Wildlife News Articles From September 2010

• Just 42 source sites across Asia are last hope for world’s biggest cats
• Tropics in decline as natural resources exhausted at alarming rate – WWF report
• Over a fifth of plants under threat of extinction, says Kew
• 500+ African parrots confiscated in DR Congo
• World’s largest salmon farmer joins fight to stop seal killing
• 21 Cranes released onto the Somerset Levels
• Over 1,000 different moth species in UK treetops
• Unearthing wildlife facts in the New Forest
• UK’s oldest Arctic tern discovered
• Short-tailed albatross dies on longline hook
• Oldest whimbrel defies the odds to rewrite record books
• Report Harlequin ladybird invaders
• New species of sea slug discovered in California
• Sustainable timber concessions could be key to saving orangutans
• Endangered Bank cormorant dies in Torquay Zoo
• Critically endangered Kenyan bird population crashes
• New population of one of the world’s rarest birds discovered in Colombia
• 'Butcher bird' breeds in England for the first time since 1992
• New gibbon species discovered in Indochina
• Sussex & Kent Wildlife Trusts receive major grant
• University chief renounces doctorate in protest to Trump golf course
• White stork in Dorset
• Professional hunters and vets arrested in swoop on rhino poaching syndicate in South Africa
• Rescuing the Madagascar Pochard - A short film
• New spider produces world’s largest web and strongest natural material
• Extraordinary grasshopper from Bangladesh - but what species is it?
• Another beaver released in Scotland
• Vital Colombian sanctuary grows
• Decade of garden surveys in the West reveals relationship between man and bird
• 20,000 walrus forced ashore as sea ice melts off Alaska
• First ever Mountain coati in captivity in Colombia
• One year on, still no investigation into Malta's bird-killing fields
• South East Asia’s crested gibbons facing imminent extinction
• Nosivolo becomes Madagascar's first riverine Ramsar site
• Hares can be pregnant twice, at the same time!
• Seven elephants killed by a train in Northeast India
• Last chance for Hawaiian songbird is two-million-dollar fence
• 143 marine mammals stranded in Cornwall in 2009
• 13 elephants killed by poachers in Zimbabwe – Rhino poachers arrested
• First record of unusual bat species in Somerset
• Great crested news – newts thriving in London
• Four dolphins kept in swimming pool in Egypt
• Red squirrels surveyed in Cumbria’s Whinlatter Forest for the first time
• Spoonbills targeted by hunters in Malta
• Marsh harriers breed in Cheshire for the first time
• Make Your Nature Count 2010 results
• Three "extinct" amphibians rediscovered after decades lost to science
• Welsh badgers back on danger list as government reopens badger cull debate
• Caterpillar ID
• Grainy images that are great news for rare Colombian bird
• Combined action to tackle land conflict threat in Virunga
• Cold winter killed off many Little egrets in Ireland
• Let your grass grow…and invite wildlife in
• Relief as Scotland’s seabird population stabilises
• Eight tiger skeletons amongst wildlife haul seized in Vietnam
• Scottish corncrakes under threat from EU agricultural policy.
• Growing extinction risk for Arctic wildlife
• Renewed hope for rare ibis after record count
• Wild whooping cranes fledge in Wisconsin
• Blue tit numbers in steady decline
• Bat cam: get a unique insight into lesser horseshoes
• UK’s first breeding spoonbill colony for 300 years
• Amphisbaenia ID help
• Saola caught alive in Laos, first sighting for 11 years
• Possible new species of Giant elephant-shrew discovered in Kenya
• Photo album tells story of wildlife decline
• Government reopens badger cull debate
• Enjoy a red squirrel walk
• Join the Big Nature Debate
• Serengeti highway could spell economic disaster for Tanzania
• Elephant poaching increase in Kenya coincides with Tanzania's hunting season
• 'Lizard King' wildlife trafficker jailed
• Brazil ablaze with forest fires
• Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 2009
• Python dies at it tries to swallow antelope whole
• More Endangered Zino’s petrel chicks die as restoration work gets underway.
• Poachers already killing protected species in Malta hunt
• Rare bumblebee spreads its wings
• 'Springwatch' factor hatching a new generation of wildlife enthusiasts
• Nairobi's suburban leopards
• Ten years on and 250 Millennium woods transform Britain’s landscape
• Burger King cancels contract with rainforest destroyer Sinar Mas
• Wild black rhino spotted in North Luangwa – First for 25 years
• Dolphin census reveals true state of South America’s rivers
• Leucistic Laysan albatross - Photo and video
• Increase in Cambodia's vultures gives hope to imperilled scavengers
• Basking shark count off Cornwall – 546 in 1 month
• First rhino birth in Bardia National Park since poaching halted
• Shark and rays give hope to UK’s tourist industry
• Fury at tough sentence for anti-whaling’s Tokyo Two
• Voyage to discover more about UK’s elusive deep-diving whales
• Call for action to save world's river dolphins
• Critically endangered whales flee as oil exploration destroys their peace
• Safe haven for world’s rarest macaw
• ‘Extinct’ fox rediscovered in California
• RSPB thinking big and going wild at Morecambe Bay
• Britain’s bittern population is booming
• Whale watching industry should pay whalers to stop whaling
• World’s biggest ever butterfly count reveals Britain’s top ten
• Introduced Snakehead fish cited in the disappearance of Madagascar wildlife
• Race against the clock to save critically endangered Javan rhinos
• Is organic farming good for wildlife? - It depends on the alternative...
• World’s smallest seahorse facing extinction in oil spill clean-up
• Chequered skipper butterfly boost
• Tiny, new, pea-sized frog is old world's smallest
• Live tiger cub found in check-in baggage at Bangkok airport
• White-tailed eagle spotted on Farne Islands
• The tiny marine animals that may have seen global warming before
• Show your support for the rhino warriors
• Mimic octopus - the cephalopod that can look like a fish
• Conservation charities buy slice of Peruvian rainforest
• Female whale shark found carrying more than 300 embryos
• Slavonian grebe numbers dwindling in Scotland
• Northern Ireland’s lizards under threat
• Ospreys are a Borders success story
• Devon's damselflies in distress given £5,000 boost
• Dead wood a vital habitat for garden wildlife
• China and Russia agree to work together to save the Amur tiger