Wildlife News Articles From December 2009

• Largest new species of 2009 – 42 metre high tree – amongst 290 new plants by Kew
• Leucistic Cardinal in Texas
• Biofuel developments set to destroy Kenya’s Tana River Delta
• Successful artificial insemination of Kakapo gives hope to critically endangered bird
• Last dancing bears removed from streets of India
• Record number of manatee deaths in Florida in 2009
• New pictures reveal rich Antarctic marine life in area of rapid climate change
• African leaf-eating primates are ‘likely to be wiped out’ by climate change
• Day time otter thrilling visitors to RSPB Leighton Moss
• Leucistic Canada goose in Oregon
• Turkey fat extremely dangerous for birds warns RSPB
• Japanese whaling ship 'aggressively' tracking Sea Shepherd anti whaling ship
• UK wildlife photography competition - 2009 - results
• Last chance for world’s rarest rhino as 4 are released into the wild
• Cross River gorilla captured on professional film for the first time
• Massive hunt for potentially extinct Slender-billed curlew launched
• Protecting whale feeding grounds is vital
• Goldcrests numbers crash while Firecrests thrive
• Worcester Wildlife Trust buys rare flower meadows
• Birdlife launches project to save last Ethiopian forests
• First record of tool use in an invertebrate – An Octopus – Video & images
• Coto Donana National Park threatened by strawberries
• Red squirrel strongholds to be launched in Scotland
• Breeding California condor dies of lead poisoning
• Endangered whooping crane shot dead
• Place your bets on endangered species
• Two rhinos shot, one suspect arrested in KwaZulu Natal
• Yellowstone lava chamber 20% bigger than thought – Sits on top of 400 mile deep lava plume
• Blue whale song getting deeper – May be good news
• Unsung wildlife threatened by climate change
• New study sheds light on Koala evolution
• Three new tree species discovered at Cheddar Gorge
• 4 critically endangered Somali wild ass born in Qatar reserve
• Penguin fingerprinting enables migration tracking
• Leucistic moorhen on the Wirral - 3rd or 4th generation
• DNA study sheds new light on horse evolution
• Road deaths decimating Shetland’s otter population
• Kakariki breeding on Auckland Island for first time in 100 years
• Loggerhead turtle stranded alive in Ireland
• Sefton Red squirrels bounce back after huge decline
• Humans banned from caves and mines to slow killer bat disease spreading
• Leucistic Junco in Missouri, USA.
• Anti-poaching operations boosted in Kruger Park
• White giraffe seen in the Kruger Park
• Canada takes steps to protect north in face of global warming
• Invasive harlequin ladybird found breeding in Scotland for first time
• Wagtail ID – Free guide from the BTO
• New drug threat to Asian vultures – Edging them towards extinction
• Angling MP would rather drown worms than see beavers
• Lapwing boost in Northern Ireland
• Once thought extinct hoverfly discovered in Forest of Dean
• ‘Hypocritical’ EU gives €34.5m to fleets fishing tuna to extinction
• Forestry scheme to encourage Black grouse in Northeast England
• Cave spiders relocated back to their underground home
• Congo: Huge gorilla population needs protection
• Critically Endangered Dwarf Olive ibis nest found
• Four new species of King crab discovered – In a museum
• Critically endangered Saiga antelope vital for preservation of world’s largest grasslands
• Police operation in Yorkshire targets poachers
• Cook Inlet Beluga gain some protection
• New research allows identification catch zone of shark fins
• Wildlife trade raping Africa – Hundreds of species for sale on the internet
• Multinational operation against wildlife crime nets 500 kilos of Ivory in East Africa
• Leucistic Cory's shearwater chick on the Madeira Archipelago
• Komodo dragons and other giant lizards all evolved in Australia
• Tracking leopards in Nairobi National Park
• Saudi Princes hunting endangered species in Algeria with a forged permit
• Mountain gorilla baby born in Virunga
• South Africa and Zimbabwe at epicentre of rhino poaching surge
• 95% decline in migratory fish in North Atlantic
• Golden eagles to get protection boost in Scotland
• 10 species most threatened by global warming in America
• Western Australia braced for poisonous cane toad invasion