Wildlife News Articles From July 2008

• South China tiger faker sent to prison
• Introduced Brown tree snake has stripped Guam of birds, may kill off trees too
• Two tonnes of wild animals siezed from smugglers in Vietnam
• Global warming experts recommend assisted migration to save species
• Birds started moving northwards 25 years ago
• Frog diseases spreading in the UK, please report possible outbreaks
• Mull Sea eagle chicks fitted with satellite tags
• Florida restaurant puts lion meat on the menu
• Lancashire Wildlife Trust starts new butterfly management project
• A new species of moth with carnivorous larvae discovered in Panama
• Glaslyn osprey chick seen in Scotland
• Leucistic Fallow deer in Scotland
• David Attenborough launches UK Butterfly Survival Zones
• Recently discovered Kipunji monkey is critically endangered
• Introduced Lionfish decimating tropical fish populations & threatening coral reefs
• 30% of all marine species don’t exist – 1 million do
• Manta Rays are two distinct species
• Puffin numbers drop 30% on Farne Islands in 5 years
• Mississippi closed by oil spill, huge bird scaring operation to start
• Government helps farmland birds with set-aside replacement
• Bird crime stats jump 40%
• Lonesome George about to become a father after 36 year wait
• Spotted hyenas can increase survival rates by hunting alone
• Chris Packham asks –‘What’s the point of nature reserves?’
• Leatherback turtles' newly discovered migration route may be roadmap to salvation
• Deadly Pesticide Carbofuran Residues banned from food in US
• Cleese happier to be a Lemur than a Knight
• World's first bumblebee sanctuary created in Scotland
• Government is playing down the serious nature of cattle TB
• India’s wetlands in urgent need of protection
• First wolf pack confirmed in Washington State since 1930
• Orchids blooming in restored Wiltshire grasslands
• World’s largest protected freshwater Ramsar site declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Unusually coloured animals from the Luangwa
• Unidentified frog photos taken in Peruvian Amazon
• Sussex wildlife rescue charity being over run.
• New wildlife research station opens up on Bioko Island - Equatorial Guinea
• Climate changes may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon
• Five Hen harrier chicks fledge in Northumberland
• New population of critically endangered bamboo lemur discovered in Madagascar
• Dolphin harassment – Dolphin watch guidelines
• Remote hot springs closed in Australia after croc sighting
• Red kites released in Mourne Mountains
• Vast swathe of Northern Canada protected
• China approved for controlled ivory imports from Africa – Arguments for and against
• Chinese nationals arrested for smuggling ivory in Kenya
• Marine survey of Britain’s remotest nature reserve to reveal undersea wildlife
• Common Scoter numbers fall for second year in Carmarthen Bay
• Kenyan government taken to court over Tana Delta destruction
• Breeding bird survey shows woodland birds down, stonechat, nuthatch and buzzard up
• Flamingos under threat in South Africa & Tanzania
• Eight new sites added to the World Heritage List
• RSPB to restore 600 acres of Kent countryside & wetlands - hopefully
• First kiwi chick on Maungatautari for 100 years
• Tasmanian Devils breeding early in response to disease - First known case
• Iconic silver studded blue butterfly thriving after the fire at Thursley National Nature Reserve
• Five more Asiatic black bears successfully returned to the wild
• No lynx kittens for second consecutive year in Colorado
• 10 arrested for possession of 125 venomous snakes and reptiles in Kentucky
• Damselfly attacking or mating with dragonfly? Photos.
• Unknown insect found in Natural History Museum garden
• Landowners unfairly penalised by fly tipping law
• New species of Mouse lemur discovered in Madagascar
• Orang-utan numbers lower than thought, still declining
• Nine percent decline in US water birds in last year
• Nature reserves attract human settlement, but at a cost to biodiversity
• Study shows that many birds migrate at night in dispersed flocks
• UK National Whale and Dolphin Watch Results 2008
• Another year of widespread seabird breeding failure on Scotland’s sea cliffs
• 30% of the world’s reef building corals endangered
• New species of ‘ghost’ slug discovered in Wales
• Giant 'extinct' British Beetle found in Gloucestershire
• 41 year old razorbill and 31 year old curlew amongst avian record breakers.
• Possums, stoats and rats stripping New Zealand’s forests – Poisoning debate
• Mass die-offs in wild lions can be precipitated by extreme climate change
• 5 skins of rare Clouded Leopard seized in India
• Kakapo chicks taken back to Codfish Island – all thriving
• Uniquely short lifespan for vertebrate discovered
• Scientists discover huge new coral reefs off the coast of Brazil
• Second tiger relocated to Sariska - Not settling well.
• ‘Wetland Vision’ sets scene for wetland creation and restoration across England.
• Garten ospreys to be satellite tracked for first time
• Survey doubles the number of world’s rarest ape
• Tigers disappearing from remote Nepalese wildlife refuge
• New species of bird-eating frog discovered in Thailand.
• Whale and dolphin strandings show big increase in Cornwall
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• Bumper year for Marsh harriers at Leighton Moss
• Rare damselfly habitat restored in Devon
• Leucistic impala photographed in South Africa
• Hundreds of Yorkshire seabirds drowning in fishing nets – fishery closed temporarily
• Putin agrees to move Olympic facilities due to ecological concerns
• Swordfish found on South Wales Beach
• Wildlife Trust statement on badger culling
• Avocets vs Agriculture? California’s Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge Turns 100
• Wild fire destroys California condor release centre and kills at least one chick
• Drowning bear rescued from sea by wildlife official
• Dormouse recovery in Surrey
• Golden eagle persecution preventing the bird’s recovery in England and Scotland
• Spanish admit taking 25% more tuna that quota allowance
• Six Shark Species added to Northeast Atlantic Threatened Species List
• First whooping cranes of the "Class of 2008" arrive at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge
• Endangered Quolls breeding well in captivity in Darwin
• First choughs chicks in far west of Cornwall for nearly 150 Years
• Canada, Mexico and the United States act to protect Monarch butterflies from illegal logging
• First tiger relocated to Sariska from Ranthanbore.
• South China tiger images acknowledged as fakes
• 320,000 acres of Montana bought by conservation societies
• Swans and Cygnets go walkabout in Eastbourne.