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The end of a (sub)species? Syrian bald ibis population reduced to just 1 birdDespite the current crisis in Syria, the Northern bald Ibis field team have continued to monitor the ibis, and have reported the sad news that only one Northern bald ibis has returned to the breeding site at Palmyra this spring.
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Armed poachers enter World Heritage 'Village of elephants'Poachers have entered one of Africa's most unique elephant habitats threatening to cause one of the biggest elephant massacres in the region since poachers killed at least 300 elephants for their ivory in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida National Park in February 2012.
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Largest pod of Scottish sperm whales for nearly 20 years A pod of 14 sperm whales was spotted off North Berwick last week; the whales were thought to be heading towards Fife. This is the largest group ever seen in the North Sea and one of the largest pods ever seen off the UK coast - according to marine research and conservation charity Sea Watch Foundation.
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Surprise - Beavers fell trees near the water's edge - A study of beavers introduced into the wild in Scotland that will cost nearly £2 million has discovered that beavers mostly effect trees near the water's edge, with 500 metres of their lodge.
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European bison released into the wild in GermanyOn 11 April 2013, a fence was cut down in the Bad Berleburg region of Germany. Nothing unusual in that, except that cutting the fence allowed a small herd of European bison (sometimes known as wisent) to become the first free roaming herd in Western Europe for 400 years.
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Maasai banned from their land in favour of an Arabian hunting companyLying adjacent to the north-eastern portion of the Serengeti National Park, the significant array of wildlife found in the 4000 sq kms Loliondo concession has, over the last two decades, attracted increasing numbers of hunters and ecotourists. The current dispute involves a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based hunting company called Ortello Business Corporation (OBC) with strong links to the royal family and military leaders of this tiny Arab state - they want their own private hunting grounds within Loliondo.
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World's rarest big cat turns the corner as Amur leopard population grows sharplyAccording to census results, minimum leopard numbers were determined as 43-45 adult individuals and 4-5 cubs. In 2007, 27-34 leopards were recorded. Thus, if the slogan "Only 30 left in the wild!" was recently true, today we can say with confidence that not less than 50 Far Eastern leopards now live in the Russian Far East. Although good news, 50 is still a critically small number for the long term survival of the population.
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Ospreys are back in the UKA sure sign of spring (ignoring the weather) is when ospreys return to the UK after their winter break in the warmer climes of West Africa. The first ospreys have foolishly returned a few days earlier than last year, to be greeted by rain, fog and even snow.
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Snake oil threat to the world's rhinosAs the rhino poaching crisis, hits new troughs, some snake oil salesmen from South Africa want to enrich themselves by selling 'snake oil' to the Vietnamese. In this case, the snake oil comes in the form of rhino horn, which some rhino farmers in South Africa want to sell legally to Vietnamese businessmen who will sell it in Vietnam as a cure all for cancer.
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Walrus in ScotlandOn Sunday March 3rd, a walrus was spotted near the North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory in the Orkney Islands, causing quite a stir. The walrus appears to be a young male, and is quite possibly the same animal that was seen in the Faroe Islands recently.
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How does a lynx cross a fence? Remarkable photosAlex Taylor, a human-wildlife conflict specialist who works for Parks Canada, was sent to intervene to help keep a lynx and her kitten off the highway near Canada's Lake Louise in Banff National Park. While on the scene, Alex snapped an incredibly rare sequence of images of the animals as they crossed highway fencing.
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A pod of five sperm whales sighted inshore off North West ScotlandAn extraordinary winter sighting of five Sperm whales off the coast of North West Scotland this week could be a reflection of climate change and warming sea temperatures, says a leading marine scientist.
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Cats kill 2.4 billion birds and 12 billion mammals every year in US aloneA new peer-reviewed study has found that bird and mammal mortality caused by outdoor cats is much higher than has been widely reported, with annual bird mortality now estimated to be 1.4 to 3.7 billion and mammal mortality likely 6.9 - 20.7 billion individuals in the US alone.
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Concerns grow for Mali's elephants as war escalatesThe war in Mali has escalated recently and France has now intervened. The human tragedy here has been growing for many years, but amidst the poverty, drought and hardship, a population of some 550 elephants, known as the ‘Gourma elephants', have survived on the edge of the Sahara.
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Rare and spectacular spider find in 150 year-old tombs in London! A large, rare spider has been recorded for the first time in London - deep in tombs at Highgate Cemetery.
