Wildlife News

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  Badger lovers to find sanctuary at Asda, Waitrose and M&S
  Posted by Kevin Heath last updated on May 24th, 2013 at 5: 50 pm

  People who are against the badger cull have three options of buying their milk if they want to ensure they are not buying from farms that may be part of the governments badger trial. Three supermarkets have confirmed that they do not source their own-brand milk from Gloucestershire or Somerset. Wildlife charity Care for the [...]

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  UK court sentences coral smuggler to 6 months in prison
  Posted by Kevin Heath last updated on May 24th, 2013 at 9: 22 am

  A 23 year old Manchester man has been sentenced to 6 months in prison for attempting to smuggle 750kg of rare and endangered coral into the country from Vietnam. The smuggler, Alex Montgomery,of Mottram Old Road, Stalybridge,  pleaded guilty after being caught by UK Border Force guards at Manchester Airport last May. More than 650 live [...]

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  Rhino killings surge to an average of more than 5 a day last week
  Posted by Kevin Heath last updated on May 23rd, 2013 at 2: 31 pm

  The South African government has just released the rhino statistics covering the last week and there has been a shocking surge in rhino poaching. So far this year 350 rhino have been killed that’s 37 up on last weeks figures or an average of 5.3 rhino killed each day. The surge has been driven by [...]

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• International taxonomists name their Top 10 new species from 2012
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 23rd, 2013 at 11: 13 am
  In celebration of  Carolus Linnaeus – the scientist who established the naming system for species – the world’s top taxonomists have released their latest Top 10 new species list. [Read more...]
• World’s newest country go in hunt of rhinos
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 22nd, 2013 at 7: 36 pm
  The world’s newest country, South Sudan, has announced that it is to mount a ground and aerial search to discover if the rhino is truly extinct in the country or if the ‘fog of war’ [Read more...]
• Nuisance noise becomes important whale study
  Posted by Leya Musa on May 21st, 2013 at 8: 43 am
  Noise from earthquake sensors is being used to study the fin whale. The fin whale is one of the least studied and understood of the whales species and the ability to use earthquake sensors to track [Read more...]
• Will ice sheets collapse in a warming world? – probably not
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 17th, 2013 at 1: 22 pm
  Collapsing ice sheets and rising sea levels are often described as a feature of a warming world and many climate scientists predict that this will happen thanks to climate change. But a recently [Read more...]
• Indonesian courts orders land ownership back to tribes
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 17th, 2013 at 7: 37 am
  In 1999 a new law was bought into effect in Indonesia which saw vast swathes of forest taken into state ownership. That law was over-ruled yesterday by the Constitutional Court and following its [Read more...]
• Lion cub in Twitter sale is seized by authorities
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 16th, 2013 at 1: 26 pm
  On Monday a lion cub was put up for sale on the Twitter web site. Photographs of the cub was tweeted together with a price tag of Dh30,000 by a Dubai based pet shop. Today wildlife officials of the [Read more...]
• United States sentences Vietnamese rhino traders to 3.5 years in prison
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 16th, 2013 at 7: 51 am
  The Judge went easy on two rhino horn traders in the United States yesterday when she sentences one to 42 months and another to 46 month in prison. This was less than the sentences that the US [Read more...]
• 3 rhino a day killed in South Africa last week
  Posted by Kevin Heath on May 15th, 2013 at 7: 19 pm
  South African authorities have just released the weekly statistics for rhino poaching in the country. Last week 21 rhino were killed taking the total so far this year to 313. The 21 rhinos killed in [Read more...]

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• Newts, Police and wildlife conservation gone mad
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• Elephant campaigner wins Indianapolis Prize
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