Wildlife News Articles From May 2007

• Four Kiwi killed by a ferret
• Five Rhinos Killed in the Kruger National Park, Three Poachers Arrested.
• Some of the World’s Richest Marine Life Threatened by Copper Mining
• Mayhem and anarchy reign in Maltese countryside - BirdLife Malta
• Japanese Whaling Fleet Return to Port
• Walkers in Scotland urged to look for Ptarmigan
• Two plant species thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in Far North Queensland.
• Satellite Tagging Deep-Sea Sharks
• Illegal Shipment Of Amazonian Timber Seized In Brazil
• Is the Sharp Decline Harbour Seal Populations Around Scotland Caused by Killer Whales?
• Nearly Extinct Giant Turtle Found in Northern Vietnam
• Extinct Javan elephants may have been rediscovered – in Borneo
• Huge Decline in Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Number Baffles Scientists
• Solar Insect Theatre - What's in the Box?
• Indian Lions Moving out of Gir Sanctuary
• Mapping Ireland’s Birds - Bird Atlas 2007-11
• Birdwatch Ireland 2007
• Yellow Wagtails Prefer Spuds to Beans
• Huge Project to Create New Wildlife Habitat in Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire
• Advice on How to Manage Wild Elephant Populations & Richard Leakey’s Thoughts on Elephant Culling.
• Egg Thief Convicted Over Massive Haul of Wild Bird Eggs
• Peacock Butterfly Spreading Across Scotland, Spotters Required.
• White 'Leucistic' Buzzard Seen In Austria
• 5 Kakapo chicks hatch, 2 More Expected
• Kakapo chicks relocated to hand rearing facility to maximise survival
• Unconfirmed Sighting of 'Extinct' South Island Kokako Sparks Search
• Legislation To Protect Horseshoe Crabs & Red Knots in New Jersey
• Marriott Golf Courses to Become Audubon Wildlife Sanctuaries
• River Quaggy flows again, in Greenwich.
• Robot to be used in search for Ivory-billed woodpecker
• Ribbon Seals Endangered by loss of Arctic Sea Ice
• One of the world’s most beautiful parrots re-introduced to Cook Islands
• Breeding success for Javan Rhino
• Three more rhinos killed in Chitwan National Park.
• 3 black rhinos butchered in Zimbabwe, appeal launched and reward offered.
• Two black rhinos from the UK to be released onto the Serengeti
• Rare Borneo rhino captured on video for the first time.
• Wildlife and bird watching in Surrey
• £7000 for a Rhino or a Buffalo
• Marine research expedition finds severe damage to coral reefs from rising sea temperatures off Madagascar.
• Gorillas re-introduced into the wild produce off-spring.
• Some reef fish populations are on the verge of extinction due to the Life Reef Fish Trade.
• More birds than ever face extinction
• You will very shortly arrive at the Remembird website
• You will shortly be taken to the Wildlife Worldwide Website.
• RED KITE PERSECUTION IN SCOTLAND
• Red Kite reintroduction, and the threat from poisons.
• Red knot numbers plummet by 70 percent in 3 years
• The Humane Society of the United States Calls for Halt to Rattlesnake Roundups
• First ever photos of the Recurve-billed Bushbird
• Wildlife Crime Unit seize fur coats in London
• Rat removal boosts Eleonora's falcon and other species.
• Very rare and unusual sea species discovered off Scotland's west coast.
• Mai Mai rebels kill another park ranger in the DRC
• Another Ranger killed in Virunga, rebels threaten to kill gorillas.
• Congo Ranger shot and killed because he was trying to protect wildlife from armed poachers.
• Large Blue Butterfly spreading, thanks to the railways.
• Critically Endangered Pygmy Hog Upgraded as a Unique Evolutionary Line
• Durrell to return critically endangered Pygmy Hogs to Indian grasslands
• Worst year on record for Queensland marine strandings
• Climate change causes the extinction of the ‘Purple Snail’.
• Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants: WWF
• Vast area of Brazilian rainforest protected.
• Primates in Peril - 25 most threatened species of primate
• Princess Cruise Lines pay $750,000 over the death of a Humpback whale in Alaska.
• Barn owl wins ‘Most Popular’ vote.
• Europe's Dirty Thirty , the most polluting power stations.
• Poland officially warned over Via Baltica road plans
• Construction suspended on Polish road building scheme
• Polar bears of Churchill, Canada.
• 13 arrested in Kenya for poaching
• Chitwan rhino massacre continues
• Rhino poaching on the increase in Africa.
• Tony Blair backs ban on wild bird imports.
• Durrell to return captive-bred ploughshare tortoises to the wild