Wildlife News Articles From March 2011

• Eagle ray leaps into charter boat
• $40,000 to hunt an elephant and you can import the ivory legally into UK!
• Big Garden Birdwatch results - 2011
• Brown hare invasion threatens future of Irish hare
• Butterfly fights – Who wins?
• Whale and dolphin deaths 50 times worse than admitted after Deepwater oil spill
• ‘Extinct’ Siamese crocodiles lay first eggs in Cambodia
• Caterpillars have twigged the best way to hide
• What’s going wrong for Scotland’s Capercaillies?
• Australia’s ‘Rambo’ toads head west
• Surrender your ivory to highlight illegal trade
• Stalked jellyfish survey launched in Dorset
• Lake Eyre floods for the third year in a row.
• First record of tadpoles hatching and feeding on tree bark
• Extraordinary 26 year old osprey has returned to Loch of the Lowes for 21st year
• Indian Government claims that tiger numbers are on the increase.
• Wildlife charity launches range of clothing for dolphins
• Nature Photojournalist of the Year 2011
• National Trust launches appeal to save ‘Snowdonia’s jewel in the crown’
• British firm forced to suspend oil exploration in Congo's gorilla haven
• Rescuers watch in helpless horror as speeding driver ploughs over injured deer
• Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year 2010: The winners
• Intervention the ‘best chance’ to save species endangered by climate change
• Government pesticide review released – but guess who funded most of the research…
• Huge pest eradication project to be launched on Macquarie Island
• Death of Knut the Polar bear re-opens zoo debate
• Massive new marine protected area off Costa Rican coast
• Fish and chips… but are yours served with whale slaughter on the side?
• New species of beetle named after US president
• Five whale sharks rescued from fishing nets in India
• Endangered mohua thriving in new home
• Net ban may be last hope for New Zealand’s most endangered dolphins
• Royal Mail launches WWF anniversary stamps
• Help find Britain's disappearing oil beetles
• Crossbill numbers soaring in Kielder
• Biofuels carbon con revealed
• Giant extinct rabbit remains found in Minorca
• First ospreys arrive back in the UK
• Northumberland Wildlife Trust photography competition 2011 winners
• First basking shark sighting in UK for 2011
• Plant a tree, build an ecosystem
• Rare hazel pot beetle makes its hideout in Sherwood Forest
• New UK nature film award launched by Borderlines film festival.
• Tiger parts seized during restaurant raid in Malaysia
• Tristan da Cunha penguins and other wildlife under threat as ship breaks up
• 30 Long-finned pilot whales strand off Tasmania.
• Why birds collide with man-made objects
• Russia bans winter den hunt for bears – countless cubs saved
• The return of elephants to the Busanga Plains. A sign of good things to come in the Kafue National Park
• New record: BTO rings more than a million birds in a year
• Is it a bird? Is it a hedgehog…
• Tsunami kills thousands of albatrosses on Midway Island – Galapagos has minor damage
• Businesses take the conservation initiative
• Iceland whale slaughter condemned by 11 countries
• Suspected tiger smuggler arrested in Indonesia
• Slaughter of endangered shorebirds condemned in NZ
• Bear bile and gallbladder products still legal in New York
• New Pacific humpback whale breeding grounds discovered near Hawaii
• Greenpeace force Princes and Asda to go tuna-friendly
• The Good Safari Awards 2011.
• British Wildlife Photography Awards - New categories
• Welsh plans for senseless badger slaughter
• Arctic wetland is vital breeding ground for birds
• Cats are birds’ biggest killer, US study finds
• Rare Andean cat not exclusive to the Andes
• Leopard photographed in Yemen for the first time
• The deadly chemical stockpile in Britain’s garden sheds
• 71 rhinos poached so far this year in South Africa
• 4 Golden eagles amongst raptors poisoned in Scotland in 2010
• Blackbird with yellow head spotted in Shropshire
• Have you seen a butterfly yet this year?
• Wildlife wonders at Tierra del Fuego’s end of the world
• UK is one step nearer naming new Marine Conservation Zones
• New stingray genus discovered in the Amazon
• Update on Lady Liuwa, March 2011
• Two buzzards shot in separate incidents
• Outrage as Tesco still sells live turtles
• Zombie ant fungus: four species not one
• Budget cut threat to US’s gray wolf
• Belarus takes lead in peatland restoration
• Rangers scale new heights to help love-struck osprey
• How migrating moths keep pace with speedy songbirds
• £250,000 lifeline to prevent Africa’s first recorded bird extinction
• Older great-tit mums are less successful
• Gorilla poaching in the Congo still a massive threat
• Why WWT is watching swans’ backsides
• Leucistic Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Ol Pejeta wildlife survey – Common game numbers up – Buffalo & Eland down
• Oldest known wild bird in the US hatches another chick
• Welsh Assembly relaunches badger cull
• Gloucester Wildlife Trust to vaccinate badgers against TB
• New sea bird discovered off Chile
• Second bald eagle shot in Tennessee - $8500 reward offered
• Human hormone pollution is making frogs infertile
• Great Barrier Reef suffered minor damage from Cyclone Yasi
• See wildlife caught on candid camera
• Campaign success: Indonesian palm oil company pledges to end forest destruction
• Red kites ARE safe around livestock
• Finland’s birds in the Mire
• Sharks can map out route to hunting ground 50 kilometres away
• Bald eagle death highlights US power-line threat
• Sperm whale found on Kent beach
• Monarch butterflies boost as numbers could reach 200 million this year
• Great hammerhead shark migration tracked for first time
• Slaughter of 60,000 seals begins in Canada
• Scotland sanctions cull of 1,000 seals a year
• Lions in crisis: UK and US told they must act now
• Rare Costa Rican bird tracked for the first time
• Major boost for New Zealand’s rarest waterfowl
• Large forest animals boost plant diversity
• Trinidad and Tobago set to impose turtle-hunting ban
• Borneo halts power plant plans
• Cougar subspecies declared extinct
• Hen harrier persecution leads to 20% decline
• Toads on the roads – Please be careful
• Leucistic mallards - Ohio & Edinburgh
• Owls in Kensington Gardens - A date with nature
• Herefordshire woodlands being opened up for reptiles
• The Durrell Endangered Species Management Graduate Certificate
• 2 new nature reserves created in Hertfordshire
• Orca in captivity – Why?
• New population discovered of Critically Endangered Madagascar chameleon