Wildlife News Articles From April 2012

• Leucistic Common Reedbuck in South Africa's Isimangaliso Wetland Park - Another photo
• BTO cuckoos back in UK – Another one bites the dust
• Two Indian men arrested in Bangladesh with 450 rare tortoises
• One of the world’s rarest dolphins found dead on New Zealand beach
• Spotted red squirrel in Sweden
• Ranger and policeman killed on Kruger in search for poachers
• 24 new species of lizards discovered on Caribbean islands are close to extinction
• Joint Iraqi and UK team set to work on major new conservation initiative in Iraq
• Rare sea bird killed by marine litter in Chichester
• Eating shark fin soup makes you stupid
• Iceland to resume hunt of endangered Fin whales
• Amur leopard photographed in China for the first time
• Critically Endangered tortoises, raised in captivity, breed in the wild for the first time
• RSPB acquires 563 acres of important habitat on shore of Loch Lomond
• White killer whale observed off Russia - Images and video
• Antarctic ice melt driven by warming seas – Driving sea-level rise
• Repeated delays plague landmark rhino poaching case
• New ’bumblebee’ gecko discovered in Papua New Guinea
• ‘Extinct’ cloud rat rediscovered in the Philippines
• Poachers strike Garamba National Park to kill 22 elephants
• The sea as a rubbish tip – Microplastic being absorbed by marine life
• Morepork and kea being killed by motorists in New Zealand
• Mugabe cronie takes 8th farm
• New wetland being created near Salisbury
• Was canid shot in New Brunswick first wolf for 150 years?
• Critically Endangered parrot gets 356 new acres to live on
• WWF President number 2 – Let's kill more wolves because we want to kill the elk
• Critically Endangered Waved Albatross gets lifeline from new technology to reduce bycatch
• Fish in bags among wildlife seizures at Bangkok airport
• Drive to rid cosmetics of whale products
• Water voles unexpected reappearance in Kent wildlife reserve
• Drought in USA has killed 10,000 birds so far this year
• Slender-horned gazelles - How to count them in the Sahara?
• Two new frog species discovered in the Philippines
• Greylag goose at Stretton Sugwas Lakes
• First sightings of Minke whales and Common dolphins off the Hebrides in 2012
• Scottish Farm manager admits possession of deadly poison after Golden eagle death
• Leucistic giraffe on the Kruger and a leucistic zebra
• 20 – 30 new frogs discovered in Madagascan forest
• Record spring respite for rare butterflies
• Building owners in North America taken to court over bird deaths
• Critically Endangered Grenada dove gets a lifeline
• New wildlife photography competition launched by ZSL
• Increased sightings of Short-tailed Albatross on Hawaii
• Purple heron spotted in Devon
• Powdered rhino horn sale rumours are false
• WWF Honorary President – King Juan Carlos – injured on elephant hunt in Botswana
• Help Sea Watch spot whales in the Pentland Firth
• Two rhinos poached in Northern Kenya
• Scimitar-horned Oryx to be reintroduced into the wild in Chad
• Some good news for rhinos – Numbers in North East India on the up
• Kakapo moved to predator free island north of Auckland
• Russia creates new National Park to protect Amur leopards – The world’s rarest big cat
• First ever photographic evidence of tigers in Namdapha tiger reserve
• Spate of marine mammal deaths off Mumbai – Pollution suspected
• Building wind farms worse for birds than operation
• Orangutan caught in snare as ‘sustainable’ palm oil company trashes forest
• Wildlife at risk as drought spreads
• Cornwall - Scilly wildlife watching cruises
• Wildlife bridges playing important role for Canada’s wildlife
• Satellite images reveal twice as many Emperor penguins as were known to exist
• New project aims to saves world’s rarest turtle species
• Polar bears showing signs of disease that killed seals in Alaska in 2011
• Juicy fruits just too tempting for chimpanzees
• Hidden cameras record ‘The Secret Lives of Penguins’
• Mull Sea eagle watch moves to new location
• Gamekeeper guilty of illegally trapping tawny owl
• Is the Natterjack toad about to croak?
• Leopard cubs caught on photo trap in Iran
• Chernobyl and Fukushima – No effect on birds?
• First camera-trap photos of the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) from the Chaco of Paraguay
• The elusive freshwater dolphin of the sacred Ganga
• Sixty tuatara released onto Auckland island
• Good news for Norwegian polar bears
• New agreement protects 80,000 acres of Guatemala forest
• Urban coyote’s feasting on cats
• French trawler amongst boats arrested off West Africa for illegal fishing
• New population of Endangered Grey-crowned Crocias found in Vietnam
• Ducklings signal hope for world’s rarest bird
• Possible Narwhal stranding in Ireland
• Rhino wars - South Africa to make rhino horn trade legal?
• Drought conditions playing havoc with bluebell season
• Ostriches released onto newly created wildlife reserve in South Africa
• Rescued Turkey dolphins ready for release into the wild
• Hyenas change their diet for Lent
• Fiji fishing experiment – It doesn’t take long to trash fish stocks
• Antarctic warming changing penguin breeding cycles, and success
• Arctic blast threatens real Easter eggs
• House sparrows in decline in India – Help BNHS survey house sparrows
• First BTO cuckoo crosses the Sahara
• Minke whale washes ashore at Spurn Point
• Adder study to monitor inbreeding in isolated population
• Maasai Mara lion killed during Maasai 'initiation ceremony'
• Cambodian Sun bear worker winds international conservation award
• Southern Africa’s first record of Little Crake
• Twenty new species of insect discovered in the heart of Europe – In the Czech Republic
• Snail that eats crabs in Queensland