Wildlife News Articles From January 2009

• Sutton Fen gets £50,000 improvement award
• Illegal shooting of endangered black cockatoos in Western Australia
• Rare sighting of Hector's dolphin in Wellington harbour
• Flagship woodland reserve gets £17,210 to remove trees
• White-eyes form new species faster than any other bird
• 50 Sperm whales die after stranding in Tasmania
• Training initiative for fishery observers in Senegal to end overfishing
• Camera traps find jaguars and other rare species in Ecuadorian Amazon
• Elephant poacher shot and killed in Kenyan national park
• $57,750 prizes offered for new bycatch friendly fishing gear
• Outgoing Icelandic government increases whaling quota
• Glaucous gull chooses Arctic habitat in Gloucestershire
• Court approves destruction of marshes and its protected wildlife
• First sighting of Fraser’s dolphin in the Azores
• Whalergate – Secret Bush administration plan to legitimise Japanese whaling
• Dolphin strandings increase around the Cornish coast
• Record fall in New Zealand sea lion pups means minister must cut kill quota
• Emperor Penguins future endangered by warming
• Robins have worst breeding year on record in UK
• Black grouse numbers down in Scotland, up in England and Wales
• Dogs to protect villagers from man-eating tigers in the Sundarbans
• White-nose syndrome spreading through bats in North East America – Now in Pennsylvania
• Virunga gorilla population increases despite war
• Starlings flocking at Slimbridge
• Europe’s aquatic birds will seek new nesting sites in the face of global warming
• Oceanic superhighway from Indonesia to Australia revealed by Green turtle
• Poaching has long lasting effects on elephant social behaviour
• Vietnam’s Environmental Police record largest-ever seizure
• Governor Sarah Palin persecuting endangered beluga whales
• Poacher found guilty of killing a Black bear in Mississippi
• Bat search on Maungatautari is a prelude to translocation
• Orphan seal pups get new pool in seal sanctuary
• Penguins are walking an increasingly rocky road
• Top Russian officials that survived a helicopter crash suspected of poaching
• Is this the largest invasive species in the world? Hippos in Colombia
• The RSPB's Big garden birdwatch 24-25 January 2009
• Join Americas great Backyard Bird Count
• Carnivorous sea squirt amongst new species discovered off Tasmania
• Sperm whale migration route identified in Bay of Biscay
• Red squirrels released on Wester Ross estate
• Evolution in action - Fence lizards evolving to escape attacks by invasive Fire ants
• Tracking Manx Shearwaters on their 20,000 kilometres round trip
• Damaged Japanese whaler returning to Japan
• World’s last viable population of critically endangered addax surviving in Niger - just
• Fin whale stranding in Ireland
• Arabian Oryx returned to Jordan for release in Wadi Rum
• Asian rhino rescued from a mud-pit in India
• Siberian and Caspian tigers were same species
• Four dead tigers found in Thai truck
• Another gorilla ranger killed in Virunga National Park
• Crippled elephant calf reunited with its family in India
• Reef sponges – voracious but they hardly grow but are key to a reefs health
• South East Asia’s largest elephant population live in Taman Negara NP, Malaysia
• First fertile egg confirmed for kakapo breeding season
• Mixed fortunes for ringed plovers – Little ones are thriving but large ones are not
• Extremely rare venomous mammal caught on film
• Ningaloo Reef nomination for World Heritage status
• Bird crime map of Scotland published
• Culling of 30% of Yellowstone bison is unnecessary
• Giant Bird Poo Records Pre-human New Zealand
• Snowy owl in the Channel Islands
• Hair of Tasmanian tiger yields genes of extinct species
• Conservation cock up devastates Macquarie Island - £10 Million to fix
• Yorkshire fisherman escapes bird cruelty charges due to legal loophole
• First North Atlantic right whale sighting in Azores since 1888
• Stephen Fry surprised by Kaka while filming
• Cannibalism in leopards
• Leucistic zebra
• Cricket nets killing hedgehogs
• Chris Packham - Ecological cleansing
• WWT Slimbridge Swan Lake frozen
• Cold weather driving unusual birds into UK gardens
• Huge swathe of the Pacific to be protected
• Devon Wildlife Trust’s largest nature reserve increasing in size
• A new species of land iguana found in the Galapagos
• Endangered numbat population gets a boost in Western Australia
• 10 years of bird crime in Scotland – Not a single jail sentence
• Brazil declares whole coastline as a whale and dolphin sanctuary
• RSPB & BTO call for birdwatching break during the freeze
• High numbers of Northern right whales seen in Gulf of Maine
• Sea Shepherd breaks off from Japanese whaling fleet to refuel
• Stranded dugong saved in Philippines
• Tanzania forests yield 17 new species of amphibians and reptiles
• Gamekeepers given suspended jail terms for targeting birds of prey
• Argentina declares new coastal marine park to protect vital wildife areas.