REGULARS
FEATURES
3 EDITORIAL 36 NATURE'S HEROES
Up, up and away North Macedonia's stork villages
Alex Dale Jessica Law
6 AROUND THE PARTNERSHIP
The latest news from every region
38 MARINE
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Seafood certification scheme needs
to step up action on bycatch
Rory Crawford
Liben Lark
42 PEOPLE & NATURE
Doñana National Park Meet the women inspiring change in
the Mediterranean
Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Awatef Abiadh
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60 BCI 46 THE INTERVIEW
Vulture conservation: a case for
urgent action The man with the tiger's stripes
Shaun Hurrell
62 SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT 48 PREVENTING EXTINCTIONS
The 169 islands we must save now Restoring species
Ian Burfield Cressida Stevens
52 FORESTS OF HOPE
A critical refuge
COVER STORY
Jonathan Garcia
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12 FLIGHT FOR SURVIVAL A delta in danger
The killing crisis James Casey
James Lowen
56 TACKLING INVASIVES
18 FLIGHT FOR SURVIVAL Sooty Terns get a clean sweep
Flight for Survival Jessica Law
Gui-Xi Young
20 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN #1
White Stork
22 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN #2
Egyptian Vulture
24 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN #3
Eurasian Blackcap
26 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN #4
Common Quail
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Eastern Imperial Eagle
30 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN #6
European Honey-Buzzard
32 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN #7
European Turtle-dove
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