Wildlife News Articles From June 2009

• More golden eagle chicks to be sent from Scotland for Ireland reintroduction
• Harlequin ladybird invasion could endanger 1000 native UK species
• Pollutants causing a surge of cancer in wild animals
• 1000 Sandwich terns settle at Minsmere
• Wildlife charity boat stolen during swan rescue
• Leucistic crow in Ontario
• First lynx kittens in Colorado for three years
• Wild captured elephants held captive at Sondelani ranch to be released
• Two New Frogs Discovered in Western Australia
• Great crested newt survey in Wiltshire
• Basking shark births witnessed for the first time
• Wildlife skyscraper wins design award
• Three Spix macaws, one of the world’s rarest birds, hatched in captivity
• Southern damselflies released into Devon nature reserve
• IWC Whale meeting agrees climate change fudge – Ducks whaling issues
• Third of open ocean sharks threatened with extinction
• Norway suspends whaling
• Swifts are missing – Have you got any near you?
• Small whales’ plight ignored by conservation community
• £20 million whale watching industry in Scotland threatened by Norwegian whaling?
• Whale watching industry worth $2.1 billion in 2008 – Growing fast
• Paradise-flycatcher breeds on second island for first time in 60 years
• 20,000 humpbacks start migration up Australia’s west coast
• Three chicks spotted in Kielder osprey nest
• Nairobi National Park gets some rain, but northern Kenya is still bone dry
• Garden moth count 2009
• Scilly Island underwater survey turns up rare sponges, corals, slugs and anemones
• Water voles to return to inner London river?
• New species of phallus-shaped mushroom named after California academy of sciences scientist
• Scientific breakthrough will allow accurate tiger counts
• Peregrines at the Tate Modern
• Java leopard released back into the wild after release from snare
• Pond survey shows tap water bad for ponds
• All of the world’s threatened species on one list - Nearly
• Scottish shark research raises concerns about the lack of sharks in Scotland
• Thailand a hub for growing illegal ivory trade
• Wild whooping crane chick hatches at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge
• Oystercatchers in Herefordshire
• Golden eagle poisoned in West Scotland
• Huge government subsidies for Norway & Japan whaling industries
• Mekong dolphins on the brink of extinction
• Iceland urged to call off slaughter of endangered whales
• How much does a beaver cost? That depends on when you wanted to reintroduce them.
• Denmark requests a quota of 50 Humpback whales for ‘subsistence whaling’
• Big Oil still refusing to act to save some of world’s rarest whales
• Elephants calves being trained for reintroduction into the wild in India - You can help
• Rare pine hoverfly to be reintroduced to the Cairngorms
• Major new project launch to save rare Small blue butterfly
• Scientists discover a host of new species in remote mountains of Ecuador
• New population of endangered Shore Plover created off the west coast of New Zealand
• One in ten participants in new RSPB survey see badgers
• Game count from Nairobi National Park
• 33,000 sharks, 2000 dolphins & 2000 turtles killed to boost beach tourism in South Africa
• Six meetings – No decisions. Classic committee meetings as tuna stocks are decimated
• Seal hunt in Canada to close some 200,000 short of target
• Large Blue butterfly officially saved – How did they do it?
• Dramatic worldwide decline in caribou/reindeer numbers
• New Zealand Fishermen taking minister to court for protecting endangered dolphins!
• Buffalo, white rhino, Cape mountain zebra, giraffe and antelope in South Africa auction
• Hawaiian Monk seal protection – New areas designated as critical habitat
• Huge rains force capture and relocation of African hunting dogs from Lake Kariba Island
• Loggerhead Sea turtle rescued from intake pump
• World Bank withdraws funding for Amazon deforestation
• Sulawesi crested black macaques relisted as critically endangered
• New Zealand's top pest buster kills 234 possums, 204 rats, 69 mice, 14 hedgehogs, 6 stoats and 3 weasels in a year
• President Mcaleese opens Birdwatch Ireland’s East Coast Nature Reserve to the public
• Marsh fritillaries thriving on Devon nature reserve
• UK seabird numbers crash – Scotland hardest hit
• National Trust re-surveys Cornwall farm again 30 years on
• Vulnerable forest red-tailed black cockatoos released into wild
• Ospreys breed in Northumberland for first time in over two centuries
• New species of pink winged moth discovered in Arizona mountains
• Rare heathland protected as huge housing development denied permission
• Peregrine chick hatches ride on Manchester’s big wheel
• More skins being burned in Tibet as conservation message spreads
• Complex Caribbean coral reefs virtually extinct
• Lear’s Macaw no longer critically endangered
• Study on Papua New Guinea’s long-beaked echidna reveals elusive habits
• Snow leopards caught on film in Afghanistan
• Florida panther shot dead - $15,000 reward offered
• “Vulture restaurant” opened in Pakistan in an effort to save Asian vultures
• Tiny transmitters inserted into Black-tailed godwits
• Wader populations declining faster than ever
• First osprey chick in living memory for Dumfriesshire - Caerlaverock
• Maungatautari kiwi calling for mates as the mating season starts
• Epic rescue of around 60 elephants begins in Malawi
• Afghanistan releases it’s first-ever list of protected species
• RSPB launches summer garden wildlife survey – Not just birds
• Blue tits nesting in ‘acoustic art’ – Go and listen to the chicks in the Cotswolds
• 100 trucks worth of illegal timber seized from Philippines last old growth forests
• Komodo dragons use venom and not septicaemia to kill prey
• Osprey at Leighton Moss – Born in Lake District
• Hunter who shot lesser spotted eagle on Malta convicted
• Garden birds need your help in constant battle to feed chicks
• How will global warming affect whales & dolphins?
• Unique and new species thriving around erupting undersea volcano
• Common lizard population found in Wigan
• What is happening to the UK’s African migrant birds? Why are they declining so fast? Can you help?
• A Brighter future for the critically endangered Niceforo’s Wren
• Another leucistic elephant seal from the Southern Oceans
• Tiny Australian bat to go extinct within a year
• Ecologist goes underground in hunt for one of UK's largest spiders
• Seven cetacean species seen off the north of Scotland
• The First Great Bustard chicks hatch in the UK for 177 years
• Snake lizard rediscovered after 111 years in Australia
• Blue whale discovered singing in New York coastal waters for the first time
• First fishers born in Washington since reintroduction began
• Mosquito evolution spells trouble for Galapagos wildlife
• African nature reserves essential for saving species as climate changes
• Huge numbers of Painted lady butterflies migrate across UK
• 10 new colonies of Emperor penguins discovered using space images
• Four of the world’s rarest tortoises stolen from Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust