Wildlife News Articles From April 2011

• Record numbers of rare fritillaries in Devon
• Herds of Dama and Dorca gazelles spotted in Chad
• Unusual sighting of a Hog badger in India
• Top ten tips for eco-tourists
• World's biggest bird on verge of extinction
• Have you seen house martins come home?
• Leucistic sparrow on Lindisfarne
• Hunt for Scotland’s top nature photographers is on
• Final refuge for Galapagos's mockingbird
• Iceland and Japan launch spring whale hunts
• Sparrowhawk's raid is more smash than grab
• Smuggled cheetahs released into the wild
• Crane eggs shipped from Germany to Slimbridge
• Great tit sets up home in ash tray
• The Chernobyl legacy: Plumage colour the key to bird survival
• 22% increase in Nepalese rhino population
• Second pair of ospreys breeding in Wales
• Scampi stuffed with plastic
• Truck loads of illegal rosewood logs confiscated in Madagascar
• Unusual wildlife sighting in Iran
• South Africa sends in the army to stop rhino poaching in the Kruger
• Bee-Roads project is on the right track, but Britain’s grasslands are still in crisis
• Laos’ massive dam project on hold
• EU puts an end to the ransacking of Indonesia’s rainforests
• UK launches ivory surrender
• Tammar wallaby numbers double in South Australia
• The mother duck with 27 hungry mouths to feed
• Cheetah Conservation Fund holiday camps for children
• Wealth of marine life revealed by glacier calving
• Asia’s biggest ever illegal ivory haul
• Record year for Oxford’s snake’s-head fritillaries
• Water voles making a comeback… in North West England at least
• Call for bird-friendly lighting on oil platforms
• Gorillas hold their own in war-torn Congo
• New law makes Illinois's buildings safer for birds
• Plenty more fish in the sea? Not in the Med
• Octopus and squid susceptible to noise trauma
• How humans may be destroying island life
• Conservationists keep hare loss at bay
• Why bison could save Europe's butterflies
• Three orphaned fox cubs rescued from den
• Lead bullets poisoning America’s endangered condor
• Fine weather brings desert dragonflies to Britain
• ‘Extinct’ South Island kokako photographed – Or was it?
• How to stop rhino poaching - Poison rhino horns
• Badger vaccination to tackle TB problem
• UK government pledges £25 million to conservation
• Judge orders National grid to stop spraying pesticide on insect rich habitat
• Coral reefs in crisis - But they have vast potential
• Killer white-nose syndrome reaches Kentucky bats
• New hope for Vietnam’s endangered saola with new reserve
• Satellite tracking pronghorn
• African lions probably 2 distinct species
• Grizedale Forest’s red kite chicks survive their first winter
• World’s most productive fishery threatened by Mekong Dams
• More power from smaller dams could save the Mekong
• Calling all photographers
• Amur tigers to be released in Kazakhstan
• One of the world’s most renowned conservationists has died
• 'Naked' penguins baffle experts
• Giant surprise for rockpoolers in Cornwall
• Brutal attack on rhino shocks even the hardiest rangers
• Giant Mekong catfish survival threatened by new dams
• Osprey update 2011
• Toad task force hunts down killer fungus
• White-rumped vulture flock sighted in Assam
• Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s an upside-down rhino!
• Leucistic coot
• Fluff, hair and old wool make for perfect nest building
• Little crake and Bearded tits at WWT Arundel
• David Mayer launches new Lion bronze in aid of Lion conservation
• Endangered wallabies go back to the wild
• Golden plover in the Begwns - Radnorshire
• Illegal shooting threatens Australia’s black cockatoos
• Tortoise the size of a grape
• Farmers spreading TB – Fraud investigation launched
• Cheetah tracking and guided walks open in Mountain Zebra National Park
• Gangetic dolphin killed
• Tuhua welcomes first baby orange-fronted parakeet
• Scientists devise new measure for species extinction threat
• First record of Vietnamese box turtles in the wild
• Human virus linked to mountain gorilla deaths
• Chimps released into Guinea Forest have formed a breeding group
• Brilliant bluethroat back at Welney
• Dramatic video shows bird strike at wind turbine
• New Zealand’s new game council undermines conservation efforts
• Oil platform must be halted to save critically endangered whale
• Dolphins rescued from filthy swimming pool
• NASA imagery reveals massive drought damage to Amazon rainforest
• £300,000 to help save England’s Hen Harriers
• Put those hedge trimmers down!
• How the cane toad invasion is advancing the theory of evolution
• Tanzania pressing ahead with Serengeti Highway and Lake Natron soda plant
• Army lands to be planted with thousands of trees
• 900,000 hectares declared a 'Wilderness Protection Area' in South Australia
• Support for Scottish snaring ban
• 150 Olive Ridley turtles killed in a single fishing net
• The Sri Lankan elephants that got away
• New toad discovered in Vietnam
• Fairy-wrens: accountants of the animal kingdom
• Just 125 Tuamotu kingfishers left in the world
• New population of gorillas discovered in Cameroon
• Dolphin populations kept apart by ocean currents
• St Helena reforestation wins conservation award
• Black melanistic adder in Kent
• Hampshire wildlife photography competition
• Hunt for the Spoon-billed sandpiper – Help save this Critically Endangered bird
• New species of marine snail found off Florida
• Evolution of Cross River gorillas driven by climate change
• Trafalgar Square to be transformed into wildlife haven
• Flamingos sighted in Scotland