Wildlife and Conservation News - September 2008

Fisherman bitten by blue shark has re-constructive surgery (The Telegraph)

Past decade hottest for 1,300 years in northern hemisphere (The Telegraph)

Hurricane season leads to rare birds visiting British Isles (The Telegraph)

Rare wild flower books Isle of Wight a place in farming final (The Telegraph)

This summer's weather 'harder to predict', leading weather forecaster admits (The Telegraph)

Britain's only mountain butterfly under threat (The Telegraph)

Spoonbills successfully raise chicks in UK (The Telegraph)

Bug decline sparks food fears for other wildlife (The Telegraph)

Reindeer roam wild in England for the first time in 800 years (The Telegraph)

Keep off the grass: One man's mission to save our meadowland and its wildlife (The Independent)

Councils 'don't know where some recycling goes' (The Telegraph)

Butterflies fight losing battle with climate change (The Telegraph)

Autumn, a time to gather in, though maybe not so much this year (The Telegraph)

Electronic smog 'is disrupting nature on a massive scale' (The Independent)

Golden eagle chicks are first reared in a decade (The Telegraph)

Bad weather causes decline in robin numbers (The Telegraph)

Birds and berries: A fertile feast (The Guardian)

UN threatens to act against Britain for failure to protect heritage sites (The Guardian)

Red kite reintroduced after 200 years and killed within weeks (The Independent)

New flooding means it is too late for many farmers to harvest crops (The Telegraph)

Albino hedgehog to be released after rescue (The Telegraph)

One nation under water (The Guardian)

Weather Eye: September has been heavenly for slugs (The Times)

How good an eco-driver are you? Regulator's tips on careful motoring may save 500 pounds a year (The Guardian)

Farmers fear harvest could be the worst since 1968 (The Times)

Hen harriers could be wiped out in England (The Telegraph)

Mutant worms could clean up polluted landsites (The Telegraph)

Eagle owls breeding wild in Britain for the first time in thousands of years (The Telegraph)

Contraceptive injections to control wild boars (The Telegraph)

Ted Danson launches attack on British fish and chips over rare shark (The Telegraph)

When the osprey met the raven (The Guardian)

'Upside down rainbow' caused by freak weather (The Telegraph)

Brad Lewis's volcano photography captures molten fireworks (The Telegraph)

Honey buzzards make second surprise invasion (The Telegraph)

Volunteers restore historic giant of Cerne Abbas to his former glory (The Guardian)

Wolves could be reintroduced to Scottish Highlands (The Telegraph)

Fence erected at ancient harbour due to 'health and safety' (The Telegraph)

Conservation: Running the wilds (The Guardian)

Starving guillemots push rival chicks off cliffs (The Guardian)

Lynx and boars may once again roam free in Scottish Highlands (The Independent)

Blue whale photographed for the first time in Irish waters (The Telegraph)

Farmers fear for next year's harvest as wet summer delays sowing (The Telegraph)

Concorde's new home invaded by greater-crested newts (The Telegraph)

Gamekeeper who clubbed badgers to death spared jail (The Guardian)

The five most endangered whales (The Independent)

Birds in decline around the world (The Telegraph)

Grandparents are new champions of green movement (The Telegraph)

UN urges protection for seabirds (The Telegraph)

Record penalty for grouse moor where poison was found near birds of prey (The Guardian)

Anger at plan to cull 100 wolves in Spanish mountains (The Guardian)

Catastrophic fall in numbers reveals bird populations in crisis throughout the world (The Independent)

Sea Eagles blamed for deaths of lambs in Scotland (The Telegraph)

The magic of Stonehenge: new dig finds clues to power of bluestones (The Guardian)

Wet summer leads to chronic shortage of thatching straw (The Telegraph)

On red alert (The Guardian)

Rare butterfly numbers boosted by European influx (The Telegraph)

Plans to reintroduce beavers after 400 years halted (The Telegraph)

Right-to-roam: Marine Bill means landowners will lose right of appeal (The Telegraph)

Study reveals squirrels' sex habits (The Telegraph)

Half of Europe's amphibians could be extinct by 2050 (The Telegraph)

Grouse moor owner denies poisoning protected birds of prey (The Guardian)

Endangered bird hops to rescue of nudist beach (The Independent)

Sea eagles 'make sheep farming impossible' (The Telegraph)

Playing with fire on Hardy's heath (The Telegraph)

How pigeons took over the robin's patch (The Observer)

Wildlife expert calls for return of missing lynx (The Observer)

EU lobbied to order ban on fish dumping (The Observer)

Tidal power scheme to launch in Scotland (The Telegraph)

Heron catches rabbit: Dramatic photos (The Telegraph)

Yew tree that was nearly 1,000 years old felled (The Telegraph)

Farmers harvest bumper crop of apples (The Telegraph)

Soil Association urges ban on pesticides to halt bee deaths (The Guardian)

McDonald's in compost trial (The Independent)

Conker shortage caused by moth invasion (The Telegraph)

Grey wolf returns to US endangered species list (The Guardian)

Birds of prey slaughter provokes ugly standoff in Malta (The Guardian)