Wildlife News Articles From May 2011

• Shoot manager convicted after biggest-ever haul of lethal illegal poison found on prestigious estate
• Historic conviction of gamekeeper for possession of a dead red kite
• Stinging nettles: why every garden should have some
• Wildlife Extra to spend a week at Durrell
• South Georgia has richer biodiversity than Galapagos, scientists discover
• New species of bat found on St. Vincent Island
• Rainforest destruction up by 500 per cent…and now Brazil relaxes protection laws
• Arrested: airline passenger with a ‘virtual zoo’ in his luggage
• Extinction rates have been overestimated, scientist claims
• Can you help rescue the wildlife rescuers?
• Dormouse spotted in Lancashire – the first for 25 years
• Critically endangered bats under threat as New Zealand power plant gets green light
• Chris Packham joins the cast at WildlifeXpo
• Nightingale numbers have more than halved
• Largest ever attempt to remove mink from Scotland is underway
• Africa’s sea turtles need passports for protection
• Restaurant raids reveal wildlife crime is still rampant in Vietnam
• America’s endangered pygmy rabbits go wild
• IBA and proposed World Heritage Site in Egypt threatened by tourist development
• Two hundredth species recorded at Noss National Nature Reserve
• BTO Membership offer
• New giant wind turbines – A Major threat to wildlife?
• 3 poachers killed on the Kruger
• New project to track Europe’s seabirds out to sea
• Skokholm open for overnight stays
• Endangered Greater stick-nest rats released into Australian mainland sanctuary
• Can tourism help save Russia's remarkable antelope?
• Female gorilla dies after fights with family
• Thousands of rare marsh fritillary caterpillars released in Lake District
• Landmark ruling over use of lead shot to kill wildfowl
• Young Bird Island penguins ferried to safety
• New study offers hope for species thought ‘too rare to save'
• Cats pass disease to wildlife, even in remote areas
• Post mortem on stranded pilot whale underway
• Keeping islands rat-free for pacific birds and people – with Elenoa Seniloli
• Join Gordon Buchanan whale watching in July
• 100 pilot whales in danger of stranding in Scotland.
• Baby tamarin born by C-section in Jersey
• Caught on camera: Kingfisher and his whole royal family
• New species found as Bali’s reef recovery gets underway
• Spectacular rat rediscovered after 113 Years – First photos
• Gorillas get cheaper
• Rutland osprey missing - feared shot
• Humpback whale tangled in fishing gear off Western Australia
• Safari Awards Winners 2011.
• UK Wildlife Photography Competition 2011 launched
• Rare snail, thought to be extinct in the UK, found in Chichester
• Osprey update May 2011
• 8 lions poisoned in Kenya - Leakey speaks out
• Mystery illness killing Olive Ridley turtles in Guatemala
• How fungus turns ants into zombies
• Hundreds of stranded wallabies rescued
• Indian vultures turn the corner after Diclofenac ban
• Blue penguins starving due to La Nina
• Insects with three pairs of wings found for the first time
• £1.3million of ivory seized in Kenya
• New species of blind and legless lizard found in Cambodia
• Illegal bear bile trade rampant in Asia
• Two major milestones of African bird images and sound recordings
• Libya to allow illegal bluefin fishing
• Census finds unexplained fall in Black-faced Spoonbill numbers
• Rhino poaching epidemic reaches new levels
• Second wave of mystery pelican deaths in US
• Two-metre leatherback turtle washes up in Western Australia
• Can you help find out more about killer frog disease?
• Somerset’s Avalon Marshes bittern population booming
• 2 white rhino killed on the Masai Mara - 3rd moved to safety
• First osprey chick of 2011 - Glaslyn
• Wildlife Extra reaches new milestone with 130,000 readers in 1 month.
• Rhino poaching – What can be done. An interview with Mark Jones of Care for the Wild International
• Iceland suspends Fin whaling due to lack of sales
• Pine Marten rediscovered in Cumbria after 10 years!
• White buffalo calves on South African reserve
• The most brutal poaching incident has orphaned another rhino calf in South Africa.
• RSPB denounces Scottish landowners call for raptor cull
• Mountains, roads and railways: a natural barrier to survival for Mongolia’s wild asses
• Can you help count the London’s kestrels?
• Tiger hotspot threatened by pulp industry
• European policy to halt wildlife loss: All smiles and no teeth!
• David Shepherd launches tiger campaign
• Critically Endangered Restinga Antwren gets own reserve
• Illegal Malta hunting getting worse
• Toad with five feet found in London garden
• Migrating geese to guide wind farm plans
• California condor chick hatches in wild
• 23% of Bewick’s swans have been shot
• Twite populations threatened by wildfires
• Scotland's first marine reserve already producing benefits
• How grazing cattle can benefit wildlife
• Baby elephant rescued from ravine in India
• Massive whale washed up in New Zealand
• Sharks' ‘DNA postcodes’ will help the fight against shark finning
• Red kite's Big Garden comeback
• Guillemots lay eggs early at Scottish Nature Reserve
• Motorists warned of deer risk on roads
• Family of girl bitten by adder speaks up for snakes
• Adder health check as numbers plummet
• Major new nature reserve opens in Lancashire
• Springwatch moves to Wales for 2011
• 11 Kakapo chicks hatched in 2011 season
• Beautiful Demoiselle damselfly
• Another new butterfly discovered in Natural History Museum collection
• 30 elephants poached in just four days in Chad
• Cornwall - Scilly wildlife watching cruises
• Black kite in Gloucestershire
• New sightings claimed for Ivory-Billed woodpecker
• Good Safari Awards 2011