Wild about wildlife
I just wanted to write to you to let you know how much enjoyment your magazine has brought to me and my family members during these troubling pandemic times.
To be honest, I’m not a regular buyer of magazines but during lockdown I had a birthday and my best friend bought me a subscription to BBC Wildlife Magazine. Several editions later, I just can’t imagine what I must have missed out on by not buying this magazine sooner.
I am an illustrator – much of my work is inspired by nature – and the magazine has been hugely inspiring for my work, especially as the lockdown put a stop to some of my usual nature excursions from taking place.
When some of the restrictions did briefly lift, I managed to get away with my family. I took along my magazines – now my stepdad is hooked, too. So much so that my mum bought him a subscription for Christmas. Along with this, my mum enjoys watercolour painting and she used the great images in BBC Wildlife to paint, with some lovely results.
Thanks again for being a pleasure in these otherwise worrying times. Ruth Palmer, Scotland 2020) is something familiar to me. As a teenager who is very interested in nature, I know that a lot of teenagers don’t know much about it.
The article, thankfully, does not suggest this is due to too much time on screens, which is a relief as ‘you spend too much time on screens’ has become a reason used by a lot of parents as an explanation for almost everything, and it’s rarely right.