Wildlife News Articles From February 2012

• Alarm in Paraguay at settlement plans for Nacunday National Park
• Over fishing threatens the survival of seabirds – New data
• Keeping Scotland’s whales, dolphins and sharks safe
• Conservation dilemma – Kill to save?
• Brown bears declared extinct in Austria - Again
• Olympics 2012: going for green
• 318 wolves killed in Idaho – Because they eat deer - Its Elkonomics
• World’s oldest elephant tracks uncovered
• Wild cats under threat from domestic moggies in South Africa’s Kruger National Park
• Two more rhino killed in the Kruger National Park
• Seven arrests in US clampdown on rhino horn trade
• Dorset heathland wildlife saved from housing development
• Protection for Golden poison frog, the world's most poisonous vertebrate
• $4.5 million fine US industrial for distributing contaminated birdseed
• Ethiopia's Omo Valley and its tribes threatened by industrial farms
• New road risk to Iran’s cheetahs & leopards
• Otter poo reveals surprising facts about otter's diet - Includes birds and mice
• Egg collector banned from Scotland
• New bat species found in Vietnam
• Four more rhinos moved to India’s Manas National Park
• Albino fallow deer in the New Forest
• Spring unfolds in Europe’s spectacular wilderness areas
• Tiger skins, elephant ivory and bones seized in Malaysia
• Leucistic Kob in Uganda
• Twelve per cent of marine species in tropical eastern Pacific threatened
• Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust 2011 sightings and strandings summary
• New species of sea snake in Australia
• Four new species: tiny chameleons discovered in Madagascar
• Shining (infra-red) light on Welsh woodlands wildlife
• New family of legless burrowing amphibian discovered in India’s vanishing habitats
• At home in the wild – rehabilitated bear spotted safe and well
• The world’s most endangered frog – Just 1 known animal left
• More than 200 elephants slaughtered in Cameroon since January - massacre continues
• BTO cuckoos heading north
• Rare bats discovered in Cheshire for first time in half a century
• Thai wildlife rescue centres raided by local officials
• Rwandan gorilla permits to jump by 50 percent in June to $750
• First gannet of 2012 lands on the world-famous Bass Rock
• Indian vulture crisis update – Diclofenac still widely used
• Gamekeeper filmed killing wild birds in a cage – Courts won’t prosecute
• Sniffer dog helps recover 32 kg of ivory
• Huge migration of tiny songbird revealed
• Europe’s rarest seabird recovering from fire
• Lady of Liuwa gets 2 sisters as lionesses are relocated to Liuwa National Park
• The poster that may save India’s parrots
• Bird feeding proves recession-proof
• Nature Photography 2012 award winners announced
• Digging deep to save Florida’s manatees
• South Georgia seabird sanctuary receives £250,000 to eradicate rats
• Building a new home for Somerset’s bitterns
• Little-known pygmy Nile crocodile found in new areas of Uganda
• Irrawaddy & Gangetic dolphins protected by three new sanctuaries in Bangladesh
• Ancient Sahara site celebrated for World Wetlands Day
• New hope as Sumatran rhino Ratu falls pregnant again
• India’s wolves struggle for survival
• 1,500 live turtles found crammed into suitcases
• How toilet paper is threatening Indonesia's tigers
• Arizona wolf numbers are up
• Another leucistic impala - This time on the Serengeti
• Big boost for wildlife conservation: 23 new SOS projects
• New species of skink discovered in Australia
• Mythical boom in jellyfish blooms
• Indian lesser flamingos compared to their African cousins in new genetic study
• Rhino and calf recovering from AK47 attack
• Not guilty: Mongolian gazelles are NOT spreading foot-and-mouth
• Whooping cranes to finish migration by road
• Black rhino relocation launches new rhino sanctuary in Kenya
• Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi agree trans-boundary eco-system management laws
• India’s tigers are making a comeback
• Winners of BirdGuides photo awards announced
• Seas around Canna rich in unusual marine wildlife
• A supergiant prawn – monster of the deep
• Lamb is NOT on the menu for red kites, farmers told
• Blizzard of birds hits UK’s frozen gardens
• Rare white Dorcas gazelle and unusual birdlife spotted in Sahara
• Humpbacks singing different tunes
• When the gorillas came visiting....
• Win a cruise for 2 to Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the UK’s dramatic North Coastline
• Breeding grounds discovered for 2 seabirds previously thought extinct
• Anthrax outbreak at Mana Pools
• Oil exploration survey spots 17 blue whales off coast of southern Australia
• Wildlife suffering as countryside dries out
• Conflict elephant rescued from death sentence
• Illegal ivory trade blooms during Egypt’s Arab Spring
• BTO cuckoos show first signs of moving north
• Tiger carcasses found in Bangkok taxidermist’s premises
• Endangered Bryde's whale killed by apparent ship strike
• Removing illegal snares to protect China’s tigers
• New population of Critically Endangered monkey found in Colombia
• Sea turtle baby boom on Turtle Islands breaks 28-year record
• Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe improving
• Treasure trove of wildlife found in Peruvian National Park
• Satellite tracking Scotland’s birds of prey
• Pigeon fanciers investigated by police for Peregrine persecution
• New hope for world’s rarest gorilla
• Coal mining threatening Hwange National Park
• British Wildlife Photography Awards 2012
• Another kakapo death – Caused by transmitter harness