Wildlife News Articles From July 2009

• Huge 17-foot Burmese python caught in Florida
• New colony of critically endangered Galapagos Petrels found on Isabela Island
• Lonesome George tries again – 5 eggs laid
• New species of ‘bald’ bird discovered in Laos
• Smooth snakes to be reintroduced to Devon
• Tusker is killed in Kerala – Poacher arrested
• Leucistic American Robin
• Two convicted for hare coursing in Yorkshire
• Eight species reported in UK national whale and dolphin watch week
• 20 Arabian Oryx released into Wadi Rum in Jordan
• Birds in cities get a lie in due to extra warmth
• Tweed Valley osprey chick falls from nest
• NZ Sea lion death toll in squid nets jumps 57%
• First rhino birth in Uganda for 28 years.
• Brutal Namibian seal hunt caught on film – Journalists attacked
• Northern Bald ibis fitted with satellite tags – Conservation funding boost
• 2007 Sichuan earthquake caused major damaged to Giant panda habitat
• One sixth of all freshwater crab species are threatened with extinction
• Critically endangered white-shouldered ibis benefits from human intervention
• 9-foot Burmese python on first day of Florida extermination program
• Remains of at least three tigers found in taxi in Vietnam
• Cats and dogs attacking wildlife - Bats, swans and deer
• Birdwatching contributed $36 billion to US economy in 2006
• A billion butterflies about to hatch in the UK
• Otters thriving in the UK - Now in every county
• £1,000 prize for the best UK ponds and backyard wetlands
• 3 White beaked dolphins rescued in the Hebrides
• Florida launches a program to exterminate invasive Florida pythons
• New wildlife habitat created in the heart of London
• Newly discovered 11,000 mile dragonfly migration by far the longest of any insect
• Colombia hippo update – Government temporarily bans hippo killing
• World’s rarest deer found alive and well on Philippine islands
• Critically endangered Chinese alligators breeding in the wild after reintroduction
• Britain’s smallest bird, the Goldcrest, is booming
• Peregrine falcon delisted as an endangered species in Florida
• Aral Sea drastic decline continues
• US Electric company guilty of killing 232 eagles – Must pay $10.5 million
• New technology provides automatic whale detection system for ships
• Bird watchers and wildlife viewers boost Florida’s economy by $3 billion per year
• Stowaway threat to New Zealand’s island sanctuaries
• Widespread bird paralysis in the Baltic caused by Thiamine deficiency
• Water snake that frightens fish into its mouth
• $1,000 reward offered for Slender-billed curlew photos
• Python thieves caught as it had eaten rare animal and tracking device!
• Big cat hunting has disproportionate affect on populations
• Auckland conservation boost to kokako numbers
• Leucistic mourning dove
• Hebridean Orca pod spotted off Western Ireland
• Important Bird Areas in China – New directory
• Victory for wildlife as ‘Eco-town’ is abandoned
• Cuckoos in Wales bucking the trend and thriving
• 30 tigers killed in Panna Tiger Reserve in 2 years – None left
• Last batch of 36 Red kites to be released in Aberdeenshire
• Rhino horns and ivory seized in Kenya en route to Asia
• 65% of European habitat under threat – 0.1% of EU budget for conservation
• Kielder osprey chicks ringed and weighed - Photos
• World Bank urges end to tiger farming
• Critically endangered Jerdon’s Courser study launched – Needs your help
• Mull sea eagle chicks dies
• Pangolin populations plummet as poaching and illegal trade intensifies
• Colombian Government starts ‘removing’ feral hippopotamuses
• Seals quickly respond to gain and loss of habitat under climate change
• Wildlife crisis worse than economic crisis – IUCN
• Coral Reefs exposed to imminent destruction from climate change
• Kenya wildlife down by 40% - Community tourism protects species better than National Parks
• New species of monkey discovered in the Amazon Basin
• Watch the wildlife at Turnberry
• Camera trap catches Sumatra tiger
• Garten osprey chicks satellite tagged
• Poaching boom is once again threatening the world’s rhinos
• New species & genus of salamander found in the USA
• New geyser erupts in Kamchatka
• India may reintroduce cheetahs
• Young Kakapo recovering in hospital
• US-Mexico border wall could threaten wildlife species
• Sri Lanka - The growing whale watching hotspot
• 83 elephants safely relocated across Malawi
• Rare barbastrelle bats spreading north – Colony discovered in Lincolnshire
• Seal pups start arriving at John O’Groats rehab unit
• First photos of Mull’s Sea eagle chicks – Satellite tracking last year’s chicks
• Battle to protect New Zealand’s native birds continues
• Mistaken identity dashes hopes for hirola, one of world’s rarest antelope
• Woodlark populations suppressed by high level ofpredation
• Tiny new species of bat discovered on Comoros Islands
• Tanzanian communities reaping the benefit of sustainable forestry
• Animal populations dwindling drastically in Kariba
• 15 endangered Sumatra elephants poisoned and shot in 2009
• Red kites - Kleptomaniacs of the skies?
• Port of London to work with RSPB on the Thames
• Peregrine persecution incidents increasing across the country
• Red Kite in Somerset
• Korea and Japan have growing whale ‘bycatch’ markets
• 20 more Sea eagles chicks arrive on Scotland’s east coast
• Mating seahorses in Studland Bay - First UK photo?
• Humpback whale in the Hebrides - Photos
• Nearly a third of whales killed by Japan in the Antarctic were pregnant
• Inchnadamph delisted as a National Nature Reserve
• Large numbers of Common & Bottlenose dolphins seen off Wales
• Farne puffins to be tracked by GPS to find why they are declining so fast