First osprey chicks appearing across the country
Osprey chicks have been appearing across the UK in the last week, and, amazingly, more osprey eggs too. We think the first chicks to hatch were, as usual, in north Wales, at the Glaslyn Osprey project. Amazingly, just a few miles down the road, the Cors Dyfi ospreys have laid their first egg of the season and it's one of the latest eggs ever laid by an osprey in the UK.
Latest wildlife news
- First osprey chicks appearing across the country
- Camera traps open up hidden corners of China
- Several sightings of dolphins off the Isle of Man – Are Bottlenose dolphins moving north?
- Osprey egg snatch thwarted on Threave Estate
- Bone study shows impact of sea fisheries on seabirds
- First wild born bison in Germany for 400 years
- Arizona water pumping decision threatens millions of birds in Globally Important Bird Area
- Sixty per cent of UK species in decline, groundbreaking study finds
- INTERPOL step up the fight against wildlife crime
- Greater flamingos return to Gabon for the first time in decades
- New species of green pit viper found in Honduras
- Vote now to help prevent rhino poaching
- Fishermen successfully release Whale shark from net off Pakistan
- Defra statistics show bTB soared after cattle imports
- New Black grouse lek found in the Ochil Hills
Recent wildlife news
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- Chinese police seize ivory, rhino horn and live animals in illegal wildlife trade clampdown
- Whole village to be moved from elephant corridor in India
- 100 square miles of Yorkshire's precious peatlands have been restored
- Whole population of Chalky Island skink lives on just 50 x 50 metre area
- Arctic foxes being poisoned by mercury - If they live on the coast
- Climate change will affect the most common species drastically
- Fin whale research poses more questions than answers
- Puffin count starts on Farne Islands
- Late show for rare spring butterflies
- $1 million dollar plus fine and 42 months in jail for smuggling rhino horn
Sixty per cent of UK species in decline, groundbreaking study findsScientists working side-by-side from 25 wildlife organisations have compiled a stock take of our native species - the first of its kind in the UK. The report reveals that 60% of the species studied have declined over recent decades. More than one in ten of all the species assessed are under threat of disappearing from our shores altogether.
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Gray whale spotted off NamibiaOn 04 May 2013, tour boats on a dolphin cruise to Pelican Point (Namibia) saw a strange whale. Several more sightings during the following week seemed to indicate the unlikely fact that a Gray whale was visiting Walvis Bay! On Sunday 12 May a member of the Walvis Bay strandings network confirmed the reports that there was a Gray whale in the locality. This is the first known record of this species in the Southern Hemisphere. The question is now "what is the origin of this whale?"
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Cheetah family still thriving in Iran - All three cubs have reached 1 year oldA large family of Asiatic cheetahs has been photo-trapped in Miandasht Wildlife Refuge in north-eastern Iran. The group was photographed as part of ongoing intensive monitoring of the cheetahs of Miandasht Wildlife Refuge by camera trap.
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Trapping of millions of birds in Egypt threatens European bird populationsDisturbing evidence has emerged from the Mediterranean coast of Egypt: Bavarian Broadcasting have documented a total of 700 kilometres of nets set to catch birds. The birds are then offered as a delicacy in markets and restaurants across Egypt.
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The end of a (sub)species? Syrian bald ibis population reduced to just 1 birdDespite the current crisis in Syria, the Northern bald Ibis field team have continued to monitor the ibis, and have reported the sad news that only one Northern bald ibis has returned to the breeding site at Palmyra this spring.
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Thailand's Tiger Temple: Unsafe, cruel, and riddled with false marketing, claims new reportThailand's famous Tiger Temple, a popular tourist destination, is misleading tourists into believing that it is a tiger sanctuary when it is actually nothing more than a money-making petting zoo where the animals must suffer mistreatment on a daily basis, says a new report.
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Why are so many Southern right whales dying in Patagonia? At least 605 right whales have died along the Argentine coast since 2003, including 538 new-born calves. One hundred and thirteen calves died in 2012 alone. The Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program is working with scientists worldwide to determine why the whales are dying, but as yet, a common cause remains to be found.
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Armed poachers enter World Heritage 'Village of elephants'Poachers have entered one of Africa's most unique elephant habitats threatening to cause one of the biggest elephant massacres in the region since poachers killed at least 300 elephants for their ivory in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida National Park in February 2012.
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Largest pod of Scottish sperm whales for nearly 20 years A pod of 14 sperm whales was spotted off North Berwick last week; the whales were thought to be heading towards Fife. This is the largest group ever seen in the North Sea and one of the largest pods ever seen off the UK coast - according to marine research and conservation charity Sea Watch Foundation.
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Surprise - Beavers fell trees near the water's edge - A study of beavers introduced into the wild in Scotland that will cost nearly £2 million has discovered that beavers mostly effect trees near the water's edge, with 500 metres of their lodge.
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