Wildlife News Articles From December 2008

• Wildlife Photography - Short cuts for the lazy
• Boost for elephant and Grevy’s zebra numbers in Northern Kenya
• New populations of critically endangered Honduran emerald hummingbird discovered
• Asian coral reefs recovering strongly 4 years after the Tsunami
• 40% rise in New Zealand sea lion bycatch quota condemned by Forest & Bird
• Perija parakeet research discovers roost site
• 99% call for urgent action to protect seals
• Invasive species threatening wildlife of South Georgia
• Unpredictable UK weather bad for wildlife in 2008
• Amphibian reserve launched in Colombia
• 15 fishers released into Washington State National Park
• Endangered Kaka breed on Maungatautari
• Sea Shepherd harassing and chasing Japanese whaling fleet
• Virunga Mountain Gorillas seen by rangers for first time in over a year
• World's biggest Birdwatch gears up for 30th anniversary
• 70 kiwi killed by dogs in New Zealand.
• Forgotten Mozambique forest yields 3 new species of butterfly and a new snake
• Dancing bears to be removed from India’s streets by 2010
• Leucistic robin on London’s Hampstead Heath
• Mount Grace Priory stoats predict a cold winter.
• New York City Beaver Returns
• Seychelles conservation success story – Cousin Island
• Look after your Robin this Christmas
• Major species close to extinction – 9 to watch in 2009
• Snowy owl tracking discovers unsuspected behaviour – Winter on the icepack
• Green-blood and turquoise bones. Very unusual new species of frog discovered in Cambodia
• Surrey bat survey finds Natterer’s, Noctule, Brown long-eared and Soprano pipistrelles
• European wildlife targets ‘unlikely’ to be met
• Corncrake recovery stalls as numbers drop in 2008
• Grand Canyon breeding ground for condors
• Golf course: wildlife sanctuary or desert?
• What determines clutch size? Tropical birds lay fewer eggs
• Abseiling rangers create new peregrine eyrie in Kielder
• More than 1000 new species have been discovered in the rivers, jungles, markets and restaurants of the Greater Mekong in the last 10 years
• £200 reward for Basking shark satellite tag from St Ives beach
• Wigeon, teal, plover and lapwing move into new wetlands at Welney
• Bush administration further weakens Endangered Species Act in final days
• 2,000 elephants missing from Chad National Park
• UK company to dig coal in rich habitat in South Africa
• Dunsdon National Nature Reserve expansion a boost for butterflies
• Brown hyenas reintroduced to Mountain Zebra National Park
• The European eel - To migrate or not to migrate in freshwaters?
• DNA tests show that there are at least three species of African dwarf crocodiles
• Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies
• North Atlantic right whale gets some protection at last
• Killer mice eating albatross population into extinction
• 7 mountain gorillas die of natural causes.
• Garden birds use nest boxes all winter – if they are in the right place
• Greenpeace protest against whaling and Human Rights breaches
• Soaring migratory bird deaths in Egypt
• Protest in Turkey against the Ilisu Dam
• Darryl Hannah joins Sea Shepherd heading to Antarctic to defend the whales
• Six arrested for smuggling African elephant ivory through JFK international airport
• Carmel National Nature Reserve wins £45,000 from public vote
• Rhinos translocated and released in Manas National Park - Rhinos poached in Nepal and South Africa
• 21 migratory species listed as endangered
• New population of endangered Fiji ground frog rediscovered on Viti Levu
• Huge new population of Irrawaddy dolphins discovered in Bangladesh – Other dolphins get extra protection
• Report stranded marine animals in Devon & Cornwall
• Satellite tracking a Sooty falcon migration from west Abu Dhabi to Madagascar
• Newly discovered bat species - Naming rights auction
• Philippines Department of Tourism announces support for wetlands and wildlife conservation
• Historic feathered airshow under threat
• GrantScape Launches £1.6 million Biodiversity Fund
• How will migrant species be affected by climate change?
• Rare moth reintroduction a success – with cows help
• 18 seal pups clubbed to death– man charged
• UK Populations of harbour seals in steep decline
• Huge pod of Bottlenose dolphins seen off the Isle of Man.
• Mediterranean loggerhead turtles - 2 distinct populations
• Search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker starts anew
• Media paying lip service to conservation issues
• Partnership will help kakapo conservation until 2020
• New population discovered of one of the world’s rarest primates – The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
• Last ditch search launched for Europe’s rarest bird.
• Ocean noise poses grave threat to marine mammals
• UK basking shark hotspots - Urgent protection needed
• UK Government announces a marine bill - Reaction
• Paul O’Grady (AKA Lilly Savage) bitten by an adder
• Are sea eagles the cause of high lamb mortality?
• Endangered dolphins being mutilated in New Zealand
• New study shows bird population estimates may be seriously flawed
• Humpback whales' dining habits revealed
• Dolphin population stunted by fishing activities despite anti bycatch measures
• EU set to miss wildlife target
• Ultralight Migration Leads 14 Endangered Whooping Cranes over Kentucky
• First comprehensive “inventory” of life in Antarctica finds islands richer than the Galapagos
• Machair under threat
• New Theory for How Salmon, Sea Turtles Find Their Birthplace
• Protests to windfarm planned in Golden eagle territory
• Scottish Beaver trial granted £1 million from Biffaward – Is this good use of the money?
• Prompt action needed to preserve Pacific tuna fisheries
• Blue and Sperm whale sightings off southern Sri Lanka
• Oystercatchers dyed yellow to help tracking