Wildlife News Articles From June 2008

• Chris Packham - It is time to let the Panda go?
• Disappearing penguins set alarm bells ringing in the world’s oceans
• Scientists to study elusive beaked whales in Biscay – “Diver 2008 project”
• US authorities criticise EU Bluefin tuna management - Despite fishery closure
• Identifying Marine Ecotourism Opportunities in Timor-Leste
• Huge genome-scale phylogenetic study of birds rewrites evolutionary tree-of-life
• First beaver dam in England for hundreds of years
• Florida unveils $2bn. plan to increase Florida Everglades by 300 square miles
• African Elephant Coalition in Strategic Ivory Trade Meeting
• World Heritage Sites in danger - Galapagos, Everglades & Virunga.
• ‘Extinct’ plant, rediscovered after 200 years, could be lost again within 10 years
• New population of Greater Adjutant stork, world’s rarest, booming in India
• Project reduces elephant deaths on Indian railway line to zero
• Unverifiable observations hinder successful conservation of wildlife species
• Rare dragonfly breeding on the Kennet & Avon Canal for the first time
• US acts to cut Atlantic shark quotas and prohibit removal of shark fins at sea
• Three peregrine chicks stolen from nest.
• Ecological wasteland to be cleared of rat infestation
• Two bittern nests found in Somerset
• “Flag of convenience” ships pillaging the oceans
• Major Kenyan wetlands to be sacrificed for biofuels
• Corncrake reintroduction success
• Sustainable farming awards – Finalists announced
• World’s largest Cape gannet colony opens for 1 day visit for the first time
• New species of bird discovered in China
• US Coastguard taken to court over Blue whale protection
• DEFRA announces protection for Lyme Bay Reefs - one of the UK’s top marine wildlife sites
• Namibia rhino hunt controversy
• Landowners in Mississippi paid to provide black bear habitat
• Giant clams released into the wild in the Philippines
• EU closes bluefin tuna fishery early
• Second batch of Sea eagle chicks to be released in Eastern Scotland
• Shetland Nature Festival with Simon King
• 60% decline in Fulmar numbers in Scotland
• Kent man caught with 24 elephant tusks
• Is Greenland’s “subsistence” whaling a profit making scam?
• House Martins in decline? Help survey them.
• RSPB hopes to create the largest chalk downland network in Europe
• Crocodile populations down by 75% in some parts of Australia after Cane toads arrive
• Study identifies migratory movements of humpback whales
• June 2008. Early success in protecting native animals from roads and traffic
• Elephant and rhino poaching in Zimbabwe
• Africa Rhinos numbers up but Northern white rhino may be extinct
• Another new bird species from Colombia
• Critically endangered albatross thrown a lifeline by longline regulations
• Satellite images of Africa illustrate the dire state of the continents habitats
• Guanaco migration to be tracked with radio collars
• Chinese “Animal parks” openly selling illegal tiger bone wine
• Black-tailed Godwit & other wader chicks wiped out in Ouse Washes floods
• Captive release trial provides new hope for endangered Regent honeyeater
• North Pacific Humpback whale numbers rebound 1000%
• New scientific study shows shark numbers in the Mediterranean have crashed by 99%
• Climate change hastens extinction in Madagascar's reptiles and amphibians
• 119 tons of ivory about to be auctioned?
• Mass dolphin stranding in Cornwall - at least 26 dolphins dead
• Papua New Guinea forests being trashed unsustainably
• Scottish island declared rat-free after 3 year rat eradication programme
• Scientists call for urgent action to prevent loggerhead turtle disaster
• Orphaned peregrines given new foster families and homes
• Last few pests being targeted on Maungatautari Ecological Island
• Leucistic Egyptian goose seen at Slimbridge
• Safe zone for created for Northern Right Whales
• Brazil protects vast new areas of Amazon rainforest
• Killer Whales Spotted in Abu Dhabi Waters
• Pilot whales -Cheetahs of the Deep
• 500 ducks killed by Canadian oil drilling waste
• Caribbean Monk seal officially declared extinct
• Very rare and elusive moth re-discovered by accident in the Scottish Highlands.
• Illegal Italian spotter planes caught hunting down Mediterranean bluefin tuna
• Spate of crocodile deaths in Kruger puzzles ecologists
• Seven endangered California condors poisoned by lead, one dead
• Rare Hoolock gibbon released into Kaziranga National Park – pairs up with wild male
• Hen harrier is England’s “most threatened bird of prey” - official
• Expedition Launched to Save Threatened Bird Life of Fragile Phoenix Islands, Kiribati
• World's rarest rhinos filmed for first time - Attacks camera
• American writer wanted in Nepal in connections with wildlife and archaeological crimes
• Emergency grant to maintain poaching patrols in Kenya's Tsavo park.
• Britain’s rarest spider makes comeback, and eats mother.
• New whale watch centre opens in South Australia
• Rare dual sex moth emerges at the Natural History Museum
• Scottish Government gives go ahead for beaver reintroduction
• UK’s largest puffin colony numbers down by 30%
• Many sharks edging towards extinction
• 10 most endangered U.S. Wildlife Refuges threatened by politics
• Chilean President Proposes Whaling Ban, Whale Sanctuary
• 245 Million-year-old Burrows of Land Vertebrates found in Antarctica
• New butterfly species declared in Israel.
• Chinese gibbon species declared extinct.
• Leucistic Great tit
• 21 year old owl breaking records in Kielder
• Six Hen harrier chicks hatch in Northumberland.
• World agrees Biodiversity is vital, but disappearing – Does nothing.
• Peregrines trapped and killed in Midlands
• Northern tip of Britain to be managed by RSPB