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I generally focus on conservation issues effecting biodiversity, land use/abuse, research, and job opportunities that I have come across. Most of the opportunities come from the Opps page and you can click on the button below to take you there.
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Conservation News ~ 15 January 2021

1/15/2021

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  • ‘There is no vaccine for climate change,’ U.N. environment chief says
  • Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven
  • Sumatran rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy
  • Group to sue interior secretary for delaying protection of spotted owl, other species
  • Cocaine production driving deforestation into Colombian national park
  • 63 tonnes of ‘ghost gear’ removed from Atlantic Ocean in 2020: Fisheries Department
  • "Will Senate Wins Unlock Biden's 100% Clean Energy Agenda?"
  • "Second-Warmest Year on Record Cost the World $210 Billion"
  • Multiple Tribes Protest Drilling Of 5,000 Oil And Gas Wells In Wyoming
  • "Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Storage Boom Has Arrived"
  • "Garland Would Bring Rare Environmental Chops as Attorney General"
  • "Cutting Concrete’s Carbon Footprint"
  • Radar Technology That Could Revolutionize Hurricane Forecasts Unfunded
  • Want To Save B.C. Salmon? Bring Back Indigenous Fishing Systems: Study
  • "EPA Chief To Visit Costa Rica As Administration Winds Down"
  • Namibia sees steady downward trend in rhino and elephant poaching
  • Researchers develop new system for measuring ship-generated underwater noise
  • WWF outlines drone guidelines for conservation
  • $95 Billion Damages: US Saw Record Year For Climate-Driven Catastrophes
  • "2020 Ties 2016 as Hottest Yet, European Analysis Shows"
  • ‘Red Flag’: How An Ethanol Plant Is Dangerously Polluting A US Village
  • "Exxon Mobil Is Twisting Itself in Knots to Justify Pumping Even More Oil"
  • "Trump Moves To Loosen Mining Regulations, Approve Projects As He Exits"
  • "Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth"
  • Climate Hitting Colorado River 'Incredibly Fast And Incredibly Hard'
  • "Oil Companies Stockpile Drilling Permits, Challenging Biden On Climate"
  • "Trump Environmental Record Marked by Big Losses, Undecided Cases"
  • Prince Charles Urges Businesses To Sign Pledge To Put Planet First
  • Six rangers killed in deadly militia attack in DRC’s Virunga National Park
  • Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges
  • Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest
  • The gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
  • "50 Countries Vow To Protect 30% Of Land And Sea By 2030"
  • "Dirty Air And Lost Pregnancies In South Asia"
  • "Interior: Bernhardt OKs Contentious BLM Law Enforcement Reforms"
  • "Top Senator Warns Banks: 'Account For Climate'"
  • "Here's What Might Be In Biden's First Climate Order"
  • "Insect Populations Suffering Death By 1,000 Cuts, Say Scientists"
  • Texas Eye Tougher Rules On Chemical Tanks To Prevent Explosions, Spills
  • "What We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020"
  • "A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia"
  • Someone Wrote ‘Trump’ On A Manatee. Feds, Florida Are Investigating
  • "Michigan Plans To Charge Ex-Gov. Snyder In Flint Water Probe"
  • "Apache Group Sues Over Land Swap For Arizona Copper Mine"
  • "Deflect And Obstruct: How Interior Ducked House Oversight"
  • "A Late Burst of Climate Denial Extends the Era of Trump Disinformation"
  • "Sage Grouse Review Done, But Scant Time For Trump’s Changes"
  • "Great Lakes: Enbridge To Defy Mich. Order To Halt Pipeline Flow"
  • "Climate: Trump EPA Aims To Tie Biden's Hands With Rulemaking Surprise"
  • Climate Scientists, Mothers, Urge Americans To Act
  • Trump Admin Slashes Critical Habitat For Northern Spotted Owl
  • "17 States Sue EPA For Declining To Tighten Air Pollution Standards"
  • How Trump Admin’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council
  • "Climate Crisis: Record Ocean Heat In 2020 Supercharged Extreme Weather"
  • Coalition Calls On Biden To Impose National Moratorium On Water Shutoffs
  • Wildfire Smoke Causes Up To Half Fine-Particle Pollution in Western U.S.
