Wildlife News Articles From December 2011

• Timor Bush-warbler rediscovered
• Belize protected area boosting predatory fish populations
• British wildlife adapts well to confusing year of two springs and no summer
• Jaguar cubs photo shows conservation success in Bolivia
• The safe way for animals to cross the road…
• String of smuggling attempts foiled in Jakarta
• Journey’s end as red kite is found poisoned
• The 3 most important forests for birds
• Candid video clips from Thailand show anti-poaching efforts saving tigers and unusual wildlife
• Leopards reintroduced into Malawi's Majete reserve
• Wives and girlfriends urged to speak out against badger baiting
• One of the world’s most important atolls cleared of rats
• Two new species of moss frog found in South-East Asia
• Russia bans imports of Canadian seal products
• Don’t feed garden birds with turkey and goose fat – It may kill them
• Hundreds of threatened species not on official US list
• Mekong dam delay is positive step says WWF
• 5000 birds crash land in a car park – 1500 die
• Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2102 launched
• Search begins for outstanding green heroes
• Pilot badger culls are a mistake - Wildlife Trusts
• Tiger sanctuary being felled by paper giant
• Official report confirms massive misuse of EU fisheries funds
• Australia's Ground parrots are distinct species - Critically Endangered
• Scotland’s white-tailed eagles reach record numbers since
• Successful breeding for New Zealand’s Doubtful Sound dolphins
• English egg collector jailed for fourth time
• BTO want records of garden birds with unusual plumage
• Tigers caught on camera trap in Indonesia's Way Kambas park
• UK butterflies hibernating in winter
• Maltese hunters arrested for killing birds in UK
• Environmental excellence award for North Cave Wetlands
• 140 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2011
• The wolverines that float on snow
• Durrell reintroduces world’s rarest tortoise to Madagascar wilds
• 3400 whales, dolphins and porpoises stranded in UK 2005 - 2010
• Six Blue whales sighted off Washington State coast
• Elephant seal travels 18,000 miles in 11 months
• Possibly the largest haul of ivory ever found, 15 tonnes, seized in Malaysia
• Welsh wetland turned over to wildlife
• Critically Endangered Haiti lizard gives birth to 12 young – in the UK
• Good year for dragonflies and damselflies
• Law enforcement vital for great ape survival
• Endangered Hoolock gibbons moved to safety in India
• New species discovered every two days in the Mekong
• Missing American bee rediscovered after 50 year absence
• Rhino poaching avalanche getting worse – And robberies escalating too
• English man arrested in Bulgaria for egg collecting
• Predator proof fence boost for Hawaii’s birds
• New bronze rhino to help in fight against rhino poaching
• Canon beats Nikon in unscientific poll
• Snow leopards photographed in Siberia for the first time
• Savage cruelty towards a mother Brown bear with two Cubs in Iran
• Japan urged to recall whaling fleet and abandon dying whale meat industry
• Rogue fisherman illegally catches great white shark in South Africa
• Sabah’s proboscis monkeys in crisis
• More jaguars mating in the Pantanal - Photo story
• Historic conservation success for Ecuadorian Andes
• England’s hen harrier reaches new low - Just 4 pairs
• Weasel words are not enough to defend Europe’s neglected carnivores
• Persian leopard photographed in Afghanistan
• Almost three quarters of UK butterfly species have decreased in population during the last decade
• 25 permits issued to hunt Houbara bustards in Pakistan
• Great bustard sightings – Have you seen one?
• China bans auction of tiger wine after outrage in UK
• Northern white rhino - Romance but no cigar
• Sierra Leone creates new national park twice the size of the Isle of Wight
• 2,000 more bee species than previously thought
• 12 new species of frogs discovered in The Amazon
• Polar skuas migration and winter quarters revealed
• Brazilian tribal leaders targeted by gunmen
• Taking a stand against rhino poaching
• A fool and his money….
• Tiger bone wine auction in China a disgrace
• Winners of The UK Wildlife Photography Awards 2011
• Goats and rats removed from two Fijian islands
• Six Black rhinos die of natural causes in Zambia's North Luangwa
• Mega-dam in Peruvian rainforest halted by indigenous peoples’ opposition
• Chancellor’s new attack on nature
• Kent wildlife site at risk from 5,000 house development
• Public call on Government to save British humming birds, albatrosses and whales
• Four lane highway to destroy Indian tiger corridor
• Norway harpoons efforts to recognise whaling as threat to whales
• Measuring the threat to Jersey’s birds
• Wiltshire reserve digs deep for wildlife
• Call for changes to deadly antifreeze to stop wildlife poisonings
• Gamekeeper admits poisoning buzzards