Wildlife News Articles From December 2010

• Farmland wildlife & photography
• Leaked US memo discloses that pesticide may be responsible for bee decline
• Red kites collecting odds and ends for their nests
• Thousands of New Zealand seabirds starving in La Nina conditions
• Does the ivory-bill still exist?
• Guatemala rainforest in trouble – Help save this remnant
• Young manatee rescued from cold Florida waters
• Barn owls starving to death in the freeze
• Elephant calf reunited with mother after ditch rescue
• Huge African tortoise found in Arizona Desert
• Penguin chicks released after rescue in South Africa
• Electricity pylons - A threat to birds that can be avoided
• DEFRA helping with the fight against wildlife crime in India
• 60-70% drop in vulture numbers in Kenya
• Orphaned Congo Clawless Otter is an ambassador for conservation in the Congo
• Mersey barrage plan barracked
• Kakariki fledge in Wellington for the first time in a century
• Sniffer dogs catch ivory smugglers in Nairobi
• Wildlife bridges and tunnels reducing wildlife death toll on the roads
• Clampdown on wildlife smuggling in Central Africa
• New species of lemur discovered in Madagascar
• Key tiger habitat in Sumatra being clear felled by huge paper company
• Wild dogs photographed on the Masai Mara
• Rampant logging, illegal collection and slash and burn agriculture driving Madagascar’s rare frogs towards extinction
• Galapagos penguin and flightless cormorants survey
• New tented camp opens in Addo Elephant National Park
• Gharial discovery update – Second study finds more
• Cornwall Wildlife Trust pioneering ‘pingers’ to keep dolphins & porpoises away from fishing nets
• Endangered short-tailed albatross nests in U.S. for first time
• Spate of Fin whale sightings off Irish Coast
• Rare Bird Protected by Groundbreaking Land Deal in Peru
• Danube wildlife threatened by EU plans to improve navigation
• International whale watching conference to be held in Japan
• Scotland’s farmers praised for supporting wildlife this winter
• Pearl bordered fritillary colonies found in the Scottish Highlands
• Spectacular starlings fill the winter skies
• More sightings of Sierra red fox in northern California after 20 year absence
• Red Kites in Yorkshire – Growth despite poisoning
• Critically endangered whale tagged for first time
• Mountain gorilla population on the rise
• New population of Critically Endangered Gharials found on the Ganges
• Record numbers of whooper swans at WWT Martin Mere
• World’s rarest and strangest fly rediscovered in Kenya
• Wildfowl shooting banned in Northern Ireland in big freeze
• Bananas prove popular with hungry birds
• Kokako chicks in Auckland Ark for first time in 80 years
• Record-breaking numbers of pink-footed geese on Solway Firth
• Golden eagle poisoned in Ireland
• Sumatra Tiger population may be the second largest in the world
• Camera traps catch Cotswold Water Park nocturnal mammals
• 23 rare New Zealand fur seals clubbed to death at Kaikoura
• Swallow now a regular at nearly all West Country farms
• Why managing nature reserves can easily go wrong
• Budget-tightening threat to stone curlew’s resurgence
• Missing piece of Lincolnshire Fen purchased
• Twin gorillas born in Congo
• One of the world's rarest birds, Long-whiskered owlet, seen several times in Ecuador.
• One fifth of vertebrates face extinction – But conservation does work
• Two tuskers killed in Sri Lankan centre of human / elephant conflict
• Leucistic Dunnock
• Lynx to be relocated in bid to save the Polish lynx
• Badger vaccine partial success – But culling still recommended
• Birds really do need some help in this weather
• Feral cats kill 480 million birds in US every year - Responsible for 33 extinctions
• Red deer released onto Surrey heathland to restore ecosystems
• Elephant calf rescued after falling headlong into ditch
• Cat baiting may save Australia’s rarest parrot