Wildlife News Articles From February 2010

• Raven increase does not bad news for threatened waders
• New Zealand high court sides with rare dolphins against fisheries
• First Kokako chicks born to newly translocated population in Central New Zealand
• Hare coursing much better for hares than conservation!
• Coal tit in South Wales is BTO’s 100 millionth record
• Giant Pandas should be carnivores according to their genes
• Red squirrel project success in Scotland
• New species of stingray discovered off Western Australia
• Jaguar amongst a host of wildlife photographed just 30 miles south of US-Mexico border
• Salt in bird baths and leftovers could kill garden birds
• Leucistic junco in Virginia
• Invasive & imported garden plants a danger to UK wildlife
• Jewelled gecko smuggler caught in New Zealand
• The What on Earth Project – Recording the wildlife of the UK
• 3 California condors killed by lead poisoning
• New report reveals the ups and downs of Britain’s water birds
• Europe’s rarest seabird threatened by new military radar
• Deadly bat ‘White Nose Syndrome’ spreading across USA
• Wildlife flourishing at Blakeney Point
• Killing in the name of conservation
• Final call for nest boxes
• Sea Shepherd captain boards Japanese whaling ship - Arrested
• Whaling compromise rejected by conservation groups
• Ground parrots spotted in New South Wales park for first time in 20 years
• Record number of critically endangered Takahe chicks born
• First ever record of Wilson’s Phalarope in Abu Dhabi
• Hydrocarbon boom threatening the Peruvian Amazon
• Monkeys threatened by forest decline
• Kentucky Man Sentenced for Poisoning Hawks and Vultures
• Critically endangered Sumatran rhino pregnant
• Bittern and Willow warbler singing early at WWT London
• The world's 25 most endangered primates
• Coral loss slowed and even reversed by Marine Protected Areas
• Huge Fin whale strands in Cornwall
• Do elephants run or just walk fast?
• Swans shot dead in Norfolk
• Rugged, hilly landscapes with a variety of habitats are important for butterflies
• 1000 Grey parrots rescued from trappers in Cameroon
• 7000 zebra and wildebeest to be moved to Amboseli to restock after drought
• What is happening to the UK’s woodland birds?
• Hawaii considers strict law to halt killing of endangered monk seals
• Marine Protected Areas: a solution for saving the penguin
• Record 40,499 Sandhill cranes counted in southern Arizona
• Top 10 tiger trouble spots in 2010
• Sri Lankan elephants in danger from mines and repopulation
• Japanese whalers ram another Sea Shepherd vessel, but leave whale sanctuary
• Monarch butterfly numbers hit all time low
• Canada to kill up to 50,000 seal pups as Winter Olympics begin
• Somak holidays remove controversial new Masai Mara camp from sale.
• Does the Masai Mara need a new lodge in pristine habitat? - Somak seems to think so. And there are unanswered questions.
• RSPB calls for tougher rules on garden chemicals
• Spring happens 11 days earlier in the UK than in 1970
• Isle of May seabird chick numbers up – But total populations decline
• 25 Himalayan Griffon vultures killed by a train
• Why did frogs die in my pond during the cold snap?
• Mindless attack on swan
• 15th Dumfries Red kite poisoned
• Severn Barrage could bring floods, destroy wildlife and livelihoods
• Hawaiian False killer whale numbers in steep decline
• Leucistic Bald eagle from Oregon
• Two Humpbacks freed from fishing nets in Mexico
• Humpback whale off South East Ireland – Breaching and harassment. - Photo and video
• Baby mountain gorilla face 'mangled' by a snare - Dies of his injuries
• Wild dogs seen & photographed on the Serengeti
• Whales and dolphins worldwide threatened by bycatch & human activities
• Far Ings Visitor Centre reopens
• Migrating insects fly in the fast lane
• India’s first comprehensive database on Tiger mortality and crime launched
• Sea eagles - Let's have them all over the country - Your vote.
• 80% of ponds in Britain in a poor condition – And getting worse
• 200,000 people in the UK say: Stop killing birds of prey!
• Extinct in the Wild, Kihansi Spray toad breeding and on display at Bronx Zoo
• New species of ‘Spiny Pocket Mouse’ discovered in Venezuela
• Leucistic chaffinch in Kent
• Remarkable new ‘Colour changing’ frog discovered on New Guinea island
• New population of a rare and endangered Long-Whiskered owlet found in Peru
• Antarctic fur seals catching King penguins at sea – Video
• BTO training courses – Identification, surveys & ringing
• Heat wave killing endangered birds in Western Australia
• White-beaked dolphin research around the Farne Islands
• Nairobi National Park drought over – Wildlife thriving
• Shark tagging project launched off Scotland
• Lead paint still killing thousands of rare seabirds on Midway Island – outrage must end now say conservation groups
• Decade-old dream comes true as Lake Chad is declared a RAMSAR wetland
• UK needs to do more on ivory ban
• Join America’s Great Backyard Bird Count
• Lynx killed in Colorado 10 years after release
• First ever sighting of a Bittern at Oxfordshire reserve