Wildlife News Articles From July 2006

• Cheetahs in Iran; the last stronghold of the Asiatic cheetah.
• New frog species discovered in Western Australia
• Ferrets sighted on the Chatham Islands could spell disaster for some of the world’s rarest birds.
• Call for urgent action after fishing vessel catches 12 critically endangered Chatham albatrosses
• Rare Sighting of Threatened Bottlenose Dolphins in English Channel
• Census of Marine Life
• First ever Blue Iguana hatchlings born from animals reintroduced to the wild
• Discovery of new cave millipedes casts light on Arizona cave ecology
• Conservation experts urge governments to work together to protect threatened Caribbean sea turtle populations.
• WWF to reintroduce leopards to the Caucasus
• Caribbean Corals in Danger of Extinction
• New EU countries wildlife habitat threatened by CAP
• Canada starts cull of 270,000 seals
• British Waterways Canal Wildlife Survey
• Nesting ground of rare giant soft shell turtle, not seen for 4 years, found in Cambodia.
• Captive dolphin shows in Sharm El Sheikh.
• Canada Gives Protection to More Than 10 Million Hectares
• Previously unknown vulture colony offers hope for species
• IFAW set to return four gorillas to Cameroon
• Caatinga Woodpecker rediscovered in Brazil after an 80 year absence.
• Whooper swan arrives back at Caerlaverock for Autumnwatch
• Seven more Californian condors to be released in Arizona
• Millions, perhaps billions, of 'By-the-wind sailors' wreck in the South-west.
• Australian fisheries could offset 'Bycatch' Losses with rat eradication
• Great Bustards in the UK
• Adonis unexpectedly reappears in the Cotswolds
• Butterflies mating unseasonably early, in Peterborough!
• Butterfly survey provides evidence of climate change
• Great Bustards nest again in UK after 175 years wait
• Large increase to UK butterflies on BAP list
• Bumblebee Survey
• Rediscovery Of The Recurve-Billed Bushbird (Clytoctantes Alixii)
• More than half of our Turtle Doves are missing
• London's Wildlifde Crime Unit threatened by budget cuts.
• Bukhara deer reintroduction
• UK Birds suffer major decline after dreadful summer weather
• First beaver seen in New York for 200 years
• Bruijn's brush turkey photographed for the first time.
• Summer downpours hit Broadland wildlife
• Brandon Marsh reed beds devastated by fire
• A New Population of De Brazza’s Monkey found in Kenya.
• Bottlenose dolphin stranding, Porthtowan, Cornwall.
• Iceland blocks ban on destructive fishing.
• Borneo Clouded leopards recognised as a distinct species
• Pregnant Bottlenose dolphin found dead on Cornish beach
• More than fifty new species found in Borneo in the last year.
• As many as 1000 Orangutans killed in forest fires.
• Why are Bonobos so laid back?
• Only breeding female Golden eagle in Scottish Borders poisoned.