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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.
Storms and Trees – The Brilliant Emerald – The Gearagh River Forest – Carrion in the Countryside – A 21st Century Woodland Calendar – Marks Hill Wood
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The Walrus and other Arctic Vagrants – Heavy-metal Grasslands – Ecology of Field Scabious – The Protected Landscapes Consultation – Valley Headwater Fens of the Norfolk–Suffolk Border
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Conservation of Ringed Plovers – British Elephants – Biology of Limpets – Rewilding: A Kaleidoscope of Approaches – Natural History of St Agnes
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Conservation and Ecology of the Narrow-headed Ant – Ecological Influence of Large Carnivores – Eddystone Reef – Rejuvenating Welsh Dunes – Pollination in the Broad-leaved Helleborine
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COP 26 – Humpback Whales – Climate Change and Insect Declines – Fenn’s, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses NNR – Flower-visiting Saproxylic Insects – British Stropharia Fungi
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