New Forest, Wildlife and Environmental News - June 2009

Bumblebee extinct in Britain to be reintroduced from New Zealand (The Guardian)

Best plants for bees (The Telegraph)

Bustard breeds in wild for first time in Britain for 200 years (The Guardian)

Allotment waiting lists reach up to 40 years (The Telegraph)

Country landowners turn guns on grey squirrels (The Guardian)

City birds sing higher than country cousins, scientists find (The Guardian)

Make Your Nature Count: Join the RSPB's summer wildlife survey (The Guardian)

More wild flowers to be planted to save honey bees, says WI (The Telegraph)

Prince Charles calls for squirrel cull to save timber industry (The Telegraph)

Yes, kill those hard-nut alien squirrels (The Guardian)

In praise of... red kites (The Guardian)

Roe deer become target for urban hunters out to make a quick buck (The Independent)

Anglers call for cull of otters over fish havoc (The Telegraph)

Nine alien insects to cause pain, illness and even death in Britain as climate warms up (The Telegraph)

Pret A Manger to stop selling tuna sandwiches (The Telegraph)

Red kites exported after success of reintroduction programme in Britain (The Guardian)

Is the daddy-longlegs doomed? (The Guardian)

Wood white butterfly: Rare, elusive and sadly declining (The Guardian)

Chestnut trees open a window for green building (The Guardian)

Rum and treacle: how to attract moths to your garden (The Guardian)

Public support creation of marine nature reserve (The Independent)

Butterfly chaser who was branded mad for her pursuit of the insects (The Independent)

Isle of Wight - Michael McCarthy: A special hat-trick on a special island (The Independent)

Snakes slither using friction hooks, find scientists (The Telegraph)

After 200 years, ospreys return to Northumberland (The Guardian)

Wildlife tower blocks: Why shouldn't animals get a taste of the high life? (The Guardian)

Farm gives hope to UK flora and fauna (The Guardian)

Epic trip to trace the remotest of our native butterflies (The Independent)

Badgers found in one in ten gardens, says RSPB (The Telegraph)

Police raid Scottish grouse moor after poisoned red kite is found dead (The Guardian)

Beavers return in full force (The Independent)

Back from the brink: reintroduced species in the UK (The Guardian)

What it takes to bring the large blue butterfly back to Britain (The Guardian)

Large Blue butterfly flutters back from extinction, thanks to a tiny ant (The Telegraph)

Navy exercises blamed over dead dolphins (The Independent)

Welsh badger cull is brutal, futile and incomprehensible (The Guardian)

Britain's seabirds disappearing says RSPB (The Telegraph)

Falcon nest in Greenland is 2,500-years-old (The Telegraph)

Streetlights threaten survival of bats (The Guardian)

Daisies at their best for 15 years (The Telegraph)

Golden eagle found by walkers in Scottish Highlands was poisoned (The Guardian)

Moth turns from black to white as Britain's polluted skies change colour (The Telegraph)

Native wildlife and plants will struggle to adapt to warmer temperatures (The Telegraph)

Honey pots costing £55 each sell out (The Telegraph)

Moths: creatures of the night that may shed light on climate change (The Guardian)

Women's voices 'make plants grow faster' finds Royal Horticultural Society (The Telegraph)

Greenpeace eco-protesters board coal freighter bound for Kingsnorth (The Telegraph)

The uncommon Common Swift (The Telegraph)

Corncrake fights back from extinction (The Telegraph)

Beekeeping diary: a less than auspicious start (The Telegraph)

Heath fritillary butterfly sees boost in population (The Telegraph)

Rare blood-sucking lamprey fish return to English rivers (The Telegraph)

British birds will suffer from the disappearance of set-aside land (The Telegraph)

Invading ladybirds breed up ecological storm for UK species (The Guardian)