UK Wildlife Photography Competition 2011 - Winners

wildlife news from the week of 27th november

• Four lane highway to destroy Indian tiger corridor
• Christmas for wildlife watchers
• Mega-dam in Peruvian rainforest halted by indigenous peoples' opposition
• Chancellor's new attack on nature
• Kent wildlife site at risk from 5,000 house development
• Wiltshire reserve digs deep for wildlife
• Call for changes to deadly antifreeze to stop wildlife poisonings
• Counting snow leopards in Nepal - Fewer than thought
• Extinct frog rediscovered in Israel
• Giant pandas coming to Edinburgh Zoo - What is the point?
• Littering and starting wild fires - All good fun?
• Fragmented rainforests can maintain their ecological functionality
• Wildlife laundering through breeding farms threatens wild populations
• A new species of ferret-badger discovered in Vietnam
• Winners of The UK Wildlife Photography Awards 2011

      bird news 

• Gamekeeper admits poisoning buzzards
• Public call on Government to save British humming birds, albatrosses and whales
• Measuring the threat to Jersey's birds
• Scotland's red kites weather the storms
• Don't encourage rats into your garden with birdfood
• Goats and rats removed from two Fijian islands

       WHALE, DOLPHIN AND MARINE NEWS

• Norway harpoons efforts to recognise whaling as threat to whales

        More wildlife and conservation news

• Alaska grizzlies targeted to boost moose and caribou hunts
• David Mayer releases new bronze sculptures
• 84 new species of ant-like flower beetles discovered in Wallacea and New Guinea
• New 'uncontacted' group found in the Amazon
• Six Black rhinos die of natural causes in Zambia's North Luangwa

Christmas for wildlife watchers

What to get them for Christmas? Something educational? Something worthy? Or something that they will enjoy?

Potentially all three wrapped into one.

Here are a few suggestions.

Case studies - Students of Durrell ITC driving conservation around the world

Conservation College 
One of Gerald Durrell's greatest legacies is the International Training Centre (ITC), where students from all over the world study and learn the latest techniques in conservation. The students then take their newly acquired knowledge back to their own countries, and from there they often help train more local staff and trainees.

Read more about Durrell alumni