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Lions extinct in 25 African countries & populations in more trouble than previously thought Lionaid, the lion conservation charity, has revealed that it believes lions are in much worse trouble than previously thought, and have already become extinct in 25 African countries. LionAid estimates that only 15,244 lions remain on the entire continent with only 645-795 wild lions remaining in western and central Africa and 14,450 wild lions remaining in eastern and southern Africa.
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Jaguar and ocelot photographed in southern ArizonaAn adult male jaguar and an adult male ocelot have been photographed in two separate southern Arizona mountain ranges by automated wildlife monitoring cameras.
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150 beavers found living in Scotland 'unofficially'A study, run by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), has confirmed that approximately 146 beavers are presently living in the wild in rivers in Tayside. The beavers in Tayside have been in the area since at least 2006, and originate either from escapes or deliberate releases from private collections.
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Massive African ivory seizure in MalaysiaRoyal Malaysian Customs have made their largest ever seizure of ivory in transit through the country, finding 1,500 pieces of tusks hidden in wooden crates purpose-built to look like stacks of sawn timber.
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Lions in danger - 75 percent of lion habitat has disappearedA new study has confirmed that lions are rapidly and literally losing ground across Africa's once-thriving savannahs due to burgeoning human population growth and subsequent, massive land-use conversion.
Representing the most comprehensive assessment of the state and vitality of African savannah habitat to date, the report maintains that the lion has lost 75% of its original natural habitat in Africa - a reduction that has devastated lion populations across the continent.
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IUCN cries foul over trade in python skins but CITES issued 400,000 export licencesConcerns have been raised about the unsustainable nature of the trade in python skins around the world. IUCN say that the level has reached unsustainable levels, yet CITES issued more than 400,000 permits for python skin exports last year - And these are just the legal ones.
Bear gall bladders - Why?
Even more worrying in some ways, the amount of bear gall bladders that CITES has issued quotas for recently. In 2010, the CITES quota for bear galls to be shipped from Russia to Korea was more than 3000 kilograms!
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Birds massacred in Lebanon - Unfettered hunting a disgraceBirds and being shot in their thousands in Lebanon by indiscriminate hunters who pride themsleves on the rarity, number and size of their targets.
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Mountain gorilla population growsThe total world population of mountain gorillas has risen to 880, according to census data released by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. The number of mountain gorillas has increased from the 2010 estimate of 786 after a count in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The critically endangered animals live only in two locations, Bwindi and the Virunga Massif area, which spans parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Rwanda.
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Pine Marten found in Wales – the first in 40 years!A road casualty pine marten has been found near Newtown in Powys - the first known carcass in Wales since 1971. ‘The significance of this find cannot be overstated,' said Natalie Buttriss, Chief Executive with The Vincent Wildlife Trust. ‘It adds to the body of evidence supporting the long-held view of mammal experts that this attractive tree-dwelling animal does exist in Wales, but in such low numbers that very few people ever see one.'
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World's rarest whale seen for the first timePreviously only known from a few fragments of jaw bone, the world's rarest whale, the spade-toothed beaked whale, has been sighted for the first time according to scientists from The University of Auckland.
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Albino Humpback whale seen off SvalbardThese extraordinary photos were very kindly sent to us by Dan Fisher, who spotted this beautiful white Humpback, and took some fantastic photos of the whale. Wildlife Extra believes that the whale is an albino, as we can see no colouration at all on the whale, and there does seem to be a pink tinge to his/her eyes and mouth.
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One of the world's least known birds has been rediscovered in ChinaIn early June 2012, Yann Muzika photographed many finches during a difficult trek in Yenigou Valley in western Qinghai, China, including one he could not identify. In August, he sent a batch of photographs to Krys Kazmierczak, of OrientalBirdImages.org, who immediately identified the mystery bird as the long-lost Sillem's Mountain Finch.
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Painted lady migration secrets unveiled - 9000 miles to Africa and backOne of the longest standing mysteries of migration has finally been solved after scientists discovered where the UK's Painted Lady butterfly population goes each autumn.
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160 new species discovered in Borneo - Spiders, bugs, beetles, damselflies, fungi and possibly a frogThe largest numbers of new species were found among the spiders and fungi. Other new species include true bugs, beetles, snails, stalk-eyed flies, damselflies, ferns, termites and possibly a frog.
