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1 Editorial
David Stroud
3 The Humpback Whale’s tale – a cetacean in hot water
Jon Dunn
12 Natural reflections
Brett Westwood
13 Death by one hundred droughts: is climate change already driving biodiversity declines in Britain?
Roger Morris and Stuart Ball
21 Habitat management news
Compiled by Conservation Management Advice, RSPB
23 Reserve Focus: Fenn’s, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses NNR
James Robertson
29 Wild story
Amy-Jane Beer
30 The flower-visiting insects associated with old trees and dead wood
Steven Falk and Emma Gilmartin
39 The Strawberry Tree
Pádraic Fogarty
40 Roundheads and verdigris agarics – identification of British Stropharia species
Geoffrey Kibby
45 Scribbling in the margins
Richard Mabey
46 Wildlife reports
Compiled by Guy Freeman
69 How to be wild
Simon Barnes
70 Conservation news
Compiled by Sue Everett
75 Twitcher in the swamp
76 Book reviews & 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