Wildlife News Articles From August 2011

• Huge new wasp discovered in Sulawesi
• 3 more Californian condors released in Arizona in September
• Chinese in Africa told: ‘Don’t buy ivory’
• Africa’s forest elephants are running out of space
• Rare sand lizards released back to the wild on Merseyside
• More than 1000 ivory tusks seized in Tanzania
• Scientists discover new species of monkey in Amazon
• Rare moth spotted during Lambeth wildlife count
• Exmoor ponies – The true descendant of Europe’s wild horses?
• Worcestershire Wildlife Trust buys three wildflower meadows
• Tracking young Scottish osprey’s zigzag tour of Britain
• First gannet chick for Scotland’s Berneray Island
• Map highlights world’s most threatened coral reefs
• Global camera trap study reveals world’s mammals are under serious threat
• Hairstreak butterfly heads north to Glasgow
• Scottish swan dies after being shot with airgun
• Man who shot Florida panther gets 2 years probation – Why so lenient?
• Heron eating a crab photo
• Critically Endangered Ploughshare tortoises rescued from smugglers
• Turtle crisis looming on Great Barrier Reef
• Orlando Bloom backs children’s butterfly book
• Count of rare Australian cockatoo reveals 2,000-strong population in South Australia
• Is hunting America’s wolves the key to their conservation?
• Wetland birds being frozen out of Britain
• 16 white-tailed sea eagles released from secret location in Fife
• New 2,400-acre reserve in Peru’s cloud forests
• Britain’s rarest spider moves house in a plastic bottle
• Rare and endangered beetles found on The Hebrides
• 'Make Your Nature Count' reveals good breeding year for Britain's birds
• Rat poisonous - African rat arms itself with poison arrow toxin
• Kent sightings confirm otters recently found every county in England
• BTO tracks cuckoos all the way to Africa
• Unusual sighting - A pink grasshopper.
• Decline in bottlenose dolphins is linked to pollutants
• Snakes and toads in London
• Rediscovered species – Or just delayed extinction?
• Wildphotos 2011
• Mekong dolphin on the verge of extinction
• Key CITES meeting to address illegal ivory and rhino horn trade
• North Sea oil spill
• ‘Tame’ rhino butchered in Laikipia
• David Shepherd to talk at WildlifeXpo
• First leopard spotted on newly created wildlife reserve in South Africa
• Brown Hairstreak butterfly recovering – Report your sightings
• Revealing seaweed secrets of North Sea coastline
• The Worcestershire field filled with a million crickets
• Baby Mountain Gorilla from Virunga National Park rescued from poachers
• Illegal trade that’s wiping wildlife off the map
• UK Seabirds falling through safety net
• Marine wildlife survey discovers feeding frenzy off Land's End peninsula
• Indonesian wildlife smuggler arrested - again
• Washington’s fifth wolf pack confirmed
• Angler helps save entangled osprey from cold
• Rare sighting of a Pallas' cat in The Altai Republic
• 200 of the world's rarest tortoises seized from smugglers in Madagascar
• Largest single threat to England’s ancient woodland goes to public inquiry
• Tracking Leatherback turtle migrations across the Pacific
• Vietnamese army named as major timber smuggler
• 30 more red kites arrive in Lake District
• Cat brings entire goldcrest nest, with chicks, into house
• New outbreak of deadly squirrel pox hits Lancashire
• Catastrophic decline in Irish curlew numbers uncovered
• India tiger population increase by 20% since 2006
• Avian pox spreading across the UK – Have you seen affected birds?
• African wild dog tracked travelling 250 miles