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New monkey, marsupial and shrew amongst 8 new mammal species found in PeruA team of scientists from Peru and Mexico have made a series of discoveries, including potentially eight new mammal species, that may be one of the most important findings for biodiversity in recent decades.
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Rhino carnage - 9 rhinos killed in 1 day in KwaZulu-Natal; 4 killed in Eastern Cape and 3 in IndiaWill this terrible carnage only stop when there are no more rhinos left?
Reports from South Africa have revealed a terrible day for rhino conservation in KwaZulu Natal. 8 white rhinos were killed at Hluhluwe/Umfolozi, the park where they were rediscovered in 1895 having been thought extinct. Additionally, a black rhino was killed at iSimangalo Wetland Park, and three one-horned rhinos were poached in India.
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Outrage after a Golden eagle is dumped by lay-by and left to die lingering deathA golden eagle, that had been fitted with a satellite tag, has been found dead near a lay-by in Scotland. The eagle had two broken legs, probably from a spring loaded trap, and data from the satellite tag appears to show that the eagle was still alive for 3-4 days after being dumped by the side of a road.
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The world's 100 most threatened species - Are they priceless or worthless?For the first time ever, more than 8,000 scientists from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) have come together to identify 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet. But conservationists fear they'll be allowed to die out because none of these species provide humans with obvious benefits.
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Fantastic camera trap photos of three cheetah cubs in IranA family of Asiatic cheetahs has been photo-trapped for the first time in north-eastern Iran. During an ongoing intensive monitoring of the cheetahs by means of camera traps in Miandasht Wildlife Refuge, an adult cheetah with her three small cubs was photographed.
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New species of rat redefines rodentsScientists have discovered an extreme species of rodent in Indonesia unlike any other on Earth; an almost toothless, worm-eating rat unable to gnaw or chew. The discovery of Paucidentomys vermidax illustrates how the process of evolution can lead to the loss of previously successful traits in species faced with new opportunities.
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Lake Nakuru water rise prompts flamingo exitA million flamingos have temporarily moved from Lake Nakuru to Lake Bogoria leaving behind just a few hundred owing to a reduction in their food supply. This has been caused by an unusal phenomenon of rising water to levels last experienced over 60 years ago at Lake Nakuru National Park.
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40 Blue whales sighted off San Diego coast About forty Blue whales have been sighted swimming in waters 15 miles west of La Jolla.
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India to ban tiger tourism?Tourism in the parks needs better regulation as nobody benefits – neither wildlife nor tourist – from irresponsible driving and over exuberant guides. But..........
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Young mountain gorillas observed destroying poachers' snares for the first time!Field staff of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund observed several young gorillas in Rwanda, from a family of gorillas known as Kuryama's group, destroying snares set by poachers!
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World’s most famous tortoise, Lonesome George, is dead and his species is extinctLonesome George, the sole remaining Pinta Island tortoise and Galapagos conservation icon, has died, rendering the Pinta Island tortoise species extinct.
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Tiger deaths surge in India – Corbett & Tadoba hit by poachingIndia’s tiger fatalities are rising steadily; the country has lost 48 tigers in the last 22 weeks, with Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand and the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra being the hardest hit by poaching.
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Seals' heads nailed to Irish Seal Sanctuary doorAs the staff of international and local volunteers arrived at the Dingle Wildlife and Seal Sanctuary in Ireland they found the heads of a common seal and a Grey Seal nailed to the entrance sign into the Sanctuary, with the words Cull and RIP written in red alongside.
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North Atlantic right whale spotted off Cornwall?Sightings of a large whale off the Cornish coast near Lizard Point are causing a stir amongst scientists who say it could have been a North Atlantic right whale, one of the most endangered species in the world.
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Indian Supreme Court rejects cheetah reintroduction planThe Indian Supreme Court has halted the planned reintroduction of cheetahs into India. The court rejected the plan after the state of Gujarat objected to the plan, Project Cheetah.
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Modern male single parent tiger bringing up cubsAfter a tigress died, leaving two small cubs, their father, the dominant male of the area, was spotted out on his regular territorial walk with the small orphaned cubs. Nothing like this had ever been recorded before. A male tiger, taking on a the role of a mother - and from such a tender age.
