Turtle Diary: Return To The Wild

BBC News:

Anna-Marie Lever follows the release of two turtles from Newquay to the Canary Islands. These lucky loggerheads were the only two survivors of 23 that have been washed up on UK and Ireland coasts this year…

Where’s Moe? Chimp Still Loose

Daily Bulletin:

Moe, a chimpanzee who escaped from an exotic animal compound near Devore on Friday, is still on the loose in the San Bernardino National Forest.

The county’s department of Animal Care and Control, the California Department of Fish and Game, a private helicopter and about 20 people were searching for the chimp Sunday, but they were unable to find him…

Bad Weather Keeps Animal Centre Busy

 Wrexham Leader:

Workers at the Capricorn Animal Rescue centre have been inundated with homeless creatures of all shapes and sizes, due to the recent bad weather.

Flintshire’s Padeswood-based Capricorn Animal Rescue volunteers take in both domestic and wild animals that have been abandoned or injured, and provide them with veterinary treatment if they need it and either find new homes for them or release them back into the wild…

Major Kenyan Wetlands To Be Sacrificed For Biofuels

Wildlife Extra:

The Kenyan government has approved a controversial plan to grow biofuel crops on an internationally important coastal wetland. More than 80 square miles of the Tana River Delta, which provides refuge for 350 species of birds as well as lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles including the Tana writhing skink, will be destroyed and replaced with sugarcane for biofuel, some of which could be sold in the UK where oil firms are being forced to sell more biofuel.

Conservationists and villagers living in the Delta believe the decision is illegal and are determined to block the development. The groups are considering what action they might take…

Student Captures Albino Squirrel On Camera

Kent News:

When a student saw a flash of white in the tree outside her college she thought it was a cat.

But as the creature began to move, revealing its bushy tail, she realised it was a rare albino squirrel…

Digital Camera Info:

…The RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2008 (YPA08), sponsored by Olympus and printing company Warners Midlands is now accepting entries by anyone aged under 19 on 1 September 2008…

Family Of Swans Brings Town To A Standstill

Telegraph:

A family of swans brought chaos to an East Sussex town when they decided to go for a rambling three-hour walkabout…

Tell Fairfax Petland To Stop Freezing Baby Animals Alive

PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals):

Petland is a national chain that sells puppies, kittens, birds, and small animals. It is reprehensible for pet stores to contribute to the overpopulation crisis, which affects all companion animals, and this indefensible and unscrupulous practice is a more than sufficient cause for action. But Petland has really outdone itself this time. PETA has obtained video footage of baby mice and rats being frozen alive so that they can be sold as snake food at at the Petland store located at 9404-A Main St. in Fairfax, Virginia…

Major Kenyan Wetlands To Be Sacrificed For Biofuels

Wildlife Extra:

The Kenyan government has approved a controversial plan to grow biofuel crops on an internationally important coastal wetland. More than 80 square miles of the Tana River Delta, which provides refuge for 350 species of birds as well as lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles including the Tana writhing skink, will be destroyed and replaced with sugarcane for biofuel, some of which could be sold in the UK where oil firms are being forced to sell more biofuel…

Three Men Facing Cockfight Trial

This Is Bristol:

Three men will face trial after denying that they took park in an organised cockfight at a Bristol travellers’ site.The RSPCA claims the men were involved in the 90-minute fight in Patchway between two cockerels which only ended when one of the birds was shot with an air rifle…