Wildlife News Articles From June 2010

• Marine conservation zone map needs your input
• New ‘biodiversity scheme’ in Scotland involves persecution of crows, foxes, stoats and weasels
• Pine Marten rediscovered in England!
• Polar bears threaten endangered Barnacle geese
• Yet another Florida panther killed on a road
• 92 Pilot whales strand on Cape Verde Islands
• Large blue butterfly to be reintroduced into the Cotswolds
• Sea eagles on Mull being mobbed by buzzards and crows - Images
• IWC meeting ends in failure to protect Southern Oceans
• Recently released Scottish beaver dies - 2 more released
• Swift response: Londoners’ help needed to spot iconic birds
• Ecosystem restoration in Indonesia
• Purple herons breed for the first time in the UK
• Questions raised over Greenland’s ‘subsistence’ whaling as supermarkets and hotels fuel demand
• Video: See the daring relocation of a silverback gorilla
• Russia puts oil and gas development before whales
• Africa’s action plan to save chimpanzees
• Illegal orangutan trade: three arrested
• Whaling compromise rejected by IWC - Good or bad news?
• Census reveals Greater flamingo is UAE's most common bird
• Sand dredging destruction in Borneo
• Discovery of how coral reefs adapt to global warming could aid reef restoration
• Sea Shepherd frees 800 caged bluefin tuna
• Freshwater ecosystems at risk, say Swiss researchers
• Radio collars for two orphaned bear cubs in India
• Squid fishing threatens New Zealand’s sea lions with extinction
• Cat baiting trialled in fight to save Critically Endangered Western ground parrot
• Game, set and mouse: tennis balls a perfect home for harvest mice
• Ray of hope for ravaged Madagascar forests
• Six orca sighted off Durness on Scotland’s north coast
• Small oil spill in the Solent
• Swift help needed from builders
• Antarctic whaling ban crucial for Southern Hemisphere whales
• Hunting Sandhill cranes in America
• Fears mount for survival of UK’s most famed osprey
• Leucistic Hairy woodpecker in Massachusetts
• GPS tracking gives insight into hunting habits of Brazilian jaguar
• Elusive Black-footed ferret enjoys its first spring on Canadian prairies for 70 years
• Coral Triangle fishers work together to stop indiscriminate killing
• Three-year jail term for 12 Indian wildlife trade accomplices
• Sniffer dogs trained to search for elusive & endangered species
• Natural England withdraws funding from white-tailed eagle reintroduction project
• Good year for rare Marsh fritillary butterfly in Devon
• Adders will go to great lengths to find a mate
• Three sperm whales killed by oil spill - Could threaten Gulf of Mexico’s entire population
• New species of Large Blue butterfly
• African penguins suffer under stormy weather conditions
• Why foxes -and other carnivores - love fruit
• Ninety red kites set to soar in the Lake District
• Albatross - Longline deaths reduced by 90%
• Beauty spot eyesores – Name and shame
• Asiatic lion numbers up as training project pays off
• Illegal bushmeat trade rife in Europe
• Critically Endangered Bonneted bat is alive and well in Florida
• Orphaned Seals Saved By RSPCA Wildlife Centre
• £13,000 to protect red squirrels from their grey cousins
• New gecko species identified in West African rainforests
• Harsh winter takes its toll on UK’s smallest bird
• Six seals shot dead in Shetland
• TV wildlife show to raise money for wildlife causes.
• Maltese lizard declared extinct.
• The nature of London - wildlife film-makers take on the capital
• Norwegian whaler filmed taking an age to kill a Minke whale
• Three Hawksbill turtles satellite tagged in Kuwait for the first time – Follow them online
• 300 Madagascan tortoises confiscated at Kuala Lumpur Airport
• New spate of rhino poaching in Nepal
• Mammals on roads survey
• Rescuers fight to save the life of a baby orangutan
• European bison imported into Spain
• Two new National parks created in Brazil
• Silverback family who can’t live with each other… or without
• Tokyo Two face stiffest jail term in Greenpeace’s history
• Addo buffalo fetch record price at Kirkwood Auction
• Just 48 Javan rhinos remain – and now two deaths in as many months
• Annual Bluefin tuna quota caught in 1 week
• Orangutan savagely beaten in Borneo
• Senior politicians from around the world act to save the ocean’s fisheries
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society dump captain who had bow and arrows.
• Four Great bustard chicks hatch in the wild in the UK
• Red squirrels discovered adopting relatives' young
• Eight dancing bears rescued from Nepal
• Eight dancing bears rescued from Nepal
• Eagle owls threatening Hen harrier survival in England’s only stronghold
• Cat’s cradle of fishing gears decimating Europe’s seabirds
• Hope for Australia's Fairy Wrens as they’re airlifted back to old home
• Man-made London habitat is a rare success
• Rare parrot rescued from brink of extinction
• Ringing at BT office: Keeping track of London’s peregrines
• UK’s Large Blue butterfly rewrites record books…again
• Famous bull elephant killed by hunters in Zimbabwe
• Wild Whooping crane chicks hatch at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge
• Snake populations declining worldwide
• Badger cull goes to the Court of Appeal
• Whale shark in Abu Dhabi harbour
• Polar region is shrinking – It's official
• Mediterranean Gray whale sighted off Barcelona
• Risso's dolphins seen off the north of Scotland
• 18% decline in bees in UK in 1 year
• New highway to cut the Serengeti in half?
• ‘Lost’ marsupial species found in Australia’s Northern Territory
• Scottish estate raided after birds poisoned
• Saltwater crocodiles ride ocean current around the South Pacific
• Watch out for ticks & Lyme disease now the warm weather is here
• World cup safari football team
• 12,000 critically endangered Saiga antelope found dead in Kazakhstan
• Arctic sea ice cover heading towards record low
• Indonesian rare bird is the unlikely beneficiary of avian flu research
• New home for Australian red-tailed phascogales
• Elephant seals reveal secrets of Antarctic deep
• Working across borders to stop Asian poaching trade
• Nine new species of threatened handfish
• Two new frog species discovered in Panama’s fungal war zone
• House martins running late for a second year running
• Toxic frogs breeding in Portsmouth
• Elusive Little Thorn moth reappears after 150 years
• Precious habitats in Cornwall still being destroyed
• Keeping track of invading tree bee
• Long-tailed tit with ELEVEN mouths to feed
• First record of Greater kestrel in West Africa
• Giant tortoises released onto Pinta Island for the first time for 40 years
• 25 new beetle species found in Turkish oaks
• Australia’s woodland birds declining at an alarming rate
• M & S launch butterfly conservation campaign
• Meerkats as pets?