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The night gardener: learn how tapirs are reforesting Costa Rica
THE COVER German nature photographer Ingo Arndt spent a few hours taking images of honeybees on flowering sage. “I loved the colour contrast and combination of the bees and the purple flowers,” he says. He used a Canon EOS 5DR R, EF 2.8/100mm L Macro IS USM, f16, 1/200sec, ISO200.
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NICK BAKER
“The 15-spined stickleback resembles a straightened seahorse, as one excited rock-pooler told me” P.36
GILLIAN BURKE
The Springwatch presenter visits a school and wonders if the study of biology is losing its way P.1 7
MARK CARWARDINE
Our outspoken columist believes it’s time there was a ban on all industrial highseas fishing P.29
LUCY COOKE
Naked mole rat colonies are ruled by a single despotic queen who is immune to ageing P.27
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MIKE DILGER
“Our islands probably hold more bluebells than the rest of the world put together” P.32