Wildlife News Articles From August 2008

• Bubonic plague outbreak amongst Black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs in South Dakota
• Splitters identify new species of Goliath grouper
• New species of giant clam discovered in the Red Sea
• Large whale washed up onto Sussex beach
• Huge populations discovered of two of Asia’s rarest primates
• World’s oldest species resurfaces in Scotland
• Best year for bitterns for 130 years in Britain
• Grey seal takes up residence in London
• Adelaide dolphins learn to ‘Tailwalk’
• Two elephants killed by Hutu militia in Virunga
• African lion populations declining steadily - Will reintroduction be the only way to save some populations?
• Ocean 'dead zones' multiply from 4 to 400
• Greenpeace put rocks on sea bed to snag bottom trawling nets and discourage sand extraction
• First hatching of Green turtles in southwest Madagascar as a direct result of conservation efforts
• Penguin watching threatening New Zealand penguin colony
• Cold War-era uranium processing plant reopens as nature preserve
• Elephant electrocuted in India's Orissa State
• Grazing animals will exacerbate warming
• Florida’s wildlife to be paved over by 2060
• Garden wildlife traps – Otherwise known as bird feeders and netting
• 10% of US rarest waterfowl found dead
• New farming methods bring spark of hope for conservation in some of Africa's harshest environments
• New invasive beetle species, The Citrus Longhorn beetle, confirmed in the UK
• Pool frog, and rare snail & moth gain legal protection
• Even the most sensitive tourism might be bad for wildlife
• Congo army Major arrested for illegal wildlife trade
• One of world’s rarest birds handed a lifeline
• A dozen invasive species choking canals and killing native wildlife
• Red-breasted Goose population declines by 50% in 10 years
• David Attenborough champions BirdLife International's work halting extinctions
• Common dolphin and calf strand in Ireland - Euthanised
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• Sea-bird chick survival rate reduced by moth parasites
• Are the world's oceans in imminent danger of ‘Ecosystem collapse’?
• Mink trapping steps up a gear in the Hebrides
• New population of Bornean Clouded leopards discovered in Kalimintan
• Mediterranean Whale survey indicates declining numbers
• Zimbabwe National Parks authorize shooting of elephants & big game for meat
• New Forest Robin bird species discovered in Gabon
• Canadian art dealer gets 5 years for ivory smuggling
• Global warming - British birds nesting earlier, changing distribution
• Fire in Addo Elephant National Park
• Blue Marlin found on Welsh beach.
• Fifteen Sea eagle chicks released in Eastern Scotland
• Fair Isle bird observatory appeal
• Critically endangered Brazilian Mergansers to be radio tagged
• Dead wood vital for UK wildlife
• British wildlife watching increasingly popular
• Marine litter trashing Scotland’s Knoydart Peninsula -Killing 100,000 marine mammals per year.
• Bluefin tuna tagging project launched in the Mediterranean
• 95% drop in demand for plastic bags in National Trust shops - Shows what can be done for 5p per bag.
• RNLI Lifeguards to report marine wildlife sightings
• Spotted kiwi have been reintroduced to New Zealand’s Fiordland
• Leucistic swans in Hampshire
• Biofuels shambles highlighted
• Humpback whales recovering, other cetaceans edging towards extinction
• Hen harrier 'ceiling' would protect Grouse and harriers
• US Scientists use naval exercises to research how marine mammals react to sonar
• 6000 new Leatherback turtle nests discovered in Panama & Colombia
• Second kiwi chick for Maungatautari?
• Older matriarchs the key to elephants surviving droughts
• Addo update - Lion cub and Black rhino calves
• Zimbabwe rhino poachers sentenced to 27 years
• Large Blue butterfly thriving on Somerset’s hills
• Intelligence training to help save India's tigers
• Trawling is a major threat to endangered albatrosses
• Wildlife news RSS feed now available.
• Orphaned giraffe gives birth in Kenya’s Meru four years after rescue
• Wildlife Trust underwater photo competition results – I can’t believe it’s the UK
• 14 Tonnes of Pangolins seized from illegal wildlife trade
• Essex man pleads guilty to selling CITES listed Arowana fish
• Two Czech ‘scientists’ arrested in India for wildlife crime
• Eight leopard skins recovered in India
• Climate change can and will alter species habitats and distribution
• Critically Endangered Western Swamp tortoises released at Moore River Nature Reserve
• Huge numbers of Western lowland gorillas discovered in the Republic of Congo – Great news tinged with incompetence?
• New hope for threatened Thurrock Marshes insect haven
• Caribou calf mortality caused by global warming
• Leucistic snapping turtle
• £88,000 project to boost Wood White butterfly in Herefordshire
• Elephant poaching reaching record levels.
• 50% of world's primates endangered
• World's smallest snake discovered in Barbados
• WWF urges global consumers to boycott Mediterranean bluefin tuna
• Sperm whale stranding on the Moray Firth
• Snakes and snakebite in the UK
• Four buzzards poisoned in Dumfries and Galloway
• Stoats cleared from Resolution Island
• Police bungle leads to swan killing case being dropped
• Minke whale rescued from Firth of Forth