Wildlife News Articles From September 2006

• Rare chance to see a Kakapo.
• Cheshire Wildlife Trust urges marine consultation.
• Leatherback Turtle Research in Gabon.
• DEFRA gives eagles and ospreys extra protection.
• Desert wildlife under threat.
• Diverse Sea ‘Bugs,’ and Other Life Revealed on Landmark Atlantic Cruise to Census Zooplankton and Animals at Depths to 5 km.
• Colorado Lynx Reproduction Healthy During 2005.
• Five calves born to new 'pure' bison herd in Montana
• Many beetles in Britain have gone missing, possibly extinct.
• WWF Takes First-Ever Photo of Wild Rhino on Borneo
• Dolphins and whales of the Banffshire Coast.
• ‘Extinct’ Frog Rediscovered in Costa Rica
• South Island kokako declared extinct
• Rare Exmoor ponies to have new heathland home in Suffolk
• Heath Fritillary conservation on Exmoor
• New exotic pests colonising South West London
• Fisherman catches Europe's rarest fish
• The Indian National Board For Wildlife legislates to protect tigers, peacocks and jungle fowl.
• Maungatautari – creating an ecological treasure
• Rabies in endangered Ethiopian wolves cut by targeted vaccination programme
• Nearly 40 per cent of European freshwater fish species threatened with extinction
• One in six European mammals threatened with extinction
• Diego, a 100 year old tortoise, is still helping to repopulate the Galapagos island of Espanola.
• More oceanic sharks added to the 'Endangered' List
• 11 elephants killed in Chizarira National Park, 1 Black rhino in Hwange, Zimbabwe.
• Six of the world’s eight bear species are threatened with extinction
• Catching elephants for tourism, the arguments for and against.
• Hippo conservation on Lake Edward, and a tame hippo!
• Huge massacre of elephants in the Central African Republic: As many as 1000 elephants butchered.
• More than half of our Turtle Doves are missing
• Mammal species on the EDGE
• ZSL announces the first expeditions to save the weird and wonderful EDGE species
• EC acts at the last minute to stop illegal expressway construction in Poland
• Echo parakeet off the critical list thanks to conservation effort
• Hope for Critically Endangered Eastern Loggerhead Shrike
• White Tailed Eagle Killed in Angus
• Extraordinary Long-eared Jerboa filmed in the wild for the first time
• Dwarf buffalo remains disovered in the Philippines
• New species of Dwarf Manatee discovered in the Brazilian Amazon.
• First ever students awarded Graduate Certificate in Endangered Species Management
• Endangered Dugongs killed by driftnets in Abu Dhabi
• Dorset marine wildlife threatened by millions of plastic pellets
• Divers wanted for Dorset fish survey.
• Sand Lizards released in Dorset
• 20 Dorcas gazelles released in the wild in Senegal
• Fishing restrictions proposed to reduce endangered dolphin deaths in New Zealand
• Dead Dolphin had tail amputated.
• Dolphin 'Therapy' a Dangerous Fad, Researchers Warn
• Mediterranean shipping lanes moved to preserve dolphin populations.
• Man convicted of harassing dolphins on a jet ski.
• Two Common Dolphins returned to the sea after successful rescue on Cumbrian coast
• Dolphin slaughter in Japan
• Rare Greater horseshoe bats found in gold mine
• Rare divers on the increase in the UK, but not Europe.
• Healthy Coral Reefs Of Madagascar Resisting Damage From Climate Change
• DNA studies of bats and birds show that many species classicifations may be wrong
• Wildlife and bird watching in Devon
• Dingy Skipper butterfly colonises ex collieries in Nottinghamshire
• Derby Cathedral's Peregrine Falcons
• Desert crocodiles in the Sahara
• Devon Wetlands get funding boost