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The dawn chorus is worth getting up for, as Mike Dilger testifies on p32

For me, the dawn chorus acts

as nature’s wake-up call

PAUL McGUINNESS, EDITOR

Our cover feature this month (p40) reveals how changing attitudes to jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal holds the key to their survival. Local children were always excluded from the sort of wildlife experiences that see ecotourists flock to the

region, resulting in them seeing these majestic cats as ugly, smelly and dangerous. Perspective is key. This got me thinking about how formative wildlife experiences go a long way to informing our view of the nature on our doorsteps. It’s easy to take the familiar for granted. With all that’s going on in the world at the moment, I’ve increasingly found that it’s simple things, like buds bursting into life on the trees where birds belt out their dawn chorus (p32), that bring me comfort and hope. At this time of year, nature waking from its winter slumber fills me with life.

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