Wildlife News Articles From January 2013

• What animal has black and white spots?
• Lush bow to pressure and ditch plastic glitter from products
• Wildlife boom expected after eradication of 30,000 rats on Pacific island
• 13 pygmy elephants poisoned in Sabah
• WWF launches mobile network – Talk and text to raise money for conservation
• Exposure to pesticides can kill frogs
• Rarest kiwis released into the wild as numbers double in 15 years
• Wind farm in Lesotho could cause the local extinction of vultures
• Plan to return water voles to Kielder Forest underway
• Cats kill 2.4 billion birds and 12 billion mammals every year in US alone
• 700 – 1000 dolphins killed in Solomon Islands
• 15 years dedicated to saving Critically Endangered wild Bactrian camels
• Tracker dog tracks down 2 rhino poachers in India – Appeal to Indian Government to stop rhino poaching
• Protected Areas are key hotspots to help wildlife adapt to Climate Change'
• Researchers leave port to search for and tag Blue whales in Antarctica
• USA wading bird nesting in key area plummets 39 percent below 10-year average
• Snow bunting decline prompts migration study
• Leopard rescued from a house in India
• World's rarest antelope GPS collared for first time in Kenya
• Seal pup takes refuge on dashboard
• New 150 hectare nature reserve being created from old quarry in Devon
• Huge population of tapir discovered on Peru - Bolivian border
• Is lead shot poisoning the UK's birds?
• 2013 Safari Awards
• Lady Liuwa update - Surviving lions have formed a small pride
• First nest ever discovered of one of the world's most endangered birds
• Eleven live otters found in airport luggage in Bangkok
• US Navy in deep water after ship hits World Heritage reef in Philippines
• Concerns grow for Mali's elephants as war escalates
• Wildlife Crime Unit gets funding for another year
• Leucistic wood pigeon in the Pyrenees
• Citizen scientists reveal how snow brings birds into gardens
• Very remote, high altitude haven proving a saviour for wild yak
• Dead condor found in Zion National Park in Utah
• Do elephants use tools? Amboseli elephant cleaning his toenails with a piece of wood
• Controversial Turkish dam halted by courts
• Bright blue lizard discovered in the rainforests of Vietnam
• Rare Slavonian grebe found dead in Inverness came from Iceland
• Zimbabwe releases captured elephants - Will elephants sent to China be forgotten?
• Social structure of elephant families altered by poaching
• Fishery owner claims that otters ate 22,000 carp! Sues Environment Agency
• New report from European Food Safety Authority deems neonicotinoid insecticides as a high risk to honeybees
• A potentially dangerous situation is developing in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park
• Leucistic mandarin duck in Yorkshire
• Australian heat wave could lead to mass die-offs of birds
• Spoon-billed sandpiper survival given hope by discovery of new site
• Brothers guilty of reckless disturbance of Northumberland wildlife sanctuary
• Scilly sea birds get big funding boost
• New species of unique burrowing lizard discovered in Madagascar
• Wildlife Extra joins forces with Wild Travel Magazine - Order a free copy today
• The wet summer of 2012 was very good for some butterflies - very bad for others
• 95% population decline in European eels spurs tracking research
• New research reveals that more than 10% of Welsh livestock farmers have killed badgers illegally
• Rare and spectacular spider find in 150 year-old tombs in London!
• 2 leucistic blackbirds in Herefordshire
• BTO cuckoos update
• Proposed de-listing of endangered southern resident orca threatens survival of the population
• Two tonnes of ivory seized at Mombasa
• New National Park declared in California to protect condors
• Phantom fishing nets endangering marine turtles in northern Australia
• Huge, green flying frog discovered in Vietnam
• New website tracks global ivory seizures and poaching incidents
• Ivory being laundered through Bangkok shops
• Survey highlights the danger of roads to Iran's endangered cheetah population
• Endangered Snares Island snipe doing well in new home
• Brutal attack on rhino calf in South Africa by poachers stuns rescue staff
• Rattlesnake Roundups 'Barbaric' entertainment
• Sustainable palm oil production - It can be done
• Very unusual colouration of a Silver Y moth
• Dugong found off India's north-west coast
• Leucistic bald eagle in north west USA
• Poachers shot dead in northern Kenya
• National Wildlife Crime Unit under threat for the price of 83 duck houses
• 12 orca trapped in ice in Hudson Bay
• Flooding - New guidance could help protect homes and business and benefit wildlife
• Crucial Portuguese wetland gets last minute reprieve from developers
• 'Angry birds' spotted in gardens
• 'Vicious' gamekeeper convicted of poisoning buzzards
• Britain's only resident orca pod – No breeding for 20 years
• Giant squid caught on video for the first time
• Cattle egret in Donegal
• Snow leopard photographed in India's Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time
• Three white rhinos poached on the Kruger National Park
• Save the Colca condors - Visit one of the most spectacular wildlife sights in the world
• Two Vietnamese men arrested and 10 rhino horns seized at Asian airports
• 4 juvenile elephants taken from Zimbabwe to sub-zero China - 1 dead already
• 12 elephants killed on Kenya's Tsavo National Park
• Glimmer of hope for Greece’s Loggerhead turtles
• Lions extinct in 25 African countries & populations in more trouble than previously thought
• Eight elephants killed by trains in 2 incidents in India
• Cheetahs in snow? See the video
• Four rhinos killed in Zimbabwe
• Long-beaked echidna, thought extinct in Australia since Ice Age, may still cling on in Kimberley
• Eleven leopards identified on proposed road route in Iran
• UK Mini Fish - Why our smaller freshwater species are in decline?
• Major concern raised over new Australian mega-fence as a threat to emus
• Inland seals
• A million birds saved in USA from chemical deaths
• Shell drilling rig runs aground off Alaska
• 2012 weather was great for slugs, bad for mammals - What thrived and what struggled?
• Barbaric 'fox penning' still legal in North Carolina