Wildlife News Articles From August 2010

• David Mayer launches new bronze sculpture
• The real reason the woolly mammoth died out
• America bans bird-killing insecticide
• Why racecourses are good for the Lake District’s wildlife
• Southern Damselfly boost in Devon
• Marsh Fritillary boost in South Wales
• Catastrophic forest fire delivers huge blow to Europe’s rarest seabird
• NZ minister turns down marine reserve creation
• Illegal hunting threatens Vietnam’s wild porcupines
• Rare nocturnal nightjar has been found in a Derbyshire wood
• Rothschild's giraffe threatened by extinction
• The snail that’s remained hidden for 100 years
• Call to protect English hedgerows
• Upper class hyena have more offspring
• Soft-hearted silverback is the perfect uncle
• Deadly bat fungus already in Europe
• Bat search in Yorkshire woods
• British kids clueless when it comes to nature – the shocking results of TV survey
• Polar bears and glaucous gulls most at risk from pollution
• Massive coral mortality following bleaching in Indonesia
• Galapagos off danger list but still at risk
• Biofuel threat to Kenyan birdlife
• Breaking boundaries: delight as Addo fence comes down
• New bird reserve will protect Colombia’s rare parrots
• Red kite joins Scottish ‘staycation’ trend
• New documentary released to highlight the plight of the Vaquita
• Ray of hope for rhinos in Zimbabwe – But situation worse in South Africa
• Serengeti highway protests growing worldwide
• Extraordinary mutation of Thompson's gazelle - or fake?
• Huge haul of ivory and rhino tusks seized at Nairobi airport.
• Harbour porpoise and Bottlenose dolphin most common sightings in UK Whale and Dolphin Watch
• Garden birds under threat as deadly parasite disease jumps species barrier
• Rare butterfly makes Worcestershire comeback
• Leucistic Blue jay from Oklahoma City
• Unique toads make first step on road to reintroduction in Tanzania
• Jarhead: Little bear beats the odds
• Churchill’s many talents - War leader, Nobel laureate… butterfly enthusiast
• Hungry polar bears a threat to conservation success story
• Endangered Cape Mountain zebra killed by poacher in Addo
• Scotland’s white-tailed sea eagles spread their wings
• Baby pictures: new arrival for largest gorilla family in Congo
• Red-billed oxpeckers to make Mountain Zebra park their home
• Dolphins at risk as Moray Firth seismic surveys get the go-ahead
• Sand martins’ ingenious concrete ‘burrow’
• 2.5 years in jail for smuggling peregrine eggs
• Record highs and lows for UK waterbirds
• UK bat survey – Join in
• Strange orange-headed birds seen in Ireland
• Leading conservationist killed by a buffalo in Zimbabwe
• Don’t cut off birds’ food supply with the garden shears, warns RSPB
• New species of monkey discovered in Amazon – Just 250 left
• Festival of Wildlife 2011. Baja California, Mexico.
• First wild beavers born in Scotland for 400+ years
• 3 sites in India recommended for the reintroduction of cheetah
• Norway’s sea eagle chicks ready for release in Ireland
• Frogs turn Palawan Paradigm on its head
• If they can’t stand the heat… will butterflies simply head north?
• Wild-born black footed ferrets seen in Canada for first time in 70 years
• Efforts to save world’s rarest marsupial are paying off
• David Mayer launches new bronze sculpture
• Thirteen Vietnamese turtle poachers convicted
• Mass die-offs set to be a gruesome feature of global warming
• WWT Slimbridge waves goodbye to cranes destined for wild
• Global goodbyes for ‘Lady’ – the UK’s most famed osprey
• Ocean species distribution governed by temperature.
• World Heritage Site shame for UK territories
• 4 dugong killed by illegal fishermen in Queensland
• Rare Bechsteins’s bats found in Worcestershire woodlands
• Falklands wolf mystery
• Call for total ban on lead hunting ammo in US
• Leucistic starling in East End of London
• New species of fresh water turtle discovered in the USA
• Wildlife crime results in £10,000 fine for coal mining company
• Rhino rescue: calf reunited with mother
• Hope for Russia’s tiger as pine protection measures brought in
• Two colonies of world’s oldest living species found in Scotland
• Devon Sperm whale seen again, possibly with a calf
• Greenpeace camera catches firm destroying Indonesia’s rainforest
• Puffin thugs attacking chicks underground
• First sighting of purple heron chicks confirm UK wildlife first
• Sniffer dogs searching for hedgehogs on the Hebrides
• Pearl-bordered fritillary thriving against the odds on Isle of Wight
• Farmland bird populations in sharp decline, official figures show
• Breeding bonanza among wading birds as conservation work pays off
• Unusual whale species recorded off the UK
• Aerial game census of the wetlands of the Caprivi Strip
• Leucistic Egyptian goose in Oxfordshire
• Rare spider rediscovered in Essex
• Marine wildlife survey begins in Scotland’s Ullapool Approaches
• Albino jackdaw seen at Avebury