Wildlife News Articles From October 2010

• Welsh woodland that’s being turned into a butterfly haven
• Record year for endangered Colombian parrot
• Stolen ploughshare tortoises returned to Madagascar
• Amur tiger habitat threatened by Russia timber auctions
• Caught on camera: The continental pipefish that went to Wales
• So what DOES a zoo’s shopping list look like?
• Baby pied tamarins are Durrell’s newest arrivals
• Amazing Amazon: A new species found every three days in past decade
• New Snub-Nosed Monkey discovered in northern Myanmar
• Fox stuck with head in a watering can for several days
• More than 200 new snails of the same genus described in a single study
• Scientists discover new species 7 kilometres down in one of the world’s deepest ocean trenches
• WWF welcomes EU Commissioner’s call for big cut in Mediterranean bluefin tuna catches
• Female Cantabrian bears and their young do not hibernate
• Mink release in Donegal threatens birds
• Paraguay bird reserve being destroyed
• World’s extinction epicenters identified
• Tigers on one side, elephants on the other, but farmers of Nepal no longer trapped in ‘natural jail’
• UK’s rarest bats found in Wiltshire woodland
• Western Australia Whale shark season busiest ever
• Cornish island gulls spotted in France
• Eight suspected rhino poachers arrested in South Africa
• Nesting crisis in UK’s coastal north
• Two flocks for the price of one: RSPB using puppies to shepherd birds
• Colombian rainforest wrecked by illegal petrol ‘kitchens’
• In pictures: three new species of frog found in Colombia
• £1,000 reward: police search for rare egg collection
• Crofters put corncrake recovery back on track
• Britain’s birds enjoy a berry bonanza
• San Francisco urged to adopt bird-safe building standards
• Winners of Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year announced
• Reopened after fatality: short hiking trails in Mountain Zebra National Park
• Wildlife poisoning outlawed in Ireland
• Three new unusual frog species discovered in Tanzania
• Severn Barrage abandoned
• Caught on camera: footage of bulldozer destroying Sumatra tiger forest
• Eagle owls bringing up a brood in a pot plant!
• Otter recovery has reached every UK county – Except Kent
• First Bewick’s swans arrive at Slimbridge much earlier than usual
• Red Kites breed in Ireland for the first time in 200 years
• Pregnant Killer whale strands in Ireland
• World’s largest rat extermination only way to save endangered petrel
• Record number of birds ringed in UK
• Osprey shot illegally in Maltese bird sanctuary
• The kakariki is New Zealand’s bird of the year
• Coral bleaching in Panama as sea hots up
• Hungary could take lead on tackling mining’s toxic time bombs
• Record year for Devon’s threatened fritillaries
• Loophole that allows anyone to ‘trap and kill wild birds’ in Scotland
• Europe’s smallest marine fish found off Shetland coast
• Barn owls breed later after spring bad weather
• Vast toxic tailing ponds in Canada threaten a huge swathe of Canadian wilderness.
• Scottish first as Northern Parula spotted on Tiree and glossy ibis in Dumfries
• Humpback travels from Brazil to Madagascar – Breaks whale distance record
• Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year reveals 2010’s commended images
• Will for Wildlife Week
• Captive breeding programme launched for unique Darwin’s frogs in Chile
• New Critically Endangered carnivorous mammal discovered in Madagascar - First in 24 years
• Elephants slaughtered to feed Mugabe’s party goers
• Revealed: The UK’s 40 birds most in need of help
• Greater Mekong home to 145 new species last year alone
• Leucistic American Robin from Massachusetts
• Global police swoop traps tiger traders
• Another 'extinct' poison frog rediscovered in Colombian jungle
• Live trapping underway as Orkney stoat search intensifies
• Good year for Florida’s sea turtles
• Killer disease decimating UK frog populations
• Hungary toxic dam had been leaking for 4 months
• Search launched for one of Australia’s rarest birds – Painted Snipe
• Rare prairie dogs reintroduced to new sites in Arizona
• Sinar Mas update: Paper arm still sourcing timber from rainforest destruction
• New population of endangered parakeet found in Colombia
• Rare bat now breeding in Lincolnshire
• Poaching crackdown in New Forest
• Shocking increase in badger crime
• 1,000 tortoises a week poached in Madagascar
• Burrowing owl is cruise ship stowaway
• Fears over more toxic reservoirs as poisons reach the Danube
• Incredible array of new species found in remote Papua New Guinea
• Burmese tycoon ravaging world’s largest tiger reserve
• Antiques dealer arrested with zoo rhino horn at Manchester airport
• Leucistic penguin in the Falkland Islands
• Search for Sri Lanka’s biggest tusker is launched
• EuroBirdwatch 2010 – 2.7 million birds counted
• Eleonora’s falcons vary migration routes depending on the weather.
• England’s rarest bumblebees make a comeback in the South East
• Regional differences in UK butterfly count
• Whale snot collected by remote control helicopter
• Warwickshire woods bat survey reveals healthy population.
• Unscrupulous photographers disturbing Donna Nook seal colony
• Pharmaceutical substances found in waters of Doñana