Wildlife News Articles From November 2009

• Wildlife Christmas presents
• Wildlife poisoning in Africa
• Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doñana
• White opossum - Probably leucistic
• Reedbeds in the UK – Scarce and endangered
• ICCAT leaves albatross conservation dead in the water
• Otter released into the Utah River
• Plant a tree to lure wildlife into your garden
• University of Kent academic calls for national wildlife strategy
• 527 acres of Clee Hills bought by Shropshire Wildlife Trust
• New method for counting birds and other species revealed
• Put up your new nest boxes now
• Siberian tiger numbers in decline due to poaching
• Tracking Greater horseshoe bats in the Forest of Dean
• Red kite poisoned in Northern Ireland
• Pilot whale and Sowerby's Beaked whale strand in Ireland
• New chameleon species discovered in East Africa
• Economists fail to account for ‘natural capital’ – report
• World's only 2 baby orphan mountain gorillas to get unique custom-built sanctuary in DR Congo
• Rare Wild cat spotted in UAE
• Three more orphaned bear cubs to be released in India
• First 'No-shooting' shorebird refuge established in Barbados
• 2 arrested in Bangkok for ivory smuggling
• Worcestershire butterfly reserve to undergo ‘drastic’ improvement
• Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
• Dorset dairy farmer spots endangered butterflies on his farm
• Leucistic white-tailed deer in Maryland, USA.
• Europe’s red kites down by 30-40%
• Nepal winning war against rhino poachers
• 200,000 seabirds killed every year by European fisheries
• Royal Navy listens to protests and avoids Moray Firth dolphins
• Dogs to sniff out the last of Vietnam’s critically endangered rhinos
• Japanese whaling fleet sets sail – For the last time?
• Brown pelican population boom leads to removal from Endangered Species Act
• Wildlife tourism could prevent destruction of Lake Natron flamingos
• Endemic critically endangered Puerto Rican nightjar more widespread than thought
• Animal ID in Buckinghamshire
• Critically endangered Floreana mockingbird to be reintroduced to Floreana
• Tuna commission – A Turkey voting for Christmas?
• Endangered Oregon spotted frogs returned to native habitat
• Is eighty-year-old mistake leading to first species to be fished to extinction?
• 13,400 species on RSPB reserves – Less than 3% are birds
• 2009 – Excellent year for wildlife tourism in Scotland
• 700+ whales and dolphins seen from Scilly ferry
• Deer rescue in Hadlow Down
• Critically endangered Takahe numbers crash – But some good news
• Paraguay’s forests in crisis
• Painted lady butterfly migration mystery solved
• Unusual fly found in Scotland for the first time
• Water voles thriving on Leeds & Liverpool Canal
• Joint forces to prevent extinction world’s smallest rhino
• Further success for world’s rarest duck as population doubles
• Red kites spreading into England from Wales
• Huge 130 km long deepwater gillnet confiscated in Antarctic
• India High Court rules for elephants against developers
• Leucistic Blue tit in Runcorn, UK.
• Don’t cut hedges yet – Birds need the berries
• Isle of Wight is the most important area for woodland bats in Europe
• An end to Japanese whaling?
• Big jump in illegal ivory seizures - Nigeria, DRC & Thailand are hotspots
• Africa's rarest monkey interbred with baboons
• Squirrel pox outbreak in Lancashire’s Red squirrels
• Baby orangutans orphaned and abused in Borneo
• Where are the tawny owls – BTO wants your records
• Rare birds faring better in the UK than common birds
• New wildlife trade rules for tuna, sharks coral & ivory proposed - Tanzania & Zambia want to allow elephant hunting
• Great spotted woodpeckers confirmed breeding in Ireland for the first time
• 109 more hedgehogs removed from Scottish islands
• Community based nature reserves to protect Grauer’s Gorillas
• Slow loris & leopard cat amongst wildlife seized from trader in Java
• Tracking Sea lions in Western Australia
• Rubber Dodo award for US real estate developer who specialises in unsustainable development
• Reptile survey in Vietnam national park
• Steppe eagle satellite tracking
• New reserve created in Dominican Republic to protect threatened endemics
• Unusual migration of Eleonora’s falcon revealed
• 1000 hectares of degraded land to return to the wild in Borneo
• Buckinghamshire flood meadows bought by Wildlife Trust
• New World monkeys threatened by El Nino & El Nina events
• Amur leopards threatened by bureaucracy
• $3 million pledged to help stem Hawaiian bird extinction crisis
• White rhino calf born in Nairobi National Park
• New wildlife and roads for Addo Elephant National Park
• First sighting of England’s biggest insect in Yorkshire
• Bird Atlas needs your bird records – Especially Ireland, Wales & Scotland
• West Australia oil leak still pouring oil into the sea after 2 months – Marine life disaster
• Madagascar Pochard - The world’s rarest ducklings hatched in captive breeding programme
• Scotland’s wild beavers build their first lodge
• Queen of Spain Fritillary butterfly breeding in Sussex
• Bird table hygiene is vital – What to do
• Farmland bird decline continues; but woodland and wetland birds improve
• Karoo National Park to Introduce Lions to Mark 30th Anniversary
• Bitterns and large flocks arriving at WWT London
• Nepal adds 900 sq Kms. To Bardia National Park to protect tigers
• Sea turtle rescue in Kuwait
• Wildlife can thrive on golf courses
• Expeditions to search for new species in Mozambique & Madagascar
• Toxic shipwreck an ecological disaster for southern Madagascar
• Conserving leopards in Yemen
• Biodiversity loss shows no signs of slowing down - IUCN
• Elephants captured by Zimbabwe game lodge to be removed and released back into wild after cruelty allegations
• Cambodia creates new park to protect tigers, elephants and carbon