From the BBC Wildlife Archive
Gems from the December 1979 issue
Alliance Trust
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Mike Dilger’s wildlife spectacles: Little by little
Noisy flocks of emerald-green birds are becoming an increasingly common sight in the UK
COUNTRY FILE
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Nick Baker’s Hidden Britain: Rags to riches
In muddy estuaries live secretive worms with special ways of pulling edible morsels into their lairs
Lift off!
In the forests of Hokkaido, Japan, lives a small, cute, furry mammal with a superpower: it’s the Ezo flying squirrel
The king of conservation
King Charles III is one of the great environmentalists of our time
Paradise found
Chimanimani National Park, spanning the mountainous border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is a wildlife hotspot waiting to be explored
Turning the tide
Sustainable tourism holds the key to reversing the ecological clock on Mauritius, an Indian Ocean paradise whose biodiversity is clinging on by the finest of threads
The power of poo
With a bit of probing, faeces can reveal fascinating, hidden information about an animal’s diet, territory and population size