Wildlife News Articles From July 2012

• Third wild-hatched California condor chick confirmed in Arizona-Utah in 2012
• Killer whales spotted off Norfolk Coast
• Black-browed Albatross showing strong signs of recovery on Falklands
• Reds squirrels in Northumberland threatened by greys
• Deer rescued from electric fence – Dramatic footage
• Good breeding season for the red kites of Northern Ireland
• Reforestation rate to be doubled in Scotland
• Wildlife Olympics – And the Olympian that kills wildlife
• Little egrets breeding at Cotswold Water Park for the first time
• RSPB proves you can farm for wildlife
• Iran's cheetah brothers roaming far and wide in search of food and a mate
• Anti whaling charities harpooning each other rather than fighting for conservation
• Pilot whale the highlight of National Whale and Dolphin Watch
• Lao PDR identified as a key player in illegal ivory trade
• Poaching of tiger prey needs to be stopped as well as poaching of tigers
• Leopard photo matched to 8 year old image
• Ten British species given new names
• Big Butterfly Count 2012 - Worrying lack of butterfly counters!
• World Parrot Trust urges Governments to end trafficking of wild African Grey Parrots
• First Peregrines raised in Glasgow
• Large whales spotted off Anglesey
• India to ban tiger tourism?
• New mammal species discovered in Indonesia
• South Korea drops scientific whaling plan
• Pythons, lorises and a monkey seized at Bangkok airport
• Half of Kielder's osprey chicks didn't survive the weather
• Unchallenged crimes of "rotten apple" palm oil company
• Biggest ever survey of one of the world’s most endangered bats gets underway on Comoros Islands
• Snow leopard's given satellite collars in Afghanistan
• Lapwings hit new low; further declines in UK breeding waders revealed
• Polar bears and brown bears have mixed over millions of years
• Search for missing mountain gorillas will begin in Congo
• UK House of Lords debate elephant poaching
• EU to ban destructive deep sea fishing?
• Cheetah sighting reported in Kazakhstan
• Flatworm with 60 eyes recorded in UK for the first time
• First map of London's amphibians and reptiles - Can you fill in the gaps?
• What we know and don't know about earth's missing biodiversity - Known unknowns
• 14 killer whales hunting seals off John O'Groats
• 11 hectares of meadow bought by Oxford Wildlife Trust
• Photo story - Bempton gannets giving flowers
• Thai customs seize nearly half a ton of ivory
• South Africa proposes legalising rhino horn sales to China
• Rare whale stranding a first for Victoria
• Time to call a halt to tiger farming
• 40 million starlings disappeared from Europe in 30 years
• Ebay still selling ivory - Labelled as "Ox bone"
• Many primates still being openly traded in markets in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities
• South Africa vets & hunters involved in rhino poaching
• Britain's rarest spider being bred in captivity for release
• 46 elephant tusks seized at Cape Town airport
• Malta's only Peregrines shot by hunters
• Young mountain gorillas observed destroying poachers' snares for the first time!
• Man gets 2 years in jail for attempting to steal rhino horn from UK museum
• Two convicted for selling ivory in New York
• Ivory cartel to be created to sell ivory stocks?
• Poachers killed in separate incidents in Kenya
• Wet & windy weather - All bad news?
• Endangered Freshwater pearl mussel stronghold decimated
• Britain's urban rivers bounce back
• Kielder osprey is usurper
• BTO cuckoos all on their way back to Africa
• Scarlet snake discovered in Cambodia
• Huge party in Zimbabwe will cause major disturbance to wildlife
• New reserves to protect 100 ha of threatened Caribbean forest on Dominican Republic
• 20 Basking sharks fitted with satellite tags off Scotland
• First ever spoon-billed sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK
• Snow leopard cubs filmed in den for first time
• UK butterflies suffering from wet weather - Attenborough asks "How much?"
• High Court rules that badger cull can go ahead
• 10 million kilos of shark fin imported into Hong Kong in 1 year – Where from?
• Is noise a factor in bird breeding failure?
• Second Great white egret nest hatches chick in Somerset
• German wind farms kill 200,000 bats annually, mostly from the Baltic!
• New forest discovery triples rare habitat area in Angola
• New red squirrel map reveals they are more widespread than thought
• The good, the bad and the ugly of the world's wetlands
• World's rarest snake clinging on on 1 tiny islet in West Indies
• Osprey chick snatched by buzzard raises one-eyed questions
• Branson - 'Swim with sharks, don't eat them'
• Markhor conservation paying dividends in Pakistan
• Greenland refused permission to increase 'subsistence whaling'
• Annual GB mammal roadkill survey
• New Zealand chastised by IWC for failure to protect world's rarest dolphins
• Rare birds breeding in UK more often - With exceptions
• Militia kill staff and Okapi at Wildlife Reserve
• 14 rhinos amongst hundreds of animals drowned in floods in India
• White nose syndrome threatens social bats with extinction
• Ann Widdecombe & Simon Cowell launch campaign for Hedgehog Protection Act
• Trawlerman convicted of illegal fishing in Lyme Bay
• Bear cub rescued from hunter in Laos
• South Africa changes rules on rhino hunts - Halts Vietnamese for now
• Six natural wonders declared World Heritage Sites
• South Korea launches alleged 'Scientific whaling' to add to their 'bycatch' - ARSE
• Loch Garten osprey chicks fitted with satellite tags
• Brutal Ukraine zoo sells bear cub to tourist trade
• New 'pingers' could help save Cornwall's dolphins
• 7th wolf pack confirmed in Washington State
• Hunt launched for New Zealand storm petrel's elusive breeding grounds
• England's forests to be saved for the nation
• Cornwall's chough came from Ireland
• World’s smallest fly discovered in Thailand
• Chinese Government bans shark fin soup at official banquets
• New plan for Critically Endangered dwarf buffalo
• Squacco heron in Norfolk
• Vast, unnecessary hotel complex to destroy Portugal’s wetland paradise
• Poaching is an immediate danger to the world’s elephant populations - CITES
• South African wildlife experts help save India’s wild Gaur
• Roaming tiger captured in Northern India
• Stunning White-winged Black Tern graces Cleveland Lakes Reserve, Cotswold Water Park
• Cambodia remains last vulture bastion in Southeast Asia
• Australia’s Northern Territory planning to allow trophy hunting for crocodiles