Wildlife News Articles From August 2006

• Dartford warblers on the increase
• Goshawks and peregrines wiped out as killing goes on in Dark Peak
• New species of mouse discovered in Cyprus
• Dancing bears 'tradition' to be halted in India
• Slaughter sanctioned by Cyprus government
• 52 Red footed falcons shot in Cyprus
• Unusual call of rare Sumatran ground cuckoo recorded for first time
• New osprey nesting platforms erected in Cumbria
• Squacco heron in London
• Crackdown on wildlife crime in Scotland.
• Global warming may threaten crocodiles
• China’s rarest bird on the brink of extinction
• Endangered Puerto Rican crested toad tadpoles released into the wild.
• ‘Crane School’ established at WWT Slimbridge to train new generation of wild cranes in Britain
• The Cozumel Thrasher, one of the rarest birds in the Caribbean, is feared extinct.
• WINTER BIRDS IN CORNWALL THRIVING, BUT CORN BUNTINGS IN TROUBLE
• Cirl Buntings breed in Cornwall for the first time in 200 years.
• 'Alleged' Great white shark sighting off Cornwall.
• Biggest Thresher Shark ever, caught off Cornish Coast
• Minke whale killed by ship off Cornwall
• Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Fox Club ‘Springwatch’ events
• Cornwall Wildlife Trust launches their new boat
• Two unusual finds in Cornwall.
• Huge increase in marine strandings in Cornwall.
• Growing crisis in Scottish livestock farming threatens corncrake recovery
• Outrage as 32 corncrakes are poached in Greece
• Vast coral deaths in Indonesia
• Coral Sea Needs protecting before it is too late.
• Some conservation successes amongst the threat of increased extinction
• Batfish rescues coral reef from weeds.
• Fifth Generation of Ultralight-led Whooping Cranes Reaches Florida Wintering Grounds
• Anti-Poaching Initiative launched in The Congo by coalition of charities
• Greece found guilty of infringing European conservation law
• As many as 1 million Conch shells illegally killed for meat.
• Endangered California Condor chicks hatch in the wild
• Amazing Specimen Of World's Largest Squid Caught In New Zealand
• Colorado Lynx re-introduction project, September 2006.
• Columbia Pygmy Rabbits released into the wild
• Two New Species of Poison Dart Frogs Discovered in Colombia
• Stunning new hummingbird species discovered in Colombia
• New species of butterfly discovered in Colombia
• Remote Scottish islands a stronghold for one of the UK's rarest insects
• Whales and dolphins threatened by climate change.
• CITES recommend Euthanasia for orang-utans
• Cinerous vultures, the largest in Eurasia, have a huge range
• Cirl buntings re-introduced into Cornwall.
• Climate change moves Arctic ice northward, endangering walruses.
• What to feed garden birds over Christmas.
• Traditional Chinese medicine shop owner fined for Endangered animal breaches.
• Wildllife Trust Christmas Events
• Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees
• Monarch Butterflies Get Enhanced Protection
• Cheetah cheaters. Female cheetah are surprisingly promiscuous.
• Chimpanzees use spears and tools to hunt other mammals