Wildlife News Articles From May 2006

• A day in the life of.......... RSPB warden at Abernethy Reserve
• A day in the life of.......... A virtual whale watch guide
• A day in the life of..........A Conservation Project Manager, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
• Where to see Glow worms in the UK
• A day in the life of.........A Reserves Officer (South and West reserves), Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
• Migrant Hawker dragonfly
• Hummingbird Hawkmoth
• A Day in the life of...... A birding tour leader
• May bug - Cockchafer beetle
• Southern Hawker Dragonfly
• Emperor dragonfly
• A day in the life of..........Sea Watch Foundation Sightings Officer
• A Day in the life of...... A professional photographic expedition leader
• A day in the life of - Whale watch guide Nic Slocum
• Broad-bodied chaser
• Brown Argus butterfly
• Wildlife Extra South Australia Competiton
• African White-ringed Atlas Moth
• Herald Moth
• Major expansion of military exercise threatens Scotland’s only ‘protected’ dolphin population
• Harlequin ladybirds
• Grey squirrel control to be stepped up to boost red squirrels
• Railway helps to restore wetlands to New Forest
• Episyrphus balteatus
• Flesh Fly
• Rutpela Strangulata
• Common 7 spot ladybird
• Common blue damselflies
• Common Darter dragonfly
• Scorpion fly
• Common Swift Moth
• White butterflies
• Elephant Hawk Moth & Caterpillar
• Purple thorn moth
• Large Emerald Moth
• Banded Demoiselle
• Large Skipper Butterfly
• Vestal moth
• The benefit of wildlife tourism - SOS Children’s Village weekend at Pilanesberg
• Northern bald ibis return to Syria from their wintering grounds in Ethiopia.
• First Condor egg laid in Baja California for 70 years.
• Bald Eagle Removed from Endangered Species List
• Hope fading for the world’s rarest mammal
• Ospreys in the Bahamas
• Badger culling completely fails to control bovine TB
• BOVINE TB: INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC GROUP PUBLISHES FINAL REPORT
• Wildlife smuggler caught with over 170 animals in Cambodia.
• 14 spot yellow ladybird
• Bad weather hits British wildlife
• Two Black rhinos and three poachers killed in Kenya.
• 16,119 species now listed as threatened with extinction
• Two Kruger guides appear in court
• Conservationists “Outraged” By Massive Illegal Ivory Haul in Hong Kong
• Bardia’s rhinos and tigers in danger
• Butterfly numbers in the UK in steep decline
• Nepal’s endangered rhinos down a third since 2000
• US Great Backyard Bird Count sets new records
• Baby bats under threat from wet weather
• Spectacular start to the autumn bird migration; details from the BTO.
• Northern Bald ibis project - Austria.
• Auckland Islands to be cleared of cats and pigs.
• Study of Pristine Ghanaian Forest reveals new, rare and threatened species
• ‘Lost’ Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered in Papua
• Endangered black rhinos return to Tanzania
• India’s last few lions being targeted by poachers.
• New species of tree discovered in Scotland
• Lord Ashcroft commissions Caribbean advertising campaign against whaling
• Four Arnoux’s Beaked Whales observed from Polarstern expedition
• Seven new butterflies recorded at National Trust site in ten years
• Whooping crane numbers the highest for 100 years.
• Aquatic warbler wintering sites found for the first time
• Aquatic warbler migration
• Arabian Oryx reintroduced into Abu Dhabi after 40 year absence.
• New UK marine record as Apolemia found off Cornwall
• Apo Reef Spared from Predator Starfish
• Apo Reef closes for fishing, opens for tourism.
• Penguins being forced south by Antarctic warming
• 51 albatrosses killed on a single fishing trip
• Good news for the rare Aplomado falcons.
• Hundreds of new marine species discovered in the Antarctic
• Wildlife Trust appeals for help to create wetland haven
• Woodland Trust needs help finding ancient trees.
• Amwell Quarry Appeal
• Amur tiger numbers on the increase
• Amur leopard still on the brink of extinction
• Dire news as one of only 7 or 8 female Amur leopards is shot dead.
• An Amur leopard, the world’s rarest big cat, given health check
• Amphibian Crisis, Amphibian Ark and the 2008 Year of the Frog Campaign
• Amphibians may be declining by 25,000 times the background rate of extinciton.
• How to help British amphibians this spring
• Minke whale strands 1500 kilometres up the Amazon River
• Brown bears face extinction in the Alps.
• Deep sea studies find 'New continent' and species in Atlantic
• A big flood on the Humber, and it’s good news for wildlife.
• Alibaba.com selling wildlife products including shark fins
• Alligator eats deer in South Georgia, photos.
• New Zealand working other countries to protect endangered albatrosses and petrels
• Is this the only albino ratfish ever seen?
• Rare ‘Pink (Albino) Dolphin’ sighted in USA - Photos
• Albatross chicks being eaten alive by mice.
• Millions of swallows saved by new radar system
• Protection sought for 2 endangered birds in Hawaii
• Vulture-killing drug found on sale in Africa
• Blueprint for Tiger conservation released by 12 range states
• Red kites return to Aberdeen
• RSPB Scotland to blow up trees in aid of conservation.
• Extinct parrot specimen found in Aberdeen
• Mountain gorilla numbers up by six percent.