BBC Wildlife - UK (2020-08)

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Paul McGuinness

Editor

B

eauty, as we know, is in the eye

of the beholder. Our cover star

this month may have a wound

disfiguring his features, but I’m

sure most of us would agree that

Scarface is one beautiful beast, who wears

his history on his face for all to see. But,

Jonathan and Angela Scott explain, as this

lion king’s reign comes to an end, so is

the modern world changing the face of

the Maasai Mara. The story starts on p66.

It’s been something of a recurring

theme this issue, beauty. Our

feature on India’s greater

adjutant (p52), for example,

tells of a bird pushed almost

to the edge of extinction

simply because many people

think it’s an ugly brute.

And surely there are few

things as ugly as markets selling wild

animals for human consumption. Could

their role in spreading diseases such as

COVID-19, SARS, HIV and Ebola mean

that wildlife markets are to become a thing

of the past? We investigate on page 38.

Enjoy the issue – we like to think it’s a beauty!

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