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1 Bird conservation and access: coexistence or compromise?
Rowena Langston, Allan Drewitt and Durwyn Liley
10 Through a naturalist's eyes
Robert Burton
11 The Birkdale Green Beach – a sand-dune biodiversity hotspot
Philip H Smith
17 Letter from the far west coast
Michael Viney
18 Habitat management news
Compiled by Conservation Management Advice, RSPB
20 Dinas Island Farm, Pembrokeshire – A Golden Future?
James Robertson
28 Letting our carbon go free. The sustainable management of carbon and blanket peat in the English uplands
Alistair Crowle
35 Identification: Longhorn beetles: Part 2
Andrew Duff
44 Wildlife reports
Compiled by Andrew Branson
65 Conservation news
Compiled by Sue Everett
71 Twitcher in the swamp
Peter Marren
72 Book reviews
75 Letters
"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