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Matthew Oates, National Trust
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Michael McCarthy, The Independent
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Nick Baker, Presenter and Naturalist
235 The wandering Walrus and other Arctic vagrants
Jonathan Mullard
Appendix
244 Natural reflections
Brett Westwood
245 Heavy-metal habitats: calaminarian grassland in Gwydyr Forest Mines SAC
Caroline Bateson
253 Habitat management news
Compiled by Conservation Management Advice, RSPB
255 Field Scabious or Gipsy Rose – an ‘insect plant’ par excellence
Richard Jefferson
264 Wild story
Amy-Jane Beer
265 Comment: The Landscapes Review – an opportunity for change?
David Hampson
270 Scribbling in the margins
Richard Mabey
271 The valley headwater fens of the Norfolk–Suffolk border
Rowena Langston
281 Letter from Caledonia
Hugh Raven
282 Wildlife reports
Compiled by Guy Freeman
304 How to be wild
Simon Barnes
305 Conservation news
Compiled by Sue Everett
310 Twitcher in the swamp
311 Book reviews & Letter
"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