  • Fossil-Friendly Manchin To Head Senate Energy Panel As Dems Face Climate
  • "Navajo Nation, New Mexico Reach Settlements Over Mine Spill"
  • "Lyme Disease Much More Common Than Previously Thought, Study Shows"
  • "Lawsuit Seeks More Protection For Endangered Right Whales"
  • Europe’s largest bank suspected of greenwashing
  • Tanzania to auction 30 ‘tourist hunting blocks in game reserves
  • Humpback whale latest victim of Taiji fisheries
  • LA County releases LA River restoration plan
  • Scientists have identified the 100 largest companies extracting the majority of their revenues from the world’s oceans
  • Defenders, Guardians and other organizations challenge nationwide wolf delisting
  • Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno Palpur to be India’s first cheetah sanctuary
  • Forest Defenders – a Panamanian tribe regains control of its lands
  • Climate deniers shift tactics to inactivism
  • World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
  • Wildlife photographer promotes lion conservation with stunning portraits
  • Eugene conservation group objects to plans for post-fire savage logging
  • Scientists discover new ‘spectacular’ bat from West Africa
  • CSULB President issues statement saying no building on Puvungna Land
  • Nez Perce Tribe reclaims 148 acres of ancestral land in Eastern Oregon
  • Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20-to 30 years
  • Swedish postage stamp celebrates work of Greta Thunberg
  • Most Europeans plant ot curb flying, eat less meat for climate, EU polls says
  • Saudi Arabia is building a zero-carbon city in a 100-mile straight line
  • Renewables produce more power than fossil fuels in Germany for first time
  • New species of bark beetle is a master of disguise
  • A new species of fruit fly named after Siruvani
  • A single cat wiped out an entire colony of fairy terns
  • Sharks born prematurely, weaker in warmer ocean temperatures
  • World’s tallest trees bigger than thought
  • Cherokee Nation establishes first hunting, fishing reserves
  • Michigan plans to charge ex-Gov Rick Snyder in Flint water scandal
  • Evidence of huntsman spider creating leaf trap for a frog found in Madagascar
  • Environmental groups sue in bid to block EPA ‘secret science’ rule
  • Guardians of Congo’s gorillas unbowed as ambushed colleague is buried
  • Invasive brown tree snakes stun scientists with amazing new climbing tactic
  • UK pledges $4billion to nature and biodiversity protection
  • White House auctions Arctic refuge to oil drillers in last stroke against US wilderness
  • Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts
  • 3 neon-green fluorescent geckos species discovered
  • Prince Charles asks companies to join Earth charter
  • Ocean acidification is transforming California mussel shells
  • More than 50 countries commit to protection of 30% of Earth’s land and oceans
  • US consumes more green energy than coal for first time since 1885
  • Feds launch new assault on endangered species, public lands
  • UN chief calls for urgent transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
  • Global heating could stabilize if countries go net-zero emissions
  • A hi-tech eye in the sky lays bare Hawaii’s living coral reefs
  • Scientists discover hundreds of deep-ocean reefs
  • Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals
  • Paris agrees to turn Champs-Elysees into ‘extraordinary garden
  • As Enbridge to build line 3 Pipeline, resistance ramps up in the courts and on the ground
  • For the first time, Starbucks takes on zero-waste construction
  • Scientists discover slimy microbes that may help keep coral reefs healthy
  • Adidas new vegan leather shoes will be made from fungi
  • Six rangers killed in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park
  • New wild mushroom named after Pauri in U’khand
  • Elusive Catalina Island Shrew, feared extinct, spotted for 1st time in years
  • First Philippine eagle bred in captivity dies
  • Evidence of water movement found in meteorites that only recently fell to Earth
  • Jungle cat observed for first time in northwestern Iran
  • The platypus is now a threatened species in the Victoria, Australia
  • Biden picks Mr. Monsanto Tom Vilsack to head the USDA
