British Wildlife 37.4 February 2026
February 2026
This issue includes
English Nature Laws in Crisis – The Common Octopus – Birds in Place-names – Action Needed for Protected Sites – Rewilding and Birds at Mar Lodge
In this issue:
- 235 A confluence of crises in English nature laws
- 240 Natural Reflections
- 241 The fluctuating fortunes of the Common Octopus in Britain
- 249 Habitat Management News
- 251 Birds in English place-names: signposts to the old ecologies of place
- 259 Wild Story
- 260 England’s protected sites: an opportunity to drive nature’s natural recovery is being missed
- 267 The Strawberry Tree
- 268 Does rewilding help birds in the uplands? Thirty years of monitoring at Mar Lodge Estate NNR
- 278 Naturally Opiniated
- 279 Wildlife reports
- 302 Conservation news
- 308 Changing perspectives
- 310 Book review: Coastal Seas
