BBC Wildlife - UK (2020-08)

FEATURES

32 Howtocombatinvasive

balsam

Scientistsareusingfungitohelpkeep

HimalayanbalsamatbayintheUK,

buthowdoesit work?

38 WildlifemarketsCOVERSTORY

COVID-19hasseentheattentionofthe

worldturntowardswildlifemarkets.

Wetakea lookatwhatmakesthem

breedinggroundsfordisease

44 Drones

Arethesemust-havegadgetsa

sophisticatedsolutionforsurveying

wildlife or a nuisance to nature?

52 Photostory: India’s storks

Discover the peculiar-looking

greateradjutant and find out how it

came to be down in the dumps

62 Urbanparks

Isit timefora rethinkwhenit comes to

greenspacesinourtownsandcities?

66 ScarfaceCOVERSTORY

Meetthelionwhobecamea legend of

theMaasaiMara,alongwithhis motley

crewofcompanions

76 CunningcuckoosCOVERSTORY

Crowsenjoya surprisingside-effect

ofhavingtheirnestsintruded by great

spottedcuckoos

OURWILD

WORLD

87 Athome

NaturalhistoryTV,books

andmore

90 Puzzles

92 Yourphotos

94 Feedback

Yourlettersand

TalesfromtheBush

REGULARS

6 Infocus

Fallowdeer,leaf-tailed

gecko,Burchell’szebra

80 Q&A COVER STORY

Do any animals practise

social distancing?

98 Wildlife champion

Why Lizzie Daly adores

the leopard seal

WILD MONTH

12 Seven species to spot

What to look for in August

17 Nick Baker’s hidden Britain

Water veneer

18 Mike Dilger’s wildlife

watching

Why we should treasure our

remarkable chalk streams

22 News

Greater protection for UK seas

recommended by new report

26 Truth or ction?

Do hedgehog highways really help?

27 Mark Carwardine

The conservationist discusses

whaling in Iceland

28 Meet the scientist

Ornithologist Henry Pollock tells

us about his fieldwork in Panama

August 2020 BBC Wildlife 5

COVER STORY

COVER STORY

COVER STORY

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The people

behind our stories

August 2020

JONATHAN & ANGELA SCOTT

The award-winning wildlife

photographers reveal the story of

Scarface – one of the most famous

lions in the Maasai Mara: “Over the

course of his dramatic reign, he has

embodied what it is to be a male lion

in these grasslands.” See p

GILLIAN BURKE

People have become used to the

idea of social distancing, but is

this behaviour found in the animal

kingdom? “Even ants are known to

self-isolate,” says the Springwatch

presenter. See p

JAMES FAIR

With the COVID-19 pandemic still

ongoing, journalist James looks at

what the future may hold for wildlife

markets and explains why they’ve

been described as “a nuclear bomb

waiting to happen”. See p

LIZZIE DALY

The biologist and broadcaster tells

us about her first encounter with a

leopard seal: “As we drifted around

an iceberg, a long, slender body

with a reptilian head and oar-like

flippers appeared.” See p

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