Wildlife News Articles From July 2011

• Two tonnes of pangolin meat seized in Indonesia
• Dartford warbler disappearing from Devon
• 10 poachers arrested in Zimbabwe
• Rare sea creature and slimy surprise found in Cornwall
• Philadelphia African art dealer arrested for ivory smuggling
• Large population of Critically Endangered antelope found in threatened Kenyan forest
• 44 Pilot whales returned to the sea after mass stranding in Scotland
• 500-acre woodland to be created at Northumberland farm
• Blackcap and whitethroat numbers booming in the UK
• Tuna at serious risk of extinction
• International €4million bluefin tuna trafficking ring busted in Italy
• Extinct in wild, tiny Tanzanian toad thrives in lab
• World’s largest sheep an international traveller
• Tough year for Britain’s red grouse
• First ospreys fledge at Cors Dyfi in over 400 years
• Joanna Lumley, Ricky Gervais and Sir Roger Moore join a host of stars fighting to save the last 3,200 wild tigers on earth
• US legislation potentially disastrous for birds
• Another hunting safari operator identified as key player in rhino poaching ring
• Basking shark sightings on the rise in Cornwall
• First photograph of mysterious African purse-web spider
• Unexpectedly strong populations of seabirds on Australian off-shore islands
• Kakapo to visit Wellington
• Digital Camera’s Photographer of the Year
• Grey seals do not prevent cod recovery in the Baltic Sea
• Consultation on Britain’s new marine protected areas begins
• Kenya burns ivory mountain, but Britain still covets ivory
• Planting festival brings Australia’s Kangaroo Island back to life
• Wildlife-rich areas at risk in new planning framework
• How decline of large predators is changing the world
• Why you shouldn’t kill ants
• Good news for eagles as Scottish wind farm plans are rejected
• Greater flamingo breeding once again in Abu Dhabi wetland
• South African penguin fitted with satellite tracking device
• Grand Cayman blue iguana: back from the brink
• £288,000 lottery cash helps London estates go wild
• More than 450 Critically Endangered gibbons found in Vietnam
• Sri Lanka counts its elephants
• The British birds that can’t stand the heat
• Sei whale spotted off Scotland
• Illegal fishing – Theft and destruction
• Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
• US pondering sanctions over Icelandic whaling
• New butterfly species discovered in Ireland
• Badgers - Culling is not the cure
• Australia planning wildlife corridors
• Entire pride of desert lions wiped out by hunting and poison
• New Forest Council preventing House martins from nesting
• Little egrets breed in Hertfordshire for first time
• Emirates bird habitats under threat from development
• Baby pipistrelle bats being hand-reared by RSPCA
• Bob books launches new design service for photo books
• Critically Endangered Northern bald ibis rear two healthy young
• Wetland loss threatens wildlife and people, warn conservationists
• Hope for world’s most endangered chimp
• “Lost” amphibian stages amazing reappearing act in Borneo after eluding scientists for 87 years
• £30,000 grant to help save Dartmoor's Ring ouzels
• $2million grant to save Andes' precious forests
• New breeding population of Spoon-billed sandpipers discovered
• Large population of rare Bechstein’s bats found on proposed HS2 train route
• Rare Black Mountain Moth spotted at new sites in Scotland
• ‘Successful’ IWC meeting ends in chaos
• Search for Dotterel and Snow buntings in Scotland
• Swifts in decline – Have you seen any?
• European wildlife being devastated by trapping, poisoning and shooting
• Thriving Snow leopard population discovered in Afghanistan
• Satellite tracked cuckoo reaches Africa
• Critically endangered Amur leopards captured on video
• 12.5 million birds rely on Britain’s coasts and wetlands
• 47 baby bats removed from their roost and dumped
• Sperm whale off Devon
• WORLD FIRST: Spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in captivity
• Searching for leopards in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa
• International Whaling Commission 2011 – Make or break?
• New haven for rare high brown butterfly
• Efforts to save Devon damselfly pay off
• New wolf pack confirmed in Washington
• Scottish seabirds tracked by satellite to feeding grounds
• Billy the bruiser rules Slimbridge cranes’ roost
• Rare Forester moth thriving near Middlesbrough
• Polar bears’ ancestor was an Irish brown bear
• ‘Barcoding blitz’ on Australia’s butterflies
• £420,000 lottery boost for Hertfordshire woodland restoration project
• Scarlet rosefinch on the Isle of May
• Last chance to protest against badger cull
• Maltese hunters jailed for killing white storks
• Welsh osprey chicks to be satellite tracked
• Serengeti Highway - Confusion over the decision
• Osprey update July 2011
• Two ospreys ready to fledge at Wigtown Bay
• Second osprey pair breed successfully at Kielder Water
• New butterfly reserve in East Sussex to conserve Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
• ExxonMobil leaks oil into Yellowstone River
• We call it the ‘Blue Planet’, but only 1.3 per cent of our oceans are protected — and so far, mainly just on paper
• US court upholds Endangered Species Act protection for Polar bears
• Kruger rhino massacre continues
• Major new survey to map Ireland’s mammals
• Killer whales hunting off Fair Isle
• Rays absent from Scottish shark survey
• British ladybirds in decline – Harlequin moving in
• Saving Tasmanian devils from deadly contagious cancer
• Thailand’s booming illegal exotic pet trade is trashing Madagascar's wildlife
• Rescued elephant calf finds new wild family