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WWF President number 2 – Let's kill more wolves because we want to kill the elkWWF has many presidents, but some of their choices are beginning to look questionable. Although, as an organisation they do not oppose all hunting, or even trophy hunting, (UK WWF president Prince Charles and ex-President Prince Phillip are known for their love of shooting), WWF Sweden do strongly oppose hunting wolves in Sweden. However their president, King Gustaf, wants to “cull the wolf population”.
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WWF Honorary President – King Juan Carlos – injured on elephant hunt in BotswanaThere seems to be a strain amongst the rich and obnoxious worldwide that it is OK for them to use their wealth to destroy wildlife for their own pleasure. Donald Trump Junior's recent elephant hunt in Zimbabwe was bad enough, but at least he has no pretentions to be a leader of conservation and he isn't the king of a country (God forbid) that is undergoing severe economic problems at the moment.
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Proud of killing an elephant for fun? Donald Trump Junior appears to beDonald Trump's boys have returned from a hunting safari in Zimbabwe. The Trump boys' photos have appeared on a website posing next to some of the animals that they have shot. The photos make my stomach turn, but one outrages me in particular.
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Lady of Liuwa gets 2 sisters as lionesses are relocated to Liuwa National ParkDespite responding enthusiastically to her new companions and engaging in copious mating activity, The Lady of Liuwa failed to produce any cubs over an 18 month period. Despite Lady Liuwa's worldwide fame, the prospects of a viable lion population at Liuwa once again seemed dire. So in mid 2011, African Parks took the decision to introduce new lionesses to ensure the continuance of lions in Liuwa, despite the potential threat that new females could pose to the now aging Lady Liuwa.
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When the gorillas came visiting....The guests at a tented campsite in Bwindi Impenetrable Park in Uganda had a major surprise when they got up early for breakfast. Rather than having to go trekking through the mountainous jungle to look for a family of gorillas, the gorillas had come to visit them in their camp.
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'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in BorneoAn international team of scientists has found one of the rarest and least known primates in Borneo, Miller's Grizzled Langur; a species which was believed to be extinct or on the verge of extinction.
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Albino bat photoA white, probably albino (we are debating whether it is albino or leucistic) bat photographed by Doug Mackenzie Dodds
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Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners 2012.The winners of the internationally respected Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2011 have been announced. Young Wildlife Photographer of The Year - 10 Years and Under winner. Alien - By Hui Yu Kim (Malaysia)/ Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011.
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White Humpback whale calf off QueenslandA white Humpback whale calf, probably just a few weeks old, was spotted and photographed in the Whitsunday Islands off Australia's Queensland Coast. The calf was probably born in northern Great Barrier Reef waters and is just a couple of weeks old.
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Tanzania Government ditches Serengeti HighwayThe proposed asphalt road which would have bisected the Serengeti National Park, jeopardising the world's last great mammal migration, will not now be built, the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has announced at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting.
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8 lions poisoned in Kenya - Leakey speaks outConservationists have warned that Kenya's lion population is in danger of becoming extinct within a few years if nothing is done to stem a wave of poisonings that have already left at least eight of the charismatic predators dead in recent weeks.
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Lake Eyre floods for the third year in a row.For the third year in a row, floodwaters are filling the once dormant Lake Eyre in South Australia, on an even bigger scale than in 2009 and 2010.
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The very worst kind of conservationA charity called Songbird Survival (SS) has launched an appeal for £88,000 that will ‘examine the impact of corvid removal on farmland songbird productivity.' In other words, they apparently want to kill as many corvids as possible in the hope that this will boost songbird numbers.
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Cryptic new wolf species identified in north AfricaNew molecular evidence reveals a new species of grey wolf living in Africa. Formerly confused with golden jackals, and thought to be an Egyptian subspecies of jackal, the new African wolf shows that members of the grey wolf lineage reached Africa about 3 million years ago, before they spread throughout the northern hemisphere.
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New population of Critically Endangered Gharials found on the GangesA new population of Critically Endangered Gharial has been found on the Ganges in an area where they have not been know for more than 40 years.
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Feral cats kill 480 million birds in US every year - Responsible for 33 extinctionsFeral cats in the USA are devastating wildlife and costing the economy as much as $17 billion.
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Incredible array of new species found in remote Papua New Guinea An orange spider, a jabbing spiny-legged katydid, a white-tailed mouse and a minute long-nosed frog are among an amazing 200 new species of plants and animals discovered during just two months of deep rainforest exploration in a small portion of Papua New Guinea's remote forest-cloaked mountains last year.
