On the edge

Our showcase of category winners from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards 2025

The APOY judges choose their favourite images that didn’t make the top ten of our Animal Kingdom category

Beavers and red kites may be flourishing in Britain, but the reintroduction of apex predators here is a trickier issue. Could there be practical and philosophical benefits and would a trial release of lynx be a worthwhile experiment?

Daniel Pembrey picks out his top travel books of 2025

She grew up believing in divine creation, but a radical rethink led Ella Al-Shamahi to evolutionary biology. Now, the presenter of the BBC science series Human shares her story

AS you enter the gates of Monkey World in Dorset, you hear the howls of gibbons, the hoots of chimpanzees and the squeals of delighted children. The sanctuary opened with 10 primates in 1987 and now h