Wildlife News Articles From May 2008

• Bird conservation statistics reveal north-south divide
• Last ditch attempt to save world’s most endangered animal - Yangtze giant softshell turtle
• Bats to be used as wildlife indicators
• Black-winged stilts breeding in Cheshire
• Rare wildlife destroyed by heathland blaze in Dorset
• Government may lift bird import ban
• Black-tailed godwits hatch at WWT Welney
• Marine scientists marvel at vast "Brittlestar City” found on huge seamount in Antarctica
• Second batch of stitchbirds released into Auckland’s ‘Ark in the Park’
• The world’s biodiversity has crashed as resource use soars
• Endangered Banteng found in Central Kalimantan
• Iceland resumes commercial whaling
• UK wildlife winners and losers from global warming
• Two more UK birds classified as ‘Near Threatened’
• 25% of the world’s newly endangered birds are found on British territory
• Four arrested in Nepal in possession of leopard skins
• Scottish Wildlife Trust & RSPB propose new course design for controversial Trump golf course
• Nepalese army personnel suspected of involvement in rhino poaching
• Another new species of lizard discovered in India
• Very Rare Crucifix ground beetle rediscovered at Wicken Fen
• Lake District Ospreys - first photographs
• New system devised for counting wild animal populations
• Complete ecological assessment of Africa's protected areas
• Asian vultures to be extinct in ten years without immediate action
• A thousand nature sites at risk from EU transport projects across Europe
• Lead poisoning from lead shot
• Pirate vessels looting Mediterranean tuna
• Rare albino tadpoles found in Wales
• Work begins on massive planting scheme to double ancient woodland
• Assam Government bows down to pressure for rhino poaching investigation
• Sea birds returning to Canna
• Reducing elephant – human conflict
• Lake Natron flamingos safe? For now
• Rare fritillary numbers boost at Devon reserve
• Pair of Snowy owls seen in the Hebrides
• Badger watch with the Forestry Commission
• The pygmy hog, once thought extinct, is reintroduced to its native habitat in north eastern India
• Marine sightings from Irish waters
• Some dolphins are party animals
• A new species of lizard found in India's Western Ghats
• Vast Tejon Ranch agreement protects vital condor habitat in California.
• Tigers moving to higher altitude in Bhutan
• New species of “Rock and Roll” spider
• Elephants, rhinos and tigers butchered - The end of the world is nigh?
• Map of global freshwater systems and world distribution of freshwater fish, turtles, amphibians and crocodiles published
• Seed dispersal in Mauritius - dead as a dodo?
• Greenpeace confiscates ‘wall of death’ fishing net in the Mediterranean Sea
• Spate of rhino poaching in Assam and Nepal prompts calls for government action.
• Bikini corals recover from atomic blast
• Hen harriers incubating 6 eggs on Northumberland nest
• 17 elephants killed by poachers in Virunga
• Bangkok market revealed as a hub for illegal international trade in freshwater turtles and tortoises
• New fish species discovered in Virginia
• Bolivian River Dolphin declared new species
• Threat to major Kenyan wetland from biofuels
• Six critically endangered blue iguanas butchered in Cayman Islands breeding facility
• Volunteers needed for Cornish basking shark surveys
• Six Sea lions shot dead on US west coast- Sea lion relocation efforts suspended
• Farne Islands puffin count gets underway
• Bison could roam across North America once more
• Lizards introduced to new island underwent rapid evolution
• Dwarf cloud rat rediscovered in the Philippines after 112 years
• Unsustainable hunting practices wipe out vast colonies of seabirds in Greenland
• Dwarf woodpecker and legless lizard among 14 new species discovered in Cerrado region of Brazil