  • Nearly 600 manatees died in Florida waters in 2020
  • The US just got a new national park – and it’s a rock climbing and whitewater rafting paradise
  • Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England
  • Pesticide believed to kill bees in authorized for use in England
  • Cameroon says elephants killed 10, leaving many homeless and hungry
  • Indistrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia
  • Young killer whale rescued after stranding on Scottish beach
  • New species, devil-eyed frog, and Satyr butterfly not seen for a century found in forests 30 years
  • New species of recluse spider named for Leonard Cohen
  • France plans mass duck slaughter as bird flu hits foie gras
  • Pikas are adapting to climate change remarkably well, contrary to many predictions
  • CO2 levels this year 50 percent higher than 19th century
  • India’s leopard populations increases by 60% in 4 years
  • Emmanuel Macron announces the One Planet summit biodiversity
  • IUCN Green List hels Huangshan Scenic Area in integrated management of three UNESCO designations
  • 843 nominations received from across 43 countries for the new International Ranger awards
  • UK overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha becomes one of the world’s biggest sanctuaries for wildlife
  • Quebec meets UN convention’s terrestrial protected area target of 17%
  • Egypt’s Wadi El-Hitan nature reserve praised for good practice by IUCN
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Conservation News ~ 8 January 2021

1/8/2021

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  • Historical data point to imminent extinction of Tapanuli orangutan
  • Platypus disappear from five locations around south-east Queensland
  • New bee species found in the Great Smokies
  • Lawsuit launched to protect eight Florida plants threatened by sea-level rise, development
  • Gray Wolves delisted, remain protected by state in Oregon
  • Monk Seal killings on Kauai highlight human threat to endangered species
  • Nearly a century after being extirpated, blue whales are moving back to South Georgia Island
  • Australian wildlife 20 times more likely to encounter deadly feral cats than native predators
  • Alberta to allow new coal strip mines that could kill four blue-ribbon trout rivers
  • Rescuing orangutans doesn’t work for apes or forests
  • New genus of tiny iridescent snake from Philippines found in collection
  • Grey wolves off the endangered species list
  • Severe climate-driven loss of native molluscs reported off Israel’s coast
  • Uninhabited Aldabara coral atoll filled with plastic from humans
  • Finger pointed at poachers after rare lynx killed in France
  • In parting gift, EPA finalizes rules to limit its use of science
  • Manas National Park doubling its tiger population since 2010
  • Discovery of endangered female turtle provides hope for extremely rare species
  • Nigeria superhighway project through the rainforest stopped
  • Indonesia renews peat restoration bid to include mangroves
  • 1 million species are at risk of extinction, new UN report says
  • Bali’s beaches buried in tide of plastic rubbish during monsoon season
  • South African game reserves forced to cull animals as COVID halts tourism
  • China jails ivory smuggling ringleaders for life in landmark case
  • Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge trading in conflict palm oil
  • White House vetoes bipartisan bill to protect marine life from cruel driftnets
  • World’s oldest python found in Messel Pit
  • Kentucky adds its 1st new nature preserve in a decade
  • Researchers learn new tricks to save endangered Big Sandy crayfish
  • GCF researchers recently spotted two dwarf giraffe in Namibia and Uganda
  • New Zealand is seeking to go predator free by 2050 – an audacious effort to save its unique wildlife
  • Many scientists now say global warming could stop relatively quickly after emissions go to zero
  • Un makes progress on greening the blue
  • Masks add up to 6,240 metric tons of plastic pollution to oceans in 2020
  • Bald Eagles removed from Indiana endangered species list
  • Centralia coal-burning plant shutter unit nine years after Washington law passes to cut emissions
  • Life discovered in Deep ocean sediments at temperatures above water’s boiling point
