Wildlife News Articles From March 2008

• Specially trained dog tracks rat on rodent free island
• First Osprey Arrives Back at Loch Garten - EJ is back for the 6th Year
• Nomads of the Wind and Other Wonders of the Butterfly World - Photographic Story of the Monarch Butterfly Migration
• National Trust Coastal Wildlife Walks
• Conserving Biodiversity is a Major Business Opportunity, Say IUCN and Shell
• Northumberland's Wildlife Habitats Show Improvement
• 13 Rare Maud Island Froglets Born in the Wild
• How to prevent a Repeat of 2003 When 20,000 Musk Ox Starved to Death
• Elephant Population in Kenya’s Tsavo Climbs 4 Percent to 11,700
• USA Great Backyard Bird Count Results
• Antarctic Research Voyage Discovers New & Outsized Species
• RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch - 2008 Results
• Unusual Fish Sparks Hope for Coral Reef Generation
• Light Pollution Is a Serious Problem for Rare Seabirds in Malta
• A New Species of Shrew Described in Sri Lanka
• Laos Elephants in Crisis - Wild & Domestic
• The Good Safari Guide Awards 2008 - Winners announced
• Aerial Survey in Niger Desert Finds 70 Addax
• Police Raid Scottish Shooting Estate
• Rediscovered Bermuda Petrel returns to Nonsuch Island (Bermuda) after 400 year Absence
• £25m project ‘Butterfly World’ project launched to help reverse 76 percent decline in UK butterfly species
• Three White Rhino Poached in South Africa
• First Photos of Rare Mouse-Deer - Is it a New Species?
• Wildlife Official Arrested for Gorilla Massacre
• Help for Europe’s rarest breeding bird
• Satellite Tracking Africa's Elephants
• 214 Environmental Organisations Lobby New Zealand Government Over Rare Dolphins
• World’s Biggest Kiwi Hanging on Around Arthur’s Pass
• First Evidence of Otters in Central Surrey for 40 Years
• 14 Elephants Speared Near Amboselli - 4 Die
• Reforestation Effort to Link Isolated Chimps to Distant Forest in Rwanda
• Endangered Mongolian Antelope Threatened by Migration Bottleneck
• Have You Seen a Siskin? The BTO Needs to Know.
• Shamwari, Sanbona & Jock Bought by Dubaii
• First Ospreys of 2008 Arrive Back in the UK
• Snowy Owl seen in the Cairngorm Mountains.
• Leatherback Turtle Nesting Threatened By Logging Practices in Gabon
• 30,000 Birdwatchers Start Mapping Britain and Ireland's Birds
• 2007 Wet Weather Good News for New Forest Waders
• Rhino Conservation To Spread To New Countries
• New Reserve Created in Colombia to Protect the Helmeted Curassow
• 17 Loggerhead Turtles Strand Since January
• Alaska Wolves to be Shot in an Effort to Preserve Caribou
• New Bird Species Discovered on Indonesian Island
• Rare White Killer Whale Spotted in Alaskan Waters
• Ravens making a comeback to the East Midlands.
• Mediterranean Tuna Being Edged Towards Extinction by Huge Overcapacity and Corruption
• Black-tailed Godwit Protection. RSPB Needs Volunteers.
• Orphaned Black Bears Released into the Wild in India
• Cane Toads Inexorable March Across Australia Decimating Wildlife
• Female Rhino Calf Released into Manas National Park, India
• Critically Endangered Harlequin Frog Rediscovered in Remote Region of Colombia
• Devon Gets 94 New Wildlife Sites
• Studies Show Alarming Insect-eating Bird Declines in Canada
• Japanese Whaling - IWC Conference, Shootings, Protests, Rancid Butter and the end of the Season
• Rare Australian Snubfin Dolphin Research Launched
• Stoat Trapping to be Extended to Protect Rare New Zealand Birds
• First Wolverine in California for 90 Years
• Four More California Condors Released into the Wild
• White-tailed Sea Eagle Spreading Across Scotland
• Peregrines Moving Into Cities
• The first ever cheetah born in Mountain Zebra National Park
• Pygmy Hippos Survive Two Civil Wars in Liberia's Sapo National Park
• Seabird, Not Seen For 80 Years, Photographed off Papua New Guinea
• Wild animal and pet trade
• 1500 Acre Reserve Created to Protect Critically Endangered Fuertes's Parrot - Once Thought Extinct
• 24 Hour Protection for Hen Harriers in 2008
• Cannock Forest Being Managed for Rare Butterflies
• Don’t Collect or Move Frogspawn – Disease and Invasive Species Spread.
• Major Effort to Preserve the Wildlife of the Sahara
• Scimitar Horned Oryx to be Reintroduced to Tunisia
• New Maps Reveal Cumbria’s Wind Farm Sensitive Zones
• Vitally Important Peat Bogs in Belarus Receive Protection
• Derisory Penalty for Falcon Slaughterers in Cyprus
• Race Against Time to Save Tasmanian Devils From Extinction
• Madagascar’s Tortoises & Turtles Edging Towards Extinction
• Mangrove Forests Vanishing at an ‘Alarming’ Rate
• 5 Skins of Rare Clouded Leopard Seized in India
• New Regulations to Protect Albatrosses From Bycatch Deaths
• Mystery Disease Has Killed 10,000+, Bats in USA, 500,000 Threatened
• Plastic Bags & Rubbish Killing Whales and Other Marine Life.
• How to Build a Pond in the 'Year of the Frog'
• Scottish Wildcat Survey launched
• Sociable Lapwings with Satellite Tag Tracked to Sudan
• Kakapo Breeding Season Off To a Strong Start