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Saola caught alive in Laos, first sighting for 11 yearsFor the first time in more than ten years, there has been a confirmed sighting of one of the rarest and most enigmatic animals in the world, the Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) from the Annamite Mountains of Laos and Vietnam.
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Extraordinary mutation of Thompson's gazelle - or fake?If it was April 1st, we wouldn't have been surprised by this story, but in August? These images appear to show a Thompson's gazelle that has been bred by crossing a gazelle with a goat or even a Scottie dog. We were immediately suspicious of the authenticity of the pictures as they seem just to extraordinary.
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World’s biggest freshwater fish threatened by dams on MekongWild populations of the iconic Mekong giant catfish will be driven to extinction if hydropower dams planned for the Mekong River go ahead, says a new report by WWF.
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Pine Marten rediscovered in England! Conservationists are ecstatic at the news that England's rarest mammal, the pine marten, has been found in the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland.
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Four Great bustard chicks hatch in the wild in the UKOne of the most spectacular birds on the planet, the Great Bustard looks set to consolidate its return to the UK with the news that four chicks hatched so far this year and that there are 4 confirmed nests.
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12,000 critically endangered Saiga antelope found dead in KazakhstanNearly 12,000 Critically Endangered Saiga antelopes have been found dead in the Ural population in western Kazakhstan.
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Critically Endangered Javan rhino killed in Vietnam A Javan rhino has been found dead in Vietnam's Cat Tien National, further endangering the population of one of the world's rarest large mammals. It is now uncertain how many, if any, Javan rhinos are left in Vietnam, WWF said.
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First wild born cheetah for 40 years in Arabia The last known Arabian cheetah was shot in Saudi Arabia in 1950, though they may have hung on in Oman until around 1970. Now 4 cubs have been born in the wild in a nature reserve on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.
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Millions of sea turtles are killed as ‘collateral damage’ in the race for fish Millions of sea turtles have become the unintended victims of a failure to properly manage the worlds' fisheries, with more and more of their habitats clogged with hooks and nets.
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Elephant ivory imports allowed into the USA - Rednecks versus villagersWildlife Extra was under the misapprehension that it was illegal to import ivory into the USA. Given the very recent decision by CITES to prevent Tanzania and Zambia from down listing the elephants to appendix 2, Wildlife Extra is speechless to discover that it is perfectly legal to kill wild elephants in some parts of Africa, including Tanzania, and then import the tusks, skin and other disgusting mementos into the USA.
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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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Wildlife photographer of the year winner disqualifiedIn response to a lot of disquiet about the winning image of the 2009 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, The judging panel was reconvened; they concluded that it was likely that the wolf featured in the image was an animal model that can be hired for photographic purposes and, as a result, that the image had been entered in breach of Rule 10 of the Competition.
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Wildlife trade raping Africa – Hundreds of species for sale on the internetWe were recently approached by a Tanzanian wildlife dealer, offering us an eye-wateringly wide range of species. Although it is not currently legal to import wild birds into the UK (This was not implemented with any thought for wildlife, but because of bird flu.), it is still legal in many countries.
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Desperate year for Northern bald ibis as birds are shot and electrocutedOne of the last remaining wild birds in the Middle East has been shot by a hunter in Saudi Arabia.
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Giant rat and new marsupial amongst 40 new species discovered in Papua New GuineaA new species of giant rat is one of 40 new species discovered on a recent expedition to a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea.
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33,000 sharks, 2000 dolphins & 2000 turtles killed to boost beach tourism in South AfricaIt is difficult to believe in this day in age, with all that we know about sharks' plummeting populations, their critical role in ocean ecosystems and the minimal risk they pose to humans, that the archaic and destructive practice of installing shark nets for "bather protection" still exists.
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Scotland welcomes back the beaver – Wildlife Extra questions the costMarking the first formal reintroduction of a native mammal species into the wild in the UK, three beaver families have now been released at carefully selected sites in Knapdale Forest, Mid-Argyll.
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Lost and abandoned fishing nets, crab pots and marine debris killing marine wildlife and choking the oceans. The total input of marine litter into the oceans per year has been estimated at approximately 6.4 million tonnes annually, of which nearly 5.6 million tonnes (88 percent) comes from merchant shipping.
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