Wildlife News Articles From May 2010

• Visit England ignoring wildlife tourism
• New species of bird discovered in Colombia
• Celebrations as two rare Australian cockatoo chicks hatch
• Urban woodlands provide vital ‘refuelling’ stops for migrating birds
• Forty bison (and an extra one) released onto new reserve in Utah
• Canned Cameras? The scandal of tame wildlife photography
• Blue tits set up home in ashtray
• Sea Shepherd captain goes on trial in Tokyo
• Protest against Trump golf course is growing – You can help
• Three panthers killed on US roads in as many days
• Yellow-eared parrot no longer ‘critically endangered’
• 55 million birds killed by cats in the UK every year
• World Turtle Day sees satellite turtle-tracking system go live
• Loch Garten's new arrivals: All three osprey eggs hatch
• Peat extraction threatens Salford’s ‘rainforests’
• Plant invasion: National Trust fights back
• Is the cuckoo clocking in too late?
• Critically Endangered living fossil frog threatened by mining in New Zealand
• Hen harrier hotline set up in bid to save UK’s rarest bird of prey
• Beavers to be released in Devon
• Scottish beaver research – More waste?
• New species of frog in Madagascar has unique breeding habit
• Alaotra grebe declared extinct and 12.5% of bird species declared endangered
• Lawsuit launched to protect critically Endangered North Atlantic right whale
• Rare Orange-breasted falcon and Tamandua photographed on Ecuadorian reserves
• UK government fails to halt wildlife declines
• 40 vultures poisoned in Tanzania
• Baby bonobos tragic victims of illegal trading
• Hippos and gorillas the innocent victims of DR Congo violence
• First picture of newborn gorilla
• Binoculars and bodyguards: Looking for Iraq’s birds
• Cumbria is home to UK’s biggest cherry tree
• Black cockatoo survey in Western Australia
• Oiled Kemp’s Ridley turtle rescued from Gulf of Mexico
• Florida wildlife in danger as Gulf of Mexico oil spill enters powerful sea currents
• Extreme weather behind the deaths of four Mountain gorillas in Rwanda?
• Too close for comfort? Gorillas stressed by tourists
• Humpback whales embark on 13,000km round trip
• Leucistic house sparrow in Devon - Or escaped caged bird?
• Chinese bear bile farm closed after dramatic rescue
• Two endangered Hector’s dolphins killed in fishing nets
• First Grey whale in Vancouver for 100 years
• Greenpeace anti-whaling activists face jail despite having no case to answer
• Help monitor whales and dolphins of England’s north-east coast
• Blue whale carcass washed ashore in Australia – 2 men charged with theft of bones
• Humpback photo ID links Cape Verde whale to Iceland
• New species of pigeon, spike-nosed frogs and world’s smallest wallaby found in New Guinea
• First Purple herons ever to nest in the UK at Dungeness
• Three new monitor lizards from the Philippines identified
• Protecting corals increases fishing profits
• Endangered Sumatran elephant killed by poachers
• Zimbabwe rhino poaching court case a turning point?
• Slovakia moves to sacrifice wildlife for ski slopes
• Search for the legendary Jamaica petrel draws blank – Probably extinct
• Sun, sea and saving birds: Win a cruise of a lifetime
• Endangered animals confiscated in Abu Dhabi
• How to keep young birds safe from cats
• Peanuts off the menu for UK’s birds
• Habitat fragmentation: Birds the real victims, as snakes move in
• Pacific Gray whale spotted in the Mediterranean Sea - Major puzzle for scientists
• Sea eagles are not big lamb-eaters
• Mystery over red wolf deaths: reward offered
• Saving Australia's rare honeyeater
• Hwange National Park animals being sent to North Korea
• Unusual new species of frog discovered on the highest peak in India’s Western Ghats
• Six eagles and nine buzzards amongst twenty one raptors poisoned across Britain & Ireland
• Six buzzards and two fox cubs poisoned in Derbyshire
• Protecting Sweden’s birds from the nest-robbers
• 3 Eagles and 3 Red kites, 3 buzzards and a peregrine killed in Ireland in spate of poisoning
• Three Golden eagles amongst other birds found dead in Scotland.
• Conservation work paying off in the Congo
• Record-breaking numbers of sea ducks flock to Carmarthen Bay
• Don’t rush to help ‘abandoned’ fledglings
• Special care for some of Wales’ rarest butterflies and moths
• A 'cartography of hope' for birdlife in the Western hemisphere
• New species of jellyfish discovered with gonads on its head
• Avocet, Temminck’s stint and whimbrel spotted at Tubney Fen
• Two more beavers released in Scotland
• Exhausted male osprey hitches a ride on tall ship in the Channel
• Six black rhinos to be released on the Serengeti
• Critically Endangered Javan rhino killed in Vietnam
• How chimps deal with death – Unusual behaviour
• Tracking a Kruger tusker during his final days
• ID scheme for UK's dolphins
• Orphaned clouded leopard cubs returned to wild
• Rare Franciscana dolphins studied for first time
• Baby Mountain gorilla's mystery death
• Stunning footage of Northumberland ospreys
• How a $110,000 land deal could save endangered Bolivian macaw
• Wildlife beyond nature reserves: RSPB thinks big to save UK wildlife
• Addo's biggest tusker dies in fight with another elephant
• Congo ranger killed by armed rebels
• Rare birds return to New Zealand pest free islands
• Roe deer stuck in school gates
• Unusual meat eating behaviour recorded in water voles
• Endangered cricket reintroduced in South East England
• Gir lion numbers up 13% in 5 years
• Oiled birds may be a fraction of the total toll on birds from Gulf oil spill
• Bird sites most at risk from Gulf oil spill
• Scotland wildlife photography prize for RSPB volunteer
• India’s plans to ban tiger tourism could signal the end for the tiger
• Further honey bee losses in USA
• 20 National Wildlife Refuges threatened by Louisiana oil spill
• Satellite image of Louisiana oil spill
• Oil spill clean up can damage wildlife as much as the spill itself
• Birds in the Gulf of Mexico will be devastated
• Alarming biodiversity decline as 2010 biodiversity target missed
• Killer whale in the Irish Sea & Cardigan Bay
• The perfect spot for tigers...
• Timber rattlesnakes won't cross even small roads
• Blow for Suffolk’s eagle reintroduction plans