in Urban Gardens
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Conservation of the Ring Ouzel – Nitrogen: The Overlooked Pollutant – The Tansy Beetle: 20 Years on – Biodiversity in Conifer Plantations – Rewilding and Environmental Economics
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The Battle of Swanscombe – Myths of Pollination – Sutton and Catfield Fens – The Edible Dormouse – Historical Phenology – Badger Cull: Beginning of an End?
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Discovering Britain’s Wild Apples – Rewilding: Time to Get Off the Fence? – Rewilding and Intervention: Complementary Philosophies – Arthur’s Crow: Conservation of Choughs – Coulters Dean
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Cephalopods in British Seas – Prospects for Mink Eradication – Conservation on the Lizard Peninsula – Sound Identification of Small Mammals – Mapping Britain and Ireland's Larger Moths
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Autumn Swarming by Bats – Alluvial Floodplain Woodland – Conservation of the Fen Raft Spider – Muir of Dinnet NNR – Imperfect Detection in Entomological Recording
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European Eels – Alpine Blue-Sowthistle – Crisis Point for Conservation – Breck Heaths of the West Midlands – The Speckled Bush-Cricket – Reintroductions: Always a Good Thing?
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