Wildlife News Articles From June 2007

• Forestry Commission Builds New Homes for Great Crested Newts in Herefordshire
• First Basking sharks of the season seen off UK coasts.
• Scott and Shackleton Penquin Sketches Found in Cambridge
• Overfishing Large Sharks Impacts Entire Marine Ecosystem
• Government takes the next step towards a Severn Barrage
• Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos
• The rare El Segundo Blue Butterfly is back from the brink of Extinction
• Plants and insects confused, blooming and mating in autumn and winter
• Sea turtle nesting sites found in Senegal
• Deadly seal virus returns
• Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace disagree over Polar bear hunting.
• Sea Shepherd Offers $25,000 Reward for Location of Japanese Whalers
• Sea Turtle conservation in the US
• Bad week for seal pups as many die and some are rescued after storms.
• Scientists discover 5 new species of sea slugs from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
• Sea Snake Species of Abu Dhabi
• Sea eagles released on Scotland's east coast.
• Sea hare, Aplysia fasciata caught off Dorset, now at the National Marine Aquarium
• Otters thriving again in Scotland; now found in almost every region
• Scottish basking sharks increase in numbers, SWT asks for protection.
• Three reserves declared as National Nature Reserves in Scotland.
• Scotland’s sea eagle numbers soaring higher
• Scottish Natural Heritage plans 'escape routes' for species to migrate
• Death of a Minke whale, an eye witness account
• First wild beavers in Scotland for 250 years to be caught.
• Spoon-billed sandpiper hits further trouble, numbers decline even more.
• Massive New Rainforest Reserve Established in the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect the Bonobo
• Huge new Coastal National Park to be created in Argentina.
• Bantam fosters crane!
• Major new wetland reserve to be created on Teeside
• Samboja Lestari - reforestation in Borneo.
• First wild saigas radio-collared in Mongolia's Gobi Desert
• Three Further Giant Fanshell Specimens Found Increasing UK Population By Over 25%
• Rare giant mollusc found in Salcombe Estuary
• Large birds have all but disappeared from the Sahel.
• Chimpanzee conservation in The Ruwenzori Mountains.
• Huge seizure of tiger skins, bear paws and saiga horns in Russian Far East
• LISTEN OUT FOR THE SCREAMING NEIGHBOURS, ASKS RSPB
• RSPB to survey only critically endangered bird visitor to Britain.
• Californian Condors
• Rockhopper penguins in sharp, worrying decline.