Wildlife News Articles From June 2006

• Protests Over Wash Barrage Proposal.
• Bolam Lake Country Park
• Heavy rains causing starvation for flamingos at Bogoria
• White-tailed sea eagles threatened by wind farms.
• Record number of bird species heading towards extinction
• UNEP & IUCN urge action to avoid deep trouble in the deep seas.
• DEFRA rules against bird scaring on The Wash.
• Lake Naivasha is threatened by rampant water usage.
• Conservation of the endangered Grevy's Zebra.
• The search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker goes on.
• RSPB given special dispensation to pump water onto Elmley Marsh.
• River dolphins under threat in Nepal
• Mediterranean Bluefin tuna fishery closed for 2007
• Albatrosses on South Georgia in rapid decline.
• Last chance for world’s most endangered mammal
• Blue Ventures
• Blue whale calls
• Spate of Blue whale deaths off California
• New Parrot discovered in Queensland
• Early Bird Catches the Snake
• North America's rarest mammal, the Black-footed ferret, was rediscovered 25 years ago.
• Can't see the grouse for the trees: Black grouse decline linked to forestry.
• North America's Most Endangered Mammal Making Headway
• Bay of Bicay whale and dolphin cruise
• Bittern nests washed out heavy rains
• Bitterns breeding in the Fens for the first time for 70 years
• RARE VISITORS SEEN DURING BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH
• 80 percent of dolphins missing from the Bay of Biscay.
• Bird extinction accelerated by man.
• New stamps celebrate bird conservation
• Experts predict busy bird tables this winter
• UK Wild bird populations 2005.
• Import ban saves many thousands of wild birds
• International Bird Of Prey Conference
• The world's largest bird conservation programme targets 189 most endangered birds.
• Arkansas woodpecker not an Ivory-billed says scientist
• British birds ‘Stock-take’ underway with over 1 million birds recorded.
• Land Purchase Protects Elephant Corridor in South India
• More than 150 endagered and big cats kept in UK private collections
• Little egrets breed in Berkshire for the first time, but site future threatened by development.
• RSPB buys land in Europe for the first time
• Cambodia protects endangered Bengal florican
• Beaver re-introduction may go ahead in Scotland
• Scottish Beaver License Applied For
• Belinda Wright talks to the Hindustan Times about the prospects for the Gir lions.
• 7 Sloth bear cubs rescued in India
• Beavers helping frogs and toads to survive.
• Scottish community votes in favour of reintroducing the beaver
• 'Albino' Bearded tit spotted in Lancashire.
• Targeting Male Polar Bears can lead to collapse of the population.
• Batmobile goes to Transylvania
• WSPA launches ‘Bear Detection’ kit to detect bear bile in Asian medicine
• Bats suffer badly in wind farms, but a solution may be at hand.
• UK bats still under threat from people ignoring the law
• Making space for bats
• Scientists find that some bats eat birds!
• Basking shark watching in Cornwall
• Basking sharks threatened by the shark fin trade
• Basra Reed Warbler breeding in Israel
• Record number of basking sharks seen off Cornwall
• President Barroso highlights the value of wildlife conservation to the European Union
• New Species of Barkfly recorded in Britain for the First Time
• UK endangered bird list increases by 125 Percent.