Wildlife News Articles From November 2011

• Wildcats caught on camera in Scotland
• Extinct frog rediscovered in Israel
• Giant pandas coming to Edinburgh Zoo – What is the point?
• Littering and starting wild fires – All good fun?
• Fragmented rainforests can maintain their ecological functionality
• Counting snow leopards in Nepal – Fewer than thought
• Christmas for wildlife watchers
• Wildlife laundering through breeding farms threatens wild populations
• A new species of ferret-badger discovered in Vietnam
• Alaska grizzlies targetted to boost moose and caribou hunts
• David Mayer releases new bronze sculptures
• Don’t encourage rats into your garden with birdfood
• 84 new species of ant-like flower beetles discovered in Wallacea and New Guinea
• Scotland’s red kites weather the storms
• New 'uncontacted' group found in the Amazon
• Cuckoo tracking – All 5 cuckoos now in Congo Rainforest
• UK wildlife photography competition 2011 - Finalists
• China breaks 2010 promise – still killing tigers for profit
• Last chance for Sage-grouse in Canada
• 65 Pilot whales die after stranding in New Zealand
• State of UK waterbirds - Duck down
• Sabah's east coast orang-utans in serious decline
• Fury as Dutch court prevents young orca's return to the wild
• Durrell’s pied tamarin work honoured
• Alarming decline in Europe’s plants, molluscs and freshwater fish
• Bolivia’s top wildlife oasis flourishes
• Poisoning fears as red kites found dead in Ireland
• Albatrosses off the hook in the nick of time
• New sighting of a Jaguar confirmed in Arizona
• Research show eco-tourism benefits the Amazon
• 33 rhino horns and a quantity of ivory seized in Hong Kong
• Night flowering orchid discovered
• Satellite tracking Eleonora’s falcons, Montagu’s harriers and Egyptian vultures
• Swifts and swallows still flying, eggs hatching, bats and dragonflies still about!
• ‘Extinct’ giant sponge rediscovered off Singapore
• £1million raised to buy the home of the Welsh red dragon legend
• New action plan to save Central Africa’s wildlife
• Very unusual snail is new to science
• Critically endangered Spoon-billed sandpiper chicks arrive in the UK
• Five rare wild cat species caught on camera in Sumatra – but forest is being destroyed
• Another spurious cure claim threatens Tokay gecko
• How a simple change in fishing gear can save Atlantic's sharks
• New hope for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger
• 10,000 dead songbirds seized from Romanian truck
• Government rejects 75% of UK Marine Protected Areas
• Plummeting forest elephant numbers in eastern Congo blamed on civil war
• Mass Sperm whale stranding in Tasmania
• Transformed: Three years from gravel pit to thriving nature reserve
• First Bewick swans return to UK
• Unusual lumpsucker fish found off Cornwall
• Glossy ibis in Derbyshire
• Why Libya needs to find time to think of conservation
• Lady Liuwa gets 2 ‘sisters’
• It’s official – the key to conservation lies with indigenous peoples
• 800 Critically Endangered giant snails die in a fridge
• Satellite tracking Bactrian camels in the Gobi Desert
• Chillis: The answer to human-elephant conflict in Benin?
• Vast turtle slaughter in Bangladesh
• Killer fungus confirmed as the cause of a million US bat deaths
• How Namibian farmers are making room for cheetahs
• Call to halt spread of feral cats in the US
• RSPB survey reveals South West's top five farm birds
• Peregrine persecution on grouse moors
• IUCN Red List: 62,000 species assessed; Western black rhino declared extinct - again
• Rarely-seen warbler wings its way from Eastern Asia to Hertfordshire
• Volcano erupts in Virunga National Park
• Tonne of African ivory seized on Vietnam-Chinese border
• Big game hunting in Africa is economically useless - IUCN
• Irish eagle rescued in Scotland
• Wolves spreading across Germany – Surprisingly fast
• Jaguars mating in the Pantanal - Photo story
• Critically Endangered kiwi chicks released on New Zealand's pest-free Pomona Island
• Saving Romania's virgin forests
• Bringing conservation to Scotland's grouse moors
• Orphaned elephant calf rescued in Zambia
• Four lions moved to rescue centre in Ethiopia
• Conservation scientists expect a serious loss of biological diversity
• Caribbean’s rarest species given lifeline by education
• Indian tribe wins right to use tiger reserve land - Is this the way forward?
• Japan's annual porpoise slaughter about to start
• Massive marine sanctuary planned for New Zealand subtropics
• Mexican wolves released into San Luis Mountains
• Scotland's "seabird cities" still in crisis
• UK nature movement takes its first million steps
• Bitterns are back at WWT London Wetland Centre
• Whale meat sale prompts in Iceland prompts Foreign Office warning
• Worst ever year for rhino poaching in South Africa
• Massive bird kill at US wind farm
• A century of protection for Britain's birds of prey but the poisoning goes on
• How bat wings can heal themselves
• Arctic seal visits Scottish nature reserve
• Lion trophy ban needed to save Africa's lions
• Eight new birding trails opened in Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park
• West African lions in danger of extinction due to trophy hunting
• Fruitful year for oak trees means plenty of food for wildlife
• Whooping crane shooting: two youngsters arrested
• How cows staged the comeback of rare chequered skipper in Lochaber
• Feral goat cull on Scottish island of Rum