Wildlife News Articles From June 2012

• Leucistic crow in Devon
• Yet another baby orangutan fighting for life after being kept as a pet
• Thai hornbills supported by UK charity
• Have you seen a stag beetle recently in London? You’d be surprised
• Albino red duiker from iSimangaliso Wetland Park
• Militia attack Okapi Wildlife Reserve & kill guards
• EU to ban exotic species imports?
• Scottish salmon companies have killed 300+ seals since the start of 2011
• British oil company to drill for oil in Virunga National Park - SOCO 'Hostile to the park'
• Network Rail endangers wildlife with scrub clearing
• Appeal to save Oxon wildlife site launched
• Gamekeeper fined for trapping and starving buzzard
• Another golden eagle poisoned in Scotland
• Antarctic sea ice loss could lead to loss of 80% Emperor penguins
• 12 Sumatran elephants poisoned
• Brown-banded carder bee amongst rare bees spotted in Britain
• Gabon burns thousands of ivory tusks and carvings
• Scientist spends 40 years studying Skomer Island’s seabirds
• Fresh concerns over Serengeti Highway
• Help record the UK’s bumblebee population – Upload your photos
• Undercover investigation reveals whales killed for ‘local needs’ in Greenland are being served to tourists
• Sharp decline in upland birds in Wales
• Military forces clear LRA from Congo park – But for how long?
• Bandhavgarh tigress visits secret spa hideaway
• Venezuela ends shark finning & creates protected area
• Unusual tern settled in Llanelli
• England badger cull faces legal challenge
• Rare Sumatran rhino gives birth at Indonesian sanctuary
• More ospreys in Sussex
• Green shoots of recovery for House Sparrows?
• World’s most famous tortoise, Lonesome George, is dead and his species is extinct
• Crucial US bird conservation programs cut by 50 percent
• New swift tracking project reveals migration surprises
• Two ospreys set up home in Sussex
• UK hare numbers decline by 80% - Time for a close season
• Moth returns to UK in time for moth night
• Welsh Government launches Badger TB vaccination programme
• Six lions killed after they strayed from Nairobi National park
• World’s rarest rhinos mating on Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy
• Rarest kiwi species reintroduced to New Zealand’s North Island
• Inaugural Lush prize to stamp out animal testing offers £250,000 rewards
• Leucistic Canarian Chiffchaff
• New species of day flying moth discovered in New Zealand
• 11 new species of ant discovered in The Philippines
• New species of crab has been found hiding on the seabed off Spain
• Prince William rails against rhino poaching as 3 rhinos moved from Kent to Tanzania
• Teenagers used bird for a game of catch
• Huge INTERPOL crackdown on wildlife trade in 14 countries
• New Ecuador reserve to help protect one of the world's rarest and smallest birds
• IUCN 2012 update - 4 species extinct – 2 rediscovered – Food security waning
• The world’s rarest toad rediscovered in Sri Lanka
• White buzzard spotted in Scotland
• Saving Asia’s rarest bunting
• BTO tag 11 new cuckoos, including Scottish and Welsh birds
• Blandford’s fox caught on camera across Iran
• Critically Endangered Hawksbill turtle nesting threatened on Egyptian island
• Russian tiger conservation receives boost from prestigious global award
• Orca sighted just metres from Scottish coast
• Two rare striped dolphins strand in Cornwall
• Vancouver Island orca suffer more from hunger than tourism
• Congo park a safe haven amidst elephant slaughter in Central Africa
• European BirdLife Partners take action against European bird crime
• Tiger deaths surge in India – Corbett & Tadoba hit by poaching
• Australia creates world's biggest marine park
• Cougars are re-populating their historical range across USA
• Sparrowhawk chicks hatch in Edinburgh Botanic Garden – Live on webcam
• US launches emergency rescue of Schaus swallowtail butterfly on the verge of extinction
• First BTO cuckoo heads south, after just 6 weeks in UK
• First captive breeding of Critically Endangered turtle in Bangladesh
• Chinese e-Commerce companies declare zero-tolerance towards illegal online wildlife trading
• One of Australia’s rarest birds flocking to Northern Territory reserve
• Second 'white kite' spotted at Gigrin Farm
• Two new species of frog identified in Australia
• Largest congregation of Critically Endangered Beck’s petrel ever recorded
• Is it possible to predict the formation of new species? - Probably
• New species of bird identified in Colombia
• Two rhinos killed on Tanzania’s Serengeti – 32 wildlife staff suspended
• New home created for one of UK’s most endangered beetles
• UK Great bustard population to be boosted with egg imports
• Joseph Kony’s LRA moves into DRC’s Garamba National Park
• First photos of jaguars in Colombian oil palm plantation bring hope for jaguar migration
• Eagles were once widespread across Britain
• Seals' heads nailed to Irish Seal Sanctuary door
• Central African countries agree plan to improve law enforcement and combat poaching
• More osprey chicks hatching around the UK
• IUCN bird update – Major worries for African vultures, European sea ducks and Amazon birds
• France to ban oilseed pesticide to protect bees
• Is Yahoo! profiting from the killing of whales and dolphins?
• Housebuilder agrees to create 100 acre wildflower meadow on Swindon development
• Grain distributed to villagers affected by elephant conflict
• 4 dugong fitted with Satellite tags off Abu Dhabi
• Cheetah in Iran migrating between 2 reserves 130 kilometres apart
• Rat found on key ‘rat free’ island in New Zealand
• First case of White-nose syndrome recorded in Endangered gray bats
• Party balloons linked to marine bird deaths
• Adders need corridors through the woods
• New reserve declared in Guatemala to protect indigenous frogs and Endangered birds
• Tiger hacked into pieces
• New population of Critically Endangered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey found in China
• Critically Endangered spoon-billed sandpipers to be hand reared in Russia
• Leucistic sparrow in Devon
• Minke whales off Hastings & Striped dolphin off Plymouth including video
• Butterfly survey – 2011 numbers 22% down
• 14 staff leave WWF Tanzania after $400,000 fraud
• Make Your Nature Count 2012