Wildlife News Articles From January 2011

• Cryptic new wolf species identified in north Africa
• UK landscapes could be at risk of another major tree epidemic, say researchers
• Hawksbill turtle tracking results from Middle East
• First tiger translocation in Nepal
• Surprise as lampreys discovered in London River
• Turning old quarries into wildlife havens
• Year of the Rabbit – but are species hopping from view?
• New species registered using groundbreaking DNA-based description
• Little egret makes 2,000km journey to escape harsh Irish winter
• 7 rhinos killed by poachers in Zimbabwe
• Another Ranger killed by rebels in Virunga National Park
• Donald Trump backs down over Compulsory purchase
• Rat poison dropped on Galapagos Islands to clear rodents
• World Bank announces support for Serengeti bypass.
• Harpy eagles breeding in Belize for the first time for 50 years
• Northern Mariana Islands have banned all trade in shark fins
• Search for Critically Endangered Starling unsuccessful
• Sociable lapwing located in Sudan after migration through Russia, Georgia and Turkey
• Endangered takahe reintroduced into New Zealand’s capital
• Japanese whaling factory ship found by Sea Shepherd
• Serengeti highway will cut wildebeest herds by a minimum of 35%
• RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2011: Take part in world’s largest garden survey
• Controversial Swedish wolf cull goes ahead
• Asia’s tiger numbers could triple if landscapes are protected
• 242 Green turtles rescued from America's cold seas
• Lonesome George gets two new female companions
• New species of giant crayfish found in US
• Five arrested in Gabon with huge haul of chimp and gorilla parts
• Translocated rhino killed on the Serengeti
• 8 killed in attack on Virunga rangers
• The world’s rarest birds caught on camera
• New subspecies of Clouded leopard recognised from Sumatra
• RSPB and Bupa bring wildlife to care homes
• ‘Boris Island’ remains utterly absurd, says RSPB
• Three-week-old seal pups survive 350-mile swim
• Ever increasing threats to Spain’s Donana National Park
• Rally called to save Lakeland’s forests
• Relocated tiger thriving in Manas NP
• America’s massive six-state restoration project underway
• Blond fur seal in South Georgia
• Sarus crane reserve finally created in Cambodia
• Join an expedition to search for the Spoonbilled sandpiper.
• New African water beetle discovered by Herefordshire naturalist
• Aerial survey of northern Botswana -Results
• Why is Herefordshire ignored by national conservation bodies? RSPB, we need you.
• Public say no to forest sell-off
• £1.8million boost for UK’s great bustard project
• Oil giant plans new platform near critically endangered whale’s feeding ground
• New Year arrivals: Rare kiwi chicks spotted in New Zealand sanctuary
• Great news for Somerset flood plains
• 1,000 woods and 13 million trees - Woodland Trust still going strong
• Barn owl population devastated by icy weather
• Tasmanian Devils released into Devil ark
• Elephant killed by mahout at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
• Fork tailed flycatcher in the Falkland Islands
• Endangered whooping cranes were shot
• Major new wildlife exhibition launched in London
• New hope for migratory grassland birds of South America
• Iraq’s Marshes recovering, but now under threat again.
• Largest national insect study reveals major changes to UK moths
• Herefordshire and Wye Valley garden birds: spectacular winter results
• Wildlife must be winners from Thames Tunnel says charity
• Sudan: building a nation, saving wildlife
• Six lost species of frogs rediscovered in Haiti
• Seven Fijian Islands declared “rat free”
• Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 launches
• Endangered Gray wolf trekked 3000 miles to be poisoned
• Scientists reveal world’s most endangered corals
• Leucistic lesser sand plover in India
• Bread maker launches scheme to support wildlife
• Legendary male Kakapo dies of old age
• Winter sports threaten indigenous mountain birds
• Human activity responsible for billions of bird deaths annually
• Ginger’s key role in conserving stag beetles
• Mutilated shark found off Delaware - Fins hacked off
• African elephants are TWO distinct species
• Rodents invade ‘rat-free’ Ulva Island
• Government call for peat phase-out welcomed by Wildlife Trusts
• Northumberland Wildlife Trust photography competition
• Panthers still dying on Florida’s roads
• New species of lizard discovered… on a restaurant menu
• Protests over government sell-off of major UK forests - Grizedale, Whinlatter and Ennerdale
• Good year for Britain’s butterflies…
• Just what left these marks in the snow?
• Leucistic opossum in Illinois
• Rhino poaching in South Africa reaches all-time high
• New tented camp opens in Nairobi National Park
• Donna Nook seals thriving in the harsh winter
• Investigation launched into Endangered whooping crane deaths
• New species of ‘vampire’ flying frog discovered in Vietnam
• Leucistic Mynah bird in Hawaii
• Otter cub saved by dog walkers in Scotland
• Saharan cheetah update from Termit Mountains in Niger
• Porpoise strands on Saltwick Bay, North Yorkshire.
• Cyprus’s bird trappers in winter killing spree
• 1,000 blackbirds plummet from sky on New Year’s Eve
• Mariana crow to become extinct in 75 years
• Wind power plans threaten iconic American birds
• Endangered Atlantic right whale rescued from tangled fishing gear
• Scotland’s red kites struggle as illegal killing continues
• Renewed hope for English pine martens
• Moorland project combats harrier decline
• Kittiwake breeding success linked to their trans-Atlantic travels
• 25 Blue whales sighted off Sri Lanka
• Atlantic Leatherback turtle migration routes revealed
• WWF condemns oil exploration plans inside Africa’s iconic nature park
• Twelve flamingos tagged at Abu Dhabi’s Al Wathba Wetland Reserve
• Indian rhinos successfully moved to new habitat in Manas NP
• New Caddisfly species to the UK discovered
• 32 Lemurs killed by poacher in Madagascar
• China’s rarest bird found wintering in Indonesia – Chinese Crested tern
• Bittern rescued from North London road
• Sea Shepherd fleet locates and confronts Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean