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New Forest, Wildlife and Environmental News - August 2009

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The IoS weather lists (part 1) (The Independent)

5th

Hi honey I'm home – the new hobby that's creating a buzz in Britain's towns and cities (The Guardian)

The plight of the humble bee (The Guardian)

The extraordinary life and suspicious death of Benson the giant carp (The Guardian)

Weather eye: A wet summer of cloud spotting (The Times)
6th

Rural affairs deserve more from the BBC (The Telegraph)

7th

Taking the sting out of beekeeping (The Guardian)

Ladybird invasion hits Norfolk (The Independent)

Beaver 'shot' days after release into wild after 400-year absence (The Telegraph)

9th

Huge protests over quarry threat to Scottish beauty spot (The Guardian)

The IoS weather lists (part 2) (The Independent)
11th

GM crops set for role in Britain's food revolution (The Independent)

Britain's wet summer leads to spike in winter food sales (The Telegraph)

Exhausted bee population 'to be given energy drinks to boost performance' (The Telegraph)

Grandfather hoarded 500 wild birds' eggs (The Telegraph)

National Trust volunteers: back to the stone age (The Telegraph)

12th

Restored Border Mires bog brings floods of joy for wildlife (The Guardian)

Annual wasp invasion hits Britain (The Telegraph)

Wildlife crime units target endangered species product trade (The Telegraph)

Ants 'only help out their own family during rescues' (The Telegraph)

13th

Night forays into the countryside (The Telegraph)

16th

Britain's oldest-recorded wild golden eagle dies at 22 (The Guardian)

18th

Wildlife crimes pushed to the back of the queue, say conservationists (The Guardian)

19th

Butterfly lovers hail Duke of Burgundy's second coming (The Guardian)

20th

Folk dancing in step with the times (The Telegraph)

22nd

Roar of traffic drowns out frogs' love croaks (The Independent)

23rd

'Super elms' begin to fill the gaps in English landscape (The Independent)

24th

Big fall in British bee population (The Independent)

25th

Hoofed and dangerous: Britain's killer cows (The Independent)

27th

Llama trekking comes to Britain (The Telegraph)

30th

Helen Brotherton (The Guardian)

 

 

 

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