Wildlife News Articles From March 2012

• New look-alike species may muddy the water for an endangered hammerhead
• Migrating birds arriving early - In USA
• Elephant population halved in Cameroon killing spree
• New species of scorpion discovered – In California
• Sussex bird sanctuary objects to clay pigeon shoot
• 600 dolphins found dead in Peru
• Bluebells are coming early – Let the Woodland Trust know when you see them
• Exotic beetle pest outbreak threatening UK broadleaved trees
• Unprecedented numbers of whale & dolphin strandings on Irish coast
• Big Garden Birdwatch results 2012
• Heath Fritillary bouncing back in Cornwall
• Drought spreads to Yorkshire
• Sport hunting lion and leopard? Baited hunts and hunting with hounds
• 10 percent of Europe’s butterflies threatened with extinction
• Large Marine Protected Areas work for dolphins
• New habitat created for Endangered Southern damselfly in Pembrokeshire
• Extinct frog rediscovered in Burundi
• Help save India’s wild tigers – Log your tiger photos online
• Conservation students from around the world gather in Jersey
• Monarch butterflies down again this year as decline continues
• Call for ban on sky lanterns and balloon release in Wales
• Another species declared extinct from the Hawaiian Islands
• $1,000,000 to save 3 elephants? Ridiculous waste whilst elephants being butchered in Africa for lack of a few dollars
• Fly Paradise in Yorkshire
• Sign a petition to ban hare coursing in Ireland
• First butterflies of 2012
• Trump hunt company, Hunting Legends, statement
• New species of colourful river crabs: Already Endangered
• Strange molluscs spotted in Oman - ID required
• Canadian Government sets hunt quota of 400,000 seals
• Wildlife survey aims to debunk some modern urban myths
• Ecotourism causes passing stress for Orangutans
• Orphaned gorilla trafficking in Congo
• Amazon road spells disaster for Indians & wildlife
• Illegal settlers seek permission to shoot every elephant
• Killer whales in Co. Cork
• Balloons and dog poo in bags are major issues on Britain’s beaches
• “Cheeky Otter” secures Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year 2011 title for Marcus Conway
• BTO cuckoo ‘Missing in action’
• Rhino wars - 21st March
• Malta hunting committee ignoring science, conservation and the EU
• Kakapo island threatened by rat
• Wildlife photos stolen from Berlin exhibition
• Welsh Assembly abandons badger cull in favour of vaccination programme
• Scientists perplexed as Russian whale surfaces in California
• European trawlers scouring West Africa for fish
• Undercover investigation exposes another Asia Pulp & Paper rainforest scandal
• Leaked map reveals Ethiopia’s plans to industrialise Omo valley and for mass evictions
• Nature writing competition
• Arctic marine life threatened by increased shipping
• Camera traps outside Corbett Tiger Reserve reveal high tiger density
• White-Nose Syndrome spreading across North America - Confirmed in Alabama
• Woodland Trust halfway to creating England's largest new native forest
• Marine radar and night vision goggles find rare birds’ nests
• Shark diving more profitable than shark finning - And chumming does no harm
• Wildlife warning as drought continues
• New National Park HQ for South Sudan’s huge Boma National Park
• Wolves’ diet study reveals farmers can sleep easy
• Hiding in plain sight: New frog species found in New York
• Frankenstein taxidermist sentenced to 20 months
• Karoo’s introduced lions are thriving
• Oil beetle populations in decline – Help with the UK survey
• Yorkshire launches wildlife tourism scheme to generate £10 million per year
• Ethiopian bush-crow mystery solved
• UK’s largest new wetland to be created in Somerset
• BTO cuckoo update. They are all on their way.
• 165 year old mystery of Black swift migration solved
• Major Surrey heathland restoration after road tunnel completed
• Trump hunting story stirs major hornets nest - TV sponsor withdraws from 'Apprentice USA'
• Rhino wars update 15th March
• Bloodhounds hunt down Congo's elephant poachers
• Major US supermarkets say no to Ross Sea seafood
• Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save Borders wild land -
• WWF statement on Cameroon elephant slaughter
• Restoring Wales's climate-saving peatlands
• Bechstein's bat research in Worcestershire
• The Black Triangle of European Biodiversity: Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic
• Breeding success for Orkney hen harriers
• Extraordinary spate of Common dolphins stranding at Cape Cod
• BTO reveals England's going for goldfinch
• Black grouse numbers on the rise in Scotland
• Big jump in kiwi numbers
• Military intervention fails to halt elephant slaughter in Cameroon
• Where to see Mad March hares boxing
• Another of the world's rarest dolphins killed by a fishing net
• Albino deer in Hertfordshire
• Snake eating a snake - Photo story
• Probable ocelot sighting in Arizona
• Sperm whale washes up on Skegness Beach
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society brings Japan's whaling season to an early halt
• Worrying declines for world's seabirds
• New species of Galapagos deep-sea catshark discovered
• Genetic link suspected in kakapo deaths
• Proud of killing an elephant for fun? Donald Trump Junior appears to be
• New reserve to protect Peruvian cloud forest
• Two wildlife rangers killed in Kenya
• Lions versus stork - Photo story
• Virus threatening Critically Endangered Mauritius parakeets
• Rhino wars – 7th March 2012
• Sumatran tigers threatened by lack of ground cover
• Saving the Kereru, New Zealand’s only native pigeon
• Orangutan trader jailed in Sumatra
• One of Africa’s largest National Parks created in Niger
• Northern bald ibis return to nest in Syria
• Sloth bear and cubs saved from angry mob
• London’s mayors urged to help fight against wildlife crime
• Free membership to Butterfly Conservation for 1 year.
• New species of skink discovered in Cambodia
• New Colombian reserve offers protection to rare bird
• Landmark study of leatherback turtle migration identifies Pacific danger zones for critically-endangered species
• Forest corridors must be created to protect Proboscis monkeys
• USA legislation proposed to restrict tigers in captivity
• Wolverine caught on photo trap in Montana
• How ‘bird police’ are saving America’s red knots
• IUCN proposes new tactics to prevent overfishing.
• Malta still flouting EC rules on bird trapping
• Dogs help track down Everglade’s giant pythons
• Cameroon sends military to secure site of elephant slaughter
• One of world’s rarest birds photographed in Peru
• UK government announces 12 large scale 'wildlife zones'
• Caught on film – Maltese hunters massacring migrant birds in Egypt
• Park ranger amongst 4 Kruger staff arrested for rhino poaching
• First full look at giant prehistoric penguin
• First osprey back in the UK - Spring is on the way
• Kenya Launches Elephant conservation strategy