Wildlife News Articles From October 2009

• New study reveals first ever method to genetically identify all eight tuna species
• First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds
• Chatham Island tui moved back to Chatham mainland
• Poland’s threatened wildlife saved by landmark decision reprieves
• Tiger moth uses sonar weapon to evade bats
• BBC 'Life' - Fish
• Australia publishes first nationwide survey of Important Bird Areas
• New 'moustached' amphibians discovered in India
• Surprising camera-trap images reveal carnivorous warthogs
• Dinosaur egg ID?
• Huge Blue whale killed by a ship in California.
• BBC 'Life' - Mammals
• Last remnants of Atlantic forest to be preserved
• Scotland Red kites number reach highest level for 150 years
• New ‘giant’ Golden orb spider discovered in South Africa
• New refuge to protect migratory and resident birds in the Dominican Republic
• Large population of Gurney’s Pitta discovered in Myanmar
• Indian elephant calf rescued from mud pit and reunited with mother
• Soomaa, Estonia's ‘land of bogs,’ joins the PAN Park network
• Golden eagles spared wind farm threat
• Destructive jellyfish spotted off Mull’s coast
• Reptile extinctions mirror those of amphibians, say scientists
• 100 elephants being slaughtered every day by poachers – 20 years after ivory ban
• Space age ship to thwart Japanese whalers
• New salt marsh to be created at Grangemouth
• Huge fish found with Green turtle in stomach
• Albino fallow deer spotted in Lincolnshire
• Manatee hit by speedboat in Florida rescued
• Help record Harlequin ladybird invasion with your mobile
• Kinder Scout declared a National Nature Reserve
• Amazing bed-fellows as kestrels and barn owls share a nest
• Endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna formally recommended for international trade ban - Algerian official arrested
• Huge sea eagle settles in at Loch of Strathbeg
• One Humpback whale caught every 10 days in Queensland beach nets
• Loch Garten osprey chicks both make it to Africa – Follow them on their route
• Arctic to be ice free in summer – Consequences for polar bears
• Kenya gets some rain – At last
• Long feared extinct, rare crow rediscovered in Indonesia
• Cook Inlet beluga population in steady decline
• Northern bottlenose whales die in Scotland and Wales
• Leucistic chamois photographed in Spain
• Lake Nakuru becomes Africa's first IBA-branded National Park
• Appeal launched to buy rare wildflower meadows in Worcestershire
• World will miss 2010 target to stem biodiversity loss
• World’s first vegetarian spider discovered in Central America
• Bats moving into new home just weeks after opening
• $16,000 paid out in compensation for lion predation
• New Zealand's extinct giant eagle was a fearsome predator
• 121 breeding tigers estimated to survive in Nepal
• Coto Doñana threatened by water extraction for tourist resort
• Kenya drought continues - Wildlife and livestock suffering
• British team head for Africa to search for UK summer migrants
• New population of world’s rarest lemur discovered in Madagascar
• Leucistic scrub jay in Arizona
• Coral bleaching increases chances of coral disease
• Black-footed ferret reintroduced into Canada
• 131 walrus calves trampled to death in Alaska
• Eurobirdwatch 2009 results
• Purple Hairstreak butterfly found at Killiecrankie
• Major survey of East African carnivores has some surprising results
• Mediterranean gull numbers boost on the Medway – Join an ‘Autumnwatch at the Riverside’ event
• Tiger rescued from poachers snare in Malaysia
• 26 countries condemn Iceland whaling
• Research project to examine 90% drop in Lancashire red squirrels
• Mediterranean seabirds more resistant to black rats than others
• Amazing image of a Kingbird attacking a red tailed hawk 20x its size
• Ring-necked parakeets, Canada and Egyptian geese now officially pests
• Albatross camera reveals fascinating feeding interaction with killer whale
• Australia creates Marine Park to protect Humpback whale nursery
• King penguin population booming on remote Macquarie Island
• Leatherbacks recorded nesting on Georgia coastline alongside 1000 Loggerheards
• Clouded Yellow & Painted lady butterflies still arriving in the UK in large numbers
• Fin whale caught in gill net killed by fishermen in Pakistan