Wildlife News Articles From March 2010

• Elephant butchery in Tanzania an open secret – 31,000 elephants killed on the Selous National Park
• Despite pregnancy loss, conservationists still hopeful for Sumatran rhinos
• Sutton Fen restoration project complete
• Snowy owl on Guernsey
• Toads fled the Italian earthquake 5 days before it happened
• Ancient blind snakes were original inhabitants of Madagascar
• Saharan Carnivores project
• Turkeys on the loose in Sussex
• Congolese army destroying the wildlife of the Virunga National Park
• Regular osprey mum returns to Loch Garten
• Thousands of seal pups die as sea ice fails in Canada
• Kangaroo freed from stray hub cap in Australian cemetery
• Portugal creates 4 Marine Protected Areas covering 120,000 square km
• Gorilla habitat may be extinct by 2020 – Due to guerrillas
• Big Garden Birdwatch 2010 results
• New population of rare giant-mouse lemurs found in Madagascar
• Birds getting smaller as the world warms up.
• Record number of manatee deaths in Florida
• Parrot virus threat to New Zealand's rare birds
• White deer seen in the Forest of Dean
• Important butterfly reserve threatened with closure on the Wirral
• 'Rivers of flowers' call after huge decline in wildflower meadows
• Whale shark release from captivity by Dubai hotel
• Why there will never be more than 1,411 tigers in India
• New species of gecko discovered in Cambodia's Cardamon Mountains
• Did kingfishers have a terrible winter? Help British Waterways find out
• Gannets like to keep ahead of the neighbours at Bempton Cliffs
• CITES fails to agree new tiger farm rules
• Rhino countries to focus more on protection
• Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
• New mountain-tanager subspecies discovered in Colombia
• Red coral plight ignored by CITES
• New Zealand mining proposals worse than feared
• Endangered sharks plight ignored by CITES
• “Global butterfly loss deeply worrying” says Attenborough
• Elephant ivory imports allowed into the USA - Rednecks versus villagers
• Tanzania, Zambia ivory sales requests fail at CITES
• Carbofuran manufacture to be banned in the USA?
• Australian snakes tracked to monitor impact of cane toads
• New chalk stream nature reserve opens in Oxfordshire
• One of the world’s least known cats, the Flat-headed cat, is endangered by habitat loss
• Invasive species tracking project launched in the UK
• Vital grasslands protected by Cambodia government to protect Critically Endangered Bengal florican and others
• Georgia alligator spotted 20 miles out to sea
• Third ivory seizure in Tamil Nadu in less than a month
• Leucistic sparrow from New Jersey
• Canadian government raises kill quota for harp seal pups despite severe lack of ice habitat
• New Marine Act ignores seabirds
• Iceland whale meat exports defy EU law
• High Arctic species in worrying decline
• Disgrace as CITES ignores plight of Bluefin tuna
• Rock skipper frog leg waving dance caught on video
• 120 slow worms moved to make way for houses
• National Science and Engineering Week 2010 in bid to save UK’s iconic and most loved wildlife
• Antarctic whale research expedition returns to port
• West and Central Africa and South-East Asia allowing ivory trade to thrive
• Red alert warning for Europe’s dragonflies, beetles and butterflies
• New species of shrike described from Africa
• UK wildlife photography competition 2010
• Carnage continues in Zimbabwe
• Porous China-Myanmar border allowing illegal wildlife trade to thrive
• First California condor egg in Pinnacles National Monument for 100 years
• Rare Iranian salamander in danger of extinction due to internet pet trade
• Madagascar rainforests still being plundered - WWF
• Map of swift distribution in Britain
• Chinese medicine societies reject tiger bones
• Galapagos island to be repopulated with sterilized tortoises – Habitat engineers
• New Zealand government drawing up plans to allow mining on conservation land
• Proposed US legislation would prevent millions of bird deaths
• Leucistic Oystercatcher in Auckland
• Monkey fatalities in South America caused by Yellow fever
• Hundreds of pelicans stranding in California & Oregon
• Three seizures in three days: four leopard skins, two tusks recovered; 10 arrested
• US “State of the Birds 2010” report shows climate change threatens hundreds of species
• Elephant protection to be downgraded by CITES?
• Tawny owl tangled in fishing line put down
• Common pesticide identified as major threat to frogs worldwide
• 2000 litres of pesticides killed the fish in Lake Naivasha
• Scientists fail to find critically endangered Golden tree frog in Trinidad
• 40,000 toads to be rescued from death on Britain’s roads
• Leucistic collared dove in Texas.
• 500 species lost from England in 200 years
• Long-eared owls in South West England
• New species of carnivorous sponge found off New Zealand
• Alarm bells ringing over China’s rhino imports
• 75 starlings die in mystery crash landing
• Fake tiger skins and ivory appearing in India
• 2 tiger cubs have been killed on the edge of Ranthanbore National Park
• Raven impact on waders – Shooting lobby disagrees with the RSPB
• New species of sea worms discovered in Australia & Sweden
• Black-faced Spoonbill numbers up again as Action Plans are launched
• Alpine marmots spreading throughout the Catalan Pyrenees
• Predators not to blame for songbird decline
• Ivory tusks and elephant feet seized at Paris airport
• Devastating floods destroy 6 tourist lodges in Kenya’s Samburu National Park
• Musk ox population decline due to climate warming, not humans
• The World’s Rarest Birds photo competition
• USA in favour of resuming Humpback hunt
• Endangered Newell’s petrel threatened by luxury resort in Hawaii
• Millions of rats to be killed to protect rare South Georgia birds
• Lonesome George's eggs infertile again
• Cane toads approaching the last barriers to Western Australia
• New Indian Ocean tuna rules a joke – Better news for sharks and sea birds
• Huge new national park to be established in eastern Canada
• Huge INTERPOL investigation into illegal wildlife trade across 18 countries
• SSACN announce Sharkatag 2010
• Fears grow for future of Britain’s rarest butterflies
• Extinct Australian frog found alive after 30 years
• ARKive needs your photos and images of the world’s rarest wildlife
• Whale shark butchered for its fins in the Philippines
• One of Ireland’s first wild hatched Golden eagles has been poisoned
• Wildlife lethal sheep dip finally banned
• The Antarctic Whale Research Expedition
• Bringing bison back to North American landscapes
• Kakapo euthanized after health fails
• World’s rarest duck receives cash boost
• Wildlife worth more than gold in Guyana
• 2 tons of ivory seized at Bangkok airport
• Lake Naivasha in peril - Is the shrinking lake being poisoned?
• Rockhopper penguins in serious decline
• Rhino poachers released 'on bail' in Zimbabwe
• Polar bear species just 150,000 years old
• Slavonian grebe spotted at Worcestershire reserve
• Endangered Hooded plover has good breeding season in New South Wales
• Badger rescued from electric fence in Sussex
• Corn buntings declining in Scotland, but thriving at Strathbeg
• Restricting fishing time and zones will save many Mediterranean loggerhead turtles