Latest wildlife news
- At home in the wild – rehabilitated bear spotted safe and well
- The world’s most endangered frog – Just 1 known animal left
- More than 200 elephants slaughtered in Cameroon since January - massacre continues
- BTO cuckoos heading north
- Rare bats discovered in Cheshire for first time in half a century
- Thai wildlife rescue centres raided by local officials
- Rwandan gorilla permits to jump by 50 percent in June to $750
- First gannet of 2012 lands on the world-famous Bass Rock
- Indian vulture crisis update – Diclofenac still widely used
- Gamekeeper filmed killing wild birds in a cage – Courts won’t prosecute
- Sniffer dog helps recover 32 kg of ivory
- Huge migration of tiny songbird revealed
- Europe’s rarest seabird recovering from fire
- Lady of Liuwa gets 2 sisters as lionesses are relocated to Liuwa National Park
- The poster that may save India’s parrots
Recent wildlife news
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- Nature Photography 2012 award winners announced
- Digging deep to save Florida’s manatees
- South Georgia seabird sanctuary receives £250,000 to eradicate rats
- Building a new home for Somerset’s bitterns
- Little-known pygmy Nile crocodile found in new areas of Uganda
- Irrawaddy & Gangetic dolphins protected by three new sanctuaries in Bangladesh
- Ancient Sahara site celebrated for World Wetlands Day
- New hope as Sumatran rhino Ratu falls pregnant again
- India’s wolves struggle for survival
- 1,500 live turtles found crammed into suitcases
- How toilet paper is threatening Indonesia's tigers
- Arizona wolf numbers are up
- Another leucistic impala - This time on the Serengeti
- Big boost for wildlife conservation: 23 new SOS projects
More than 200 elephants slaughtered in Cameroon since January - massacre continuesPoachers slaughtered at least 200 elephants for their tusks in Cameroon in a continuing killing spree that began in mid-January.
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Lady of Liuwa gets 2 sisters as lionesses are relocated to Liuwa National ParkDespite responding enthusiastically to her new companions and engaging in copious mating activity, The Lady of Liuwa failed to produce any cubs over an 18 month period. Despite Lady Liuwa's worldwide fame, the prospects of a viable lion population at Liuwa once again seemed dire. So in mid 2011, African Parks took the decision to introduce new lionesses to ensure the continuance of lions in Liuwa, despite the potential threat that new females could pose to the now aging Lady Liuwa.
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When the gorillas came visiting....The guests at a tented campsite in Bwindi Impenetrable Park in Uganda had a major surprise when they got up early for breakfast. Rather than having to go trekking through the mountainous jungle to look for a family of gorillas, the gorillas had come to visit them in their camp.
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New hope for world’s rarest gorillaThe world's rarest gorillas have more suitable habitat than previously thought. Encouragingly, the area includes vital corridors that, if protected, can help Cross River gorillas move between sites in search of mates.
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Sumatran elephants edging closer to extinction WWF is calling for an immediate moratorium on habitat conversion in Sumatra in order to protect the future of the country's elephants. The Sumatran elephant has been uplisted from ‘endangered' to ‘critically endangered' after losing nearly 70 per cent of its habitat and half its population in one generation.
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'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in BorneoAn international team of scientists has found one of the rarest and least known primates in Borneo, Miller's Grizzled Langur; a species which was believed to be extinct or on the verge of extinction.
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Albino bat photoA white, probably albino (we are debating whether it is albino or leucistic) bat photographed by Doug Mackenzie Dodds
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New primate species discovered on MadagascarA Malagasy-German research team has discovered a new primate species in the Sahafina Forest in eastern Madagascar, a forest that has not been studied before. The new species has been named 'Gerp's mouse lemur' (Microcebus gerpi).
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80 percent decline in Caribou blamed on big industryThe world's largest reindeer herd has plummeted in size, with local indigenous people blaming the spread of massive industrial projects in the area. The George River herd, which once numbered 8-900,000 animals, stands today at just 74,000 - a drop of up to 92 percent.
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Possibly the largest haul of ivory ever found, 15 tonnes, seized in MalaysiaAfter the recent spate of ivory seizures in Asia - We might have hoped that the situation would improve - However the latest seizure is the largest we can remember, and is possibly the largest ever. It dwarfs all the other seizures, and in fact probably contains as much ivory as has been seized all year in the Far East.
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