Wildlife News Articles From February 2011

• Spoonbills flocks greeted with gunfire in Malta
• Second whooping crane found dead in Alabama - $23,000 reward
• Critically endangered Javan rhinos and calves captured on video
• Europe’s largest wetland conservation project on Anglesey uses hovercraft tractor
• 5 'extinct' frogs rediscovered in India
• New bird discovered in Madagascar
• BTO Garden BirdWatch 2010: The results
• Porpoise rescued from Glasgow weir
• Scotland appoints specialist wildlife crime prosecutors
• Indonesia cracks down on illegal cyber trade in wildlife
• RSPB free bird-survey scheme expands
• Rampant elephant poaching leaves a bloody stain in Congo Basin
• Storm-chasing weather radar tracks bat populations
• Swan dismembered in Scotland
• 25 years on: birds in Chernobyl have smaller brains
• Drilling for gas in the Med will threaten marine life, says WWF
• Ivory dealers kidnap investigator
• Woodland Trust campaign continues - Now let's save our ancient forests!
• Canada launches challenge against EU seal product ban
• Marlin and wahoo to be tagged in Galapagos
• Hen harrier report focuses on illegal persecution
• Powdered rhino horn now as valuable as street cocaine
• See large blue butterflies this summer
• Endangered giraffes take daring barge trip home after 40 years
• Buzzard poisoned in Fife
• All-but-extinct northern white rhino are mating
• A first for Cambodia’s Asian elephants caught mating on film
• Mystery behind decline in UK’s waders
• Call to reintroduce Florida panther to Georgia
• Find a wood near you - New website launched listing 14,000 woods in the UK to visit
• Japanese whaling fleet abandons whaling grounds
• One of the world’s last untouched forests, Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, to be mined
• White-nose Syndrome spreads to North Carolina
• Last refuges of England’s rarest species revealed
• Danube wetlands threatened by tourism development
• Snared elephants rescued: thanks to tranquilliser donation
• Amboseli lions poisoned and mutilated in Tanzania
• ‘Rescued’ critically endangered whale is found dead
• Whooping cranes come back to Louisiana after 60 years
• Farming funds can transform corn bunting fortunes
• The very worst kind of conservation
• RSPB calls for creation of a British ‘Forestry and Wildlife Service’
• Sociable lapwing flock spotted in Oman
• Gulf oil spill thought to have killed some 60,000 birds
• More than 1200 Birds of prey for sale in Kuwaiti market include vultures, eagles, harriers and Peregrine falcons.
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• DNA tests to establish blood lines of Kielder's goshawks
• Great Backyard Bird Count - USA
• Roses in UK supermarkets destroying Kenya’s Lake Naivasha
• Ocelot in Arizona
• Another Whooping crane shot dead - In Alabama
• 5 critically endangered Indus River dolphins found dead in Pakistan
• National Nest Box Week 2011
• WDCS needs your help to end Icelandic whaling
• 100 Killer whales off Ireland and Scotland
• 3000 farmers targeting crop raiding monkeys in Himachal Pradesh
• Unregulated seal shooting now outlawed in Scotland
• Spate of ill birds prompts disinfectant give-away
• Five orphaned elephant calves go back to the wild in Manas, India
• Sunbathing – how large mammals survive winter in the mountains
• Creating a safe haven for salmon, birds and water voles in North of Scotland
• Surprising number of Sea slugs off Wales
• Bat disease still spreading across USA; More action needed
• 44 lions starving on Zimbabwean farm
• Ruddy Turnstone makes huge and unusual migration
• Leucistic greylag goose in Gosport
• Orangutan genome reveals mine of information
• National Trust and RSPB join forces to manage land together for the first time
• Huge New Zealand dam will threaten endangered species
• Record breeding year for Endangered Blue duck
• National Trust rallies nation for joint action to save forests
• RSPB’s biggest ever Garden Birdwatch? - Still time to submit results
• Call to ban US’s rattlesnake round-ups
• More osprey homes being built in Kielder Park
• Greenpeace urges reopening of whale-meat embezzlement investigation
• Do Antarctic Minke whales migrate to Northern Hemisphere?
• British Wildlife Photography Awards - Open for entries
• Rare vagrant emperor dragonfly found in Pembrokeshire
• 300,000 songbirds killed annually in Sardinia - Anti poaching camps stepped up