Wildlife News Articles From May 2009

• First Red kites chicks for 150 years hatch in Aberdeenshire
• Loch Garten Ospreys untangled from fishing tackle
• UK Ospreys 2009 - First osprey chick in Dumfries in living memory
• Ships to avoid key feeding zones for North Atlantic right whales
• Scotland welcomes back the beaver – Wildlife Extra questions the cost
• First confirmed Polecat sighting in Buckinghamshire
• 21% of UK birds now on red list
• Maltese spring hunt continues unabated despite new rules
• Marine historians reconstruct images of past sea life that boggle today’s imagination;
• Peruvian navy ship runs aground in the Galapagos Islands
• All five species of marine turtles occurring in Vietnam nearing extinction
• New rainforest reserve to protect more than 1,000 bonobos and benefit local communities
• Male lions translocated to Liuwa Plain National Park
• New species of Arabian freshwater fish discovered in Oman
• WWF reaches target of protecting 100 million hectares of wetlands in 10 years
• Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species of 2008
• Peru recognizes private conservation areas on community lands in high Andes
• Population boom for one of world’s most endangered animals - Northern Hairy-nosed wombat
• Possible new population of North Atlantic Right whales discovered off Greenland
• Boost for migratory birds as Cyprus bans hunting in May
• Major study of inbreeding launched in East Anglia
• National Trust warns it will take decades for Studland Heath to return to former glory after fire
• More than half of the world’s threatened birds are threatened by invasive species
• 400 species of butterflies and moths recorded on Scottish nature reserve
• Leucistic Elephant seal
• Scotland’s whales at risk from military exercises
• Have you seen a Black swan?
• RSPB plea to leave baby birds alone
• Water voles reintroduced into the Trossachs
• 200 near-extinct tadpole shrimps hatch out at WWT Caerlaverock
• Critically endangered Blue-billed Curassows photographed on Colombian reserve
• Most oceans are warming causing fish stocks to move towards poles
• Aberdeenshire farmer wins award after corn bunting boost.
• South African authorities allow rhino hunt in Eastern Cape Reserve
• Mali’s elephants under threat from drought
• Scotland’s oldest breeding osprey has hatched two more chicks
• Six countries sign pact to protect the Coral Triangle
• Satellite tagged Honey buzzard returning to UK.
• RSPB launches new garden survey
• Mammals in USA moving northwards as temperature increases
• Sierra Leone & Liberia create major trans-boundary park
• Pulp giant APP set to assault Sumatra orangutan sanctuary
• Unusual and endangered bird gets extra protection in Sulawesi
• Islands should be top of protection priority
• Swallows nesting in a kitchen.
• Gabon identified as world’s largest leatherback nesting zone
• Grazing geese help maintain Somerset orchard
• Shocking seizure as two butchered tigers found in Thailand
• Leucistic baboons of the Luangwa Valley.
• Rare, tagged weta eaten by eel.
• Golden Eagle chicks hatch in Ireland’s Glenveagh National Park
• Goshawk chicks hatch in New Forest
• More birds are critically endangered than ever before – Now 1227 species
• Farmland birds down – especially in South East England
• Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns on USA’s West Coast
• Rwenzori Mountains become RAMSAR site
• Great Yarmouth little terns get beach patrol
• East Scotland Sea Eagles update – 1 death and a wide dispersal
• New Species of lizard discovered in Cuba
• UK Seahorse tagging project at Studland Bay in Dorset
• First cheetah birth in Nairobi National Park for many years.
• 21 endangered vultures poisoned in India
• US Environmental Protection Agency bans carbofuran
• First Bermuda petrel chicks from new population
• Anti-poaching patrol boat launched to protect Kaziranga
• Pygmy hogs thriving in the wild 1 year after reintroduction.
• Golden lion of South Luangwa, 2009 update.
• First basking shark sighting in Cornwall of 2009 – Volunteers needed for more sightings
• Plastic, and plastic bags in particular, are swamping the planet
• UK corncrake numbers looking good – Please help the survey
• Biologists rescue manatee entangled in fishing line in Florida Keys
• Endangered Green sea turtle rescued for a second time- From a car
• Spectacled petrel migration tracked– In danger of drowning in Brazilian longline fishery
• Gorilla, elephant and chimp meat found in huge haul of bushmeat seized in Cameroon
• Black-faced Spoonbill recovery falters
• Vast reserve to protect remote Prince Edward Islands in the Southern Ocean
• Elephant poachers released after paying small fine in Kenya
• 1000+ animals rescued from wildlife smugglers in Trinidad & Tobago
• Lost and abandoned fishing nets, crab pots and marine debris killing marine wildlife and choking the oceans.
• South Island robins released onto Abel Tasman island – New Zealand
• New population of Recurve-billed bushbird discovered on ProAves reserve
• Kakapo Encounter 2009
• Bird Ringing in Britain and Ireland is 100 years old – 36 million birds ringed
• Europe’s vultures thrown a lifeline as carcass rules change
• Proliferation of camps and lodges threatening the Masai Mara – “Cheetah Zoo” cancelled
• First jaguar photo taken at Smithsonian research station in Panama
• EU bans sale of all seal products
• Extraordinary 200 new species of frogs identified in Madagascar
• Satellite tracking albatrosses to discover where they range across fishing grounds
• Common dolphin refloated from Scilly Isles beach
• Nesting herons, nuthatches, jackdaws, swallows and ospreys on CCTV in Scotland
• New research into otter parasites in Somerset
• Spanish brown bears highly endangered by isolation, from each other.
• Mute swans nest at bottom of Sir Peter Scott’s statue at Barnes WWT
• 35 reptiles seized on flight in Western Australia
• Old warship to be sunk to create new reef off Florida