Wildlife News Articles From November 2010

• Yellow-nosed moorhen at WWT in London
• Two villagers and a tiger killed in India in human/tiger conflict
• Elephant ultrasound
• White opossum in Michigan
• Endangered butterfly does well on Warton Crag
• Beak abnormalities ten times expected rate in Alaska
• Review of EU shark-finning ban brings chance to close loopholes
• Paw prints and faeces offer new hope for saving tigers
• Kokako nests in Auckland after 80 year absence
• Rare crickets stop play
• Be careful when cutting trees down – Bats hibernate in hollow trees in winter.
• 20 Feral beavers to be trapped in Scotland
• New Transboundary National Park to be created by Liberia & Sierra Leone
• Leucistic barred owl in Missouri
• Eagle Owls – Invasive pests or welcome colonisers?
• BirdWatch Ireland’s Garden Bird Survey begins on 29th November
• Norfolk’s biodiversity hotspot revealed
• Report blames both captains for sinking of the Ady Gil in the Antarctic
• Record number of whales slaughtered in the Faroe Islands
• Survey of 20 years of Cetacean strandings around Britain
• 3 Ospreys shot in UK
• Shocking images: possums and stoats eat kea chicks
• Hen harrier’s future in England hangs in the balance
• Twenty per cent of British birds have seen numbers halved in 40 years
• New bird species recognised in Australia – Critically endangered
• New $350 million plan to save the tiger – But will it work?
• Cold weather forecast – Make sure your garden birds are well fed
• First cold water coral ecosystem discovered off coast of Mauritania
• New Environmental group launched by the man expelled from Sea Shepherd
• Mystery of Sociable lapwing migration route solved.
• Hibernating butterflies in your house?
• New competition launched for films about Britain’s natural world
• London wildlife centre wins tourism gold medal
• New species of large squid found
• How hill farming is saving the hen harrier
• Species ID challenged by DNA analysis
• Leucistic Adelie penguin on Avian Island
• Echidnas now ranked as most endangered animals
• Shocking images of the availability of illegal wildlife products in Myanmar
• Russia introduces ban on Korean Pine logging to save tigers
• Amur tiger numbers on the up
• Lions released in Karoo National Park after 170 year absence
• Still time to get in the frame for Scottish Photography Competition
• Mediterranean’s great white sharks ‘got lost’ on way from Australia
• Second tiger killed by poachers as global tiger summit launches
• Found – The spider that was feared extinct in the UK
• Chad’s Dama gazelles surveyed
• New species of bat in Ecuador – but it may already be extinct
• Blue-fin tuna fishing riddled with rule flouting
• RSPB’s award-winning seabird centre creating jobs in Northern Ireland
• Badger cull plans are inhumane and unscientific, says RSPCA
• Haiti on brink of mass extinctions
• Great season for cetacean sightings in Isles of Scilly
• The waxwings are coming
• Gamekeeper on Scottish estate convicted of placing poison bait
• Extinct Tasmanian tiger caught on video?
• Amur tiger killed by poachers
• Mass stranding of 33 long-finned pilot whales in Ireland
• Kenyan high court reinstates national park status to Amboseli
• New sighting and photo of 'mutant' gazelle in the Masai Mara
• Rare bat and other species found in forest fragment on oil palm plantation
• Niger’s addax hit by drought & oil
• Help plant one million trees and make Harapan Rainforest green again.
• Toothfish pirates plundering vulnerable stocks
• New species of carnivorous plant discovered in Cambodia
• Constrictor's an immaculate conceptor. No male is no problem for female boa
• Coral near Deep Water Horizon well is dead or dying
• Three more suspected rhino poachers arrested in South Africa
• Illegal lead shot still widespread in UK wetlands
• Three suspected poachers killed in Kenya
• Whales get sunburn too…
• Attempt to smuggle marine iguanas is foiled
• Deadly litter killing more and more wildlife
• Illegal Blue-fin tuna fishing and rule breaking threaten tuna survival
• Parts from 1,000+ tigers seized in a decade
• Red kites spreading out from Cumbria
• Bid to save Borneo’s rhinos
• Stone curlews finally spread their wings… and head for Wiltshire
• Capercaillie makes a comeback in Scottish forests
• High-tech bid to stop barn owl road carnage
• Quarries make great bird habitat
• Great crane reintroduction update – One crane missing, others flocking
• Variable damselfly first for Worcestershire
• Asia’s waterbirds still in steep decline – Europe and North America recovering
• Leucistic mallard duck.
• Elephant smugglers arrested in India
• Great time to see starling 'swarms'
• Celebrity wildlife doodles up for auction this Christmas
• Huge amber deposit discovered in India
• Russia’s logging rights auction derailed after public outcry
• World’s 10,000 most important bird areas mapped out
• European Union seal ban takes effect
• RSPB in Northern Ireland tormented by mindless vandals
• New Sociable lapwing staging post discovered
• Tropical frog battles to survive as climate change takes its toll
• Swedish wind farms make way for nation’s golden eagles
• Sea eagle numbers reach new levels in Scotland
• Sea Shepherd unveils new vessel to target illegal whaling
• Return of giant tortoises to Galapagos's Pinta Island
• Horrific scale of pangolin trade revealed
• Atlantic’s loggerhead turtles threatened by egg infection
• Black magic behind India’s illegal owl trade
• More than 60 endangered bats found in one small box
• 700 seals killed by New Zealand trawlers in 1 year
• Scotland to make employers responsible for employees’ illegal poisonings
• World’s rarest snake, The Antiguan Racer, saved from extinction
• Geese flocking to Scotland in record numbers
• New biodiversity deal at Nagoya
• Final deal to save life on earth – Is it enough?
• 20% of world’s species are threatened
• Invasive Species and Climate Change form a ‘deadly duo’, warn top scientists
• Time to feed your gardens birds – But not bread
• Conservationists welcome Chagos fishing ban in world’s largest no-take marine protected area
• Will 2010 be a Waxwing year in UK?
• Red kites boost for Scottish business
• National Trust launches inquiry into whether Britons are losing touch with the outdoors
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• Bird camp in Sardinia to prevent thousands of birds being caught