Wildlife News Articles From December 2006

• Researchers Discover Forests of Endangered Tropical Kelp off the Galapagos
• Rhino poaching in Kaziranga National Park
• Two more rhinos killed in Kaziranga NP, India.
• 18th rhino this year killed in Kaziranga, India.
• Kazakhstan signs RAMSAR treaty and protects wetlands.
• Yet another rhino killed in Kaziranga, poachers arrested.
• Letter from Zimbabwe; killing elephants to feed to crocodiles. Further information has come to light that shows this is untrue.
• Vast Stockpile of Illegal Skins Burned in Kashmir
• Gibbons released into a reserve
• Marabou stork chicks left to die.
• Kalahari bushmen return to their rightful home.
• Overfeeding Kakapo creates a bias in the sexes.
• Kakapo breeding season 2007-8 to use artifical insemination
• Stoat sighted on island sanctuary endangers kakapo survival.
• Oryx to be released into the wild, in Jordan.
• The Kaimanawa wild horses of New Zealand
• Jerdon's Courser, one of the world's rarest birds, threatened with extinction.
• When is a worm not a worm? When it’s a jellyfish…
• Record Increase in Breeding Tropicbirds on Jarnein Island, Abu Dhabi.
• Japanese whaling fleet sails for the Antarctic
• Sea Shepherd Launches Campaign to Disrupt Japanese Whaling: Operation Migaloo
• Jamaica's Cockpit country, a hugely important habitat for rare and endangered species, is under threat from Bauxite mining.
• Japan’s whaling fleet targeting Humpbacks for first time in more than 40 years.
• Ivory sales get the go-ahead from CITES
• Ignorant tourists still buying illegal wildlife products on holiday.
• Africa's rarest carnivore discovered in Tanzania.
• Ivory gull numbers plummet
• Ivory DNA study identifies source of huge Ivory haul
• Three rare Marsican bears killed in Italy
• Asian crime syndicates based in Africa fuel illegal ivory surge
• Kazakhstan ‘steppes’ up protection of endangered antelope
• White Tailed Eagles Released in Ireland
• Golden Eagle chick hatches in Donegal
• Huge leatherback turtle found dead off Ireland
• Red Kites fly again in Ireland.
• Iranian cheetahs given GPS collars
• Many new species of shark and ray discovered in Indonesia
• Hong Kong and Cameroon win Interpol Award
• More tigers killed in India
• Endangered bat colony attacked 'for a laugh' in the US
• Timber Smuggling from Indonesia Rises as Judicial Corruption Ensures Masterminds Behind US$20 billion Forest Crime go Unpunished
• Tiger numbers crash 60% in India.
• Six rhinos killed in India
• Three convicted of wildlife crimes in India
• A new species of frog, India's smallest, has been discovered in the Western Ghats
• Eu bans wild bird imports
• Campaign Against Illegal Poisoning of Wildlife
• New species of finch recognised in Idaho!
• IFAW calls for ivory ban on Ebay.
• Sea Shepherd to shut down Iceland whaling
• New population of Iberian lynx discovered in Spain.
• Iceland Calls a Halt to Whaling as No One Wants Whale Meat.
• Important wildlife sanctuary threatened by dam on South Island
• New legislation in South Africa severely restricts 'Canned Hunting'.
• US Hunting Company charged with a range of wildlife crimes
• Protests and outrage as Malta hunting season opens
• Satellite tracking Humpback whales in the Southern Oceans.
• Humber floods destroy Bearded tits and avocet nests.
• Dead whale spotted in the Humber
• Japan Suspends Humpback Whale Hunt
• Government gives go ahead to build an extra 642,000 houses in the South East – Environmental concerns ignored.
• First Houbara Bustard Nests in the UAE Desert for many Decades
• Origins of Greater Horseshoe Bat Uncovered
• Worldwide decline in honeybees puzzles and worries scientists