Wildlife News Articles From January 2012

• DNA tests confirm presence of a fox, not big cats at deer carcass in Gloucestershire
• Is Virunga’s gorilla king about to lose his throne?
• Working to save Nicaragua’s hawksbills
• Gamekeeper loses appeal
• Countdown to extinction continues for world’s rarest dolphin
• Water voles living at altitude on Beinn Eighe
• Get your garden ready for wildlife
• Philippines wants to move in on Indonesian tuna stocks
• Bears ‘commit suicide’ to escape horror of gall bile farms
• World Society for the Protection of Animals team up with Met police in fight against wildlife crime
• Leucistic impalas
• Five snow leopards photographed in Tajikistan valley
• High-tech camera monitors eels as they set off on 3,000 mile journey
• Wildlife crime in Surrey part of ‘vile’ global trade
• Rattlesnake roundup in Georgia now a humane wildlife festival
• Palm oil companies offering rewards for killing orangutans
• 99 whales stranded in New Zealand
• Nearly 90 different marine mammal species consumed by people in 114 countries
• New 40,000 square mile haven for Pacific’s leatherbacks
• Sumatran elephants edging closer to extinction
• Cheetah cub somersault - Video
• Humpback whales off Aberdeen for 2 weeks
• The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch 2012
• BTO cuckoos - What has happened to Kasper?
• Join the hedgehog survey
• An armoured catfish, a cowboy frog, and a host of colourful insects discovered in southwest Suriname
• Endangered Lesser Antillean Iguana breed at Durrell
• Newly discovered frog is world’s tiniest vertebrate
• Pythons and Anacondas banned from US import and transportation
• Thames airport proposals ‘catastrophic’ for wildlife
• Rhino poaching: what is the solution?
• Badgers, deer and hares – the innocent victims of fox snares
• Mongoose-hair paintbrushes put species at risk
• So how DO you move five tons of rhino?
• US States still allowing trade in bear gall bladders
• Leucistic sparrows near Nottingham
• 19,232 new species discovered in 2009
• Major floods in Kruger National Park
• Caught on camera: Borneo’s mysterious bay cat
• Cetacean sightings from the Newcastle to Amsterdam ferry
• Highs and lows for Irish Red Kites in 2011
• Nile crocodiles are two different species – According to Geneticist ‘splitters’
• New horse-fly species named after pop diva Beyonce
• Scottish river ‘rebent’ to help wildlife
• 'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in Borneo
• South Korea’s whale bycatch ‘loophole’
• The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds… and bees, bats, butterflies and bugs!
• African mystery surrounds Welsh-born osprey
• Badger kill zones revealed
• Extremely rare Southern River terrapin released into the Wild
• Bat death toll reaches 6 million in USA
• Kakapo death ends disappointing year
• Critically Endangered Monk Seals Slain in Hawaii
• When is a Blackbird not a black bird?
• Birds and butterflies responding to climate change - Slowly
• Albino bat photo
• Second Lanarkshire gamekeeper convicted of poisoning offences in a week
• First ever chick photos give hope for threatened Caribbean seabird
• Are your woods already springing to life?
• Wandering albatrosses benefiting from climate change – for now
• Miracle survival of Sabah’s lonely female rhino
• Worst year again for rhino poaching in South Africa
• Eight rhino carcasses found in Kruger – More rangers to be deployed
• 5 years searching for the world’s rarest animals
• Blue sheep protected from hunters in Nepal
• The tiger sharks that eat woodpeckers and meadowlarks
• Human-elephant conflict escalates in Sri Lanka
• New diseases in livestock, native wildlife and humans
• No rhinos poached in Chitwan National Park in 2011
• 3 Florida panthers die in the first 10 days of 2012
• World’s first look at the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
• Giant tortoise species thought to be extinct for 150 years lives on
• DNA tests could confirm big cat presence in Gloucestershire
• Hundreds of seabirds caught in Cornish fishing nets in just one day
• Half a tonne of ivory seized in Malaysia
• Why planting mangroves is good news for whale sharks
• Plane crazy: US legislation brings whooping crane migration to a halt
• Former gamekeeper convicted of bird poisoning
• Endangered Blue ducks relocated to New Zealand’s fjordland
• Kangaroo Island named as “Hideaway of the year”
• Three vessels fined for violating Right Whale ship strike reduction rules
• Dormice found on Suffolk reserve for the first time
• Bulgaria – Great potential for ecotourism?
• New species discovered around Caribbean deep sea thermal vents
• Striking new species of viper discovered in Tanzania
• Bird smuggler arrested in Indonesia
• Hotels to be built in Kruger National Park – And removed from Nepal’s Chitwan
• New primate species discovered on Madagascar
• 27 wolves confirmed in Washington State
• New yeti crab amongst new species discovered around Antarctic hydrothermal vents
• Avian pox - Please report observations
• Seychelles warbler back from the brink
• Scottish beavers – No effect on streams so far
• Annual manatee death count shows cold weather an unusually big factor again
• 80 percent decline in Caribou blamed on big industry
• White sparrow in Texas - Albino or leucistic?
• Critically Endangered Seychelles Paradise-flycatcher habitat destroyed by developer
• Terrible year as ivory seizures reach record levels
• Two more Vietnamese caught with rhino horns in South Africa
• Snow leopard cub photographed in Afghanistan
• Working to protect wild leopards in South Africa outside of parks and reserves
• New invasive crayfish even more damaging
• Sea Shepherd ship severely damaged by rogue wave
• Extreme winter in Mongolia devastated Przewalski’s horse population