UK wildlife photography competition 2010
The UK has some fantastic wildlife, and we want you to get out and photograph it. It costs nothing to enter, but there are 6 cameras, wildlife artwork, wildlife phohotgraphy books and a £500 donation to a UK wildlife charity on offer. Entry is free.
Latest wildlife news
- Disgrace as CITES ignores plight of Bluefin tuna
- 120 slow worms moved to make way for houses
- National Science and Engineering Week 2010 in bid to save UK’s iconic and most loved wildlife
- Antarctic whale research expedition returns to port
- West and Central Africa and South-East Asia allowing ivory trade to thrive
- Red alert warning for Europe’s dragonflies, beetles and butterflies
- New species of shrike described from Africa
- UK wildlife photography competition 2010
- Carnage continues in Zimbabwe
- Porous China-Myanmar border allowing illegal wildlife trade to thrive
- First California condor egg in Pinnacles National Monument for 100 years
- Rare Iranian salamander in danger of extinction due to internet pet trade
- Madagascar rainforests still being plundered - WWF
- Map of swift distribution in Britain
- Chinese medicine societies reject tiger bones
Recent wildlife news
- Galapagos island to be repopulated with sterilized tortoises – Habitat engineers
- New Zealand government drawing up plans to allow mining on conservation land
- Proposed US legislation would prevent millions of bird deaths
- Leucistic Oystercatcher in Auckland
- Monkey fatalities in South America caused by Yellow fever
- Hundreds if pelicans stranding in California & Oregon
- Three seizures in three days: four leopard skins, two tusks recovered; 10 arrested
- US “State of the Birds 2010” report shows climate change threatens hundreds of species
- Elephant protection to be downgraded by CITES?
- Tawny owl tangled in fishing line put down
- Common pesticide identified as major threat to frogs worldwide
- 2000 litres of pesticides killed the fish in Lake Naivasha
- Scientists fail to find critically endangered Golden tree frog in Trinidad
- 40,000 toads to be rescued from death on Britain’s roads
- Leucistic collared dove in Texas.
75 starlings die in mystery crash landing Mystery surrounds the death of 75 starlings which crashed to the ground and died on a single driveway in Somerset.
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Extinct Australian frog found alive after 30 yearsAn Australian species of frog that was believed to have gone extinct 30 years ago has been discovered in the Southern Tablelands on New South Wales. The Yellow-spotted Bell Frog (Litoria castanea) was once abundant until a population crash in the 70s saw them disappear.
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Whale shark butchered for its fins in the PhilippinesAn 18-foot long Whale shark has been mutilated in the Philippines by having its fins cut off for the shark fin trade. The shark was left to die by the so called fishermen who butchered it.
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2 tons of ivory seized at Bangkok airportThai officials have seized two tons of ivory at Bangkok Airport. The packing cases containing the ivory are said to have arrived on an Emirates flight from Nairobi via Dubai.
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Jaguar amongst a host of wildlife photographed just 30 miles south of US-Mexico border Almost one year after the death of the last known wild jaguar in the USA in Arizona, The Sky Island Alliance have released the first photographs of a northern jaguar in the Mexican State of Sonora.
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Huge Fin whale strands in CornwallThe body of a huge whale has been found on the north coast of Cornwall; The Cornwall Wildlife Trust believes it to be a Fin whale, which had been reported floating close to the shore off Pendeen.
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Baby mountain gorilla face 'mangled' by a snare - Dies of his injuriesAnd then later the Rangers reported that Nsekanabo is dead. Tumaini is still carrying him around, so the Rangers will now follow the family closely (maybe for several days), until she leaves Nsekanabo behind.
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New population of a rare and endangered Long-Whiskered owlet found in PeruThe Long whiskered owlet, one of the rarest birds in the world, has been filmed and photographed in January 2010 in the Neotropical Primate Conservation (NPC) main research area, La Esperanza, in Peru.
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