Wildlife News Articles From March 2007

• RSPB report on UK's most threatened birds
• US Army project foiled by Ivory-billed woodpecker.
• Huge haul of tiger and leopard skins found in Nepal.
• Two more rhinos arrive in Uganda from Disney.
• Tiger skin trade continues unabated in Tibet.
• Rare salt marsh endemics threatened.
• Tigers have disappeared from 40% of their range in the last 10 years.
• Squirrels and feral cats are the major threats to songbirds.
• The animals kingdom's longest migration award goes to the Sooty shearwater.
• Rare Sumatra Ground Cuckoo caught on camera in Sumatra
• Shahtoosh smugglers arrested in Thailand.
• Project Snow Leopard
• 200th White-tailed sea eagle chick hatches on Skye.
• SNH and RSPB look at possibility of a new Sea Eagle introduction project on the East coast of Scotland.
• Shark fin trade may harvest as many as 73 million sharks per year
• RSPB statement on Scottish peregrines
• Sixty more Sand lizards re-introduced to the sand dunes of north and west Wales.
• Scottish crossbill confirmed as an endemic species.
• Red squirrels threatened by virus
• Huge relocation of African wildlife undertaken by SANparks.
• Riparian brush rabbits
• Red kite trail helps local economy soar
• Endangered Western Pond turtles released in to the wild.
• Construction of ‘Via Baltica’ threatens key Polish wildlife habitats.
• Otter comeback is good news for water voles, bad news for mink.
• Peregrines set up base on the Tate Modern.
• Sperm whale probably killed by fishing line.
• Norwegian whale hunt 50% below expectations
• Orange-bellied Parrot and Christmas Island Pipistrelle bat listed as critically endangered
• Notorious tiger poacher arrested in Nepal
• Greenland’s narwhal hunters off the hook, again.
• New Minsmere heathland attracts rare Silver-studded blue butterfly
• ERUPTIONS DEVASTATE HILL FOREST HOME OF MONTSERRAT ORIOLES
• Nahanni National Reserve 'too small' for wildlife population.
• Millipede with the most legs is rediscovered after 80 years.
• Milky storks on the verge of extinction in Malaysia.
• Miami Blue butterfly, previously thought extinct, released into the wild.
• Lyme Bay Reefs devastated.
• Government U-turn prolongs destruction of valuable Lyme Bay coral reefs
• Marine reserves often work better when locally run than by governments or NGOs.
• Climate change threatens endangered lemurs in Madagascar.
• Ugandan rebels agree to protect endangered species.
• Red kites breed in North East England for the first time for 170 years.
• Leatherbacks considered extinct in Malaysia
• The Kouprey, one of the most famous zoological discoveries of the 20th century, may never have existed.
• Two tons of Ivory siezed in Taiwan
• More signs of the Ivory-billed woodpecker found.
• Success for Kemp's Ridley turtle conservation efforts.
• Whales entangled off Australia
• New species of bird discovered in India
• Australian charity taking Japanese whaling company to high court.
• Harriers and Peregrines being persecuted in Northern Ireland.
• Hen harriers numbers up, but persecution still rife.
• Gorillas to be re-homed on ‘island bachelor pad’.
• Starving seabirds being found across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• Feral goats and pigs exterminated from two largest Galapagos Islands
• Elephants don't like steep hills, apparently.
• Australian frogs create new species in record time
• Reward offered for Golden eagle killers.
• Dolphins in captivity
• Drought taking its toll on wildlife.
• Corncrake regains toehold in English countryside
• Two Clouded leopards sent to Cambodia from UK for reintroduction programme.
• Republic of Congo protects nearly 1,000,000 hectares.
• National Trust creates ‘bat flap’ for Lesser Horseshoe bats.
• Three rhinos killed in Nepal in July, over 100 in last 6 years.
• 100 elephants massacred in Chad.
• Deeside Capercaillie population stable.
• Sea birds returning to Canna
• Rare butterfly colony survives fire.
• Butterflies prefer some counties more than others.
• Black rhinos thriving again in Kenya
• Captive breeding success for most endangered lizard on earth
• Dirty bird feeders can kill wildlife.
• West African black rhino thought to be extinct
• 16 bird species saved from extinction 1994 - 2004.
• The Middle East's rarest bird fitted with satellite tags.
• Balloon releases endanger wildlife, especially at sea.
• Endangered Grand Cayman Blue Iguana Population Doubles
• Good news for Bowhead whales in the Arctic.
• More gray wolves released into Arizona.
• Asian vultures survival chances increased by drugs ban.