  • Pal Alto-based institute supports team’s daunting task of mapping world’s ocean floor
  • Groups can’t challenge endangered species plans
  • Two white rhinos killed and dehorned at Limpopo game reserve
  • State approves Ballona Wetlands restoration plan that divides environmentalists
  • 2020 was a breakthrough year for climate tech
  • Wild and captive jaguars mate in Argentina to save species
  • New glass domed trains offer breathtaking views from Colorado Rockies to Utah's Red Rocks
  • Japan adopts green growth plan to go carbon free by 2050
  • Fears grow for whale’s life as footage reveals animal trying to break free
  • A Chilean archipelago rivaling the Galapagos fends off invasive species
  • Exotic animal cafes featuring otters, lizards, and owls raise alarms
  • Bush meat now on sale legally in Tanzania
  • Study shows roadless forests are key to protecting national parks, drinking water, and more
  • Aveda removes beeswax and goes fully vegan
  • Collision at sea as Sea Shepherd vessels attacked in Mexico’s Vaquite refuge
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Firefly, Bees, Poppy Under Endangered Species Act
  • Vietnam jails man for smuggling 29 kg of rhino horns
  • Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano eruption creates 600ft deep lava lake
  • For Latam’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield
  • Historical data point to ‘imminent extinction’ of Tapanuli orangutan
  • Canopy beetles and flowering trees rely on each other in the Amazon, study
  • "White House Vetoes Bipartisan Driftnet Fishing Bill"
  • White House Tried, but Largely Failed, to Derail Top U.S.Climate Report
  • "Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado’s Water"
  • "DuPont Loses Bid for Mistrial After $50 Million PFAS Verdict"
  • Dems Push Regulator To Scrap Rule Forcing Banks To Serve Oil, Gun Firms
  • "Mexico Farm Lobby Blasts Ban on GMO Corn; Organic Growers Welcome It"
  • Sea Level Rise Reduces Some Norfolk Stormwater System Capacity By 50%
  • "Oil, Fuel Leaks Increase As Shipwreck Cutting Progresses"
  • "Trees As A Civil Right: 'All We Have Is Cement And Pavement'"
  • "EPA Finalizes Rule To Limit Science Behind Public Health Safeguards"
  • "117th Congress Opens To New Energy, Environment Fights"
  • "Chemicals: EPA Finds Possible Carcinogen Poses No Harm To Public"
  • Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero
  • "White House To Approve Land Swap For Rio Tinto's Resolution Copper Project"
  • "Biden Set To Supercharge Clean Energy Push With $40B Stash"
  • "Rainforests: 11 Things To Watch In 2021"
  • "Four U.S. Water Stories to Watch in 2021"
  • Interior Finalizes Plan To Open 80 Percent of NPR-A To Drilling"
  • "Homeless In Seattle Get Help From City Waste Pumper"
  • "U.S. Judge Denies Effort To Stop Drilling Auction In Arctic Refuge"
  • Massachusetts To Require 100 Percent Of Car Sales To Be Electric By 2035
  • "Michigan Judge Nullifies Crucial Permit For Mining Project"
  • "Mexican Fisherman 'Dies After Attack On Sea Shepherd Conservationists'"
  • "Grasslands May Soon Produce More Greenhouse Gases Than They Sequester"
  • "Harnessing Rice Fields to Resurrect California’s Endangered Salmon"
  • "Electric Vehicles: 4 Ways 2021 Could Be The Year Of The EV"
  • "White House, in Parting Gift to Industry, Reverses Bird Protections"
  • Feral Cats 20 Times More Deadly To Australian Wildlife Than Native Predators
  • "Sale of Drilling Leases in Arctic Refuge Fails to Yield a Windfall"
  • "Early Biden Climate Test: Groups Demand Tougher Rules on Building"
  • "For First Time In 5 Years, US Gas Mileage Down, Emissions Up"
  • "Exxon Discloses Full Scope of Fuel Emissions for First Time"
  • "A New Study on Regenerative Grazing Complicates Climate Optimism"
  • FirstEnergy Faces Another Audit As Advocates Press For Investigations
  • "Two Florida Panthers Dead In First Week Of 2021"
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New Species and People ~ December 2020

1/4/2021

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New Species
  • a begonia
  • a snail
  • new primate in Myanmar
  • a gecko
  • burrowing frog
  • iridescent snake
  • Sea Shepherd discover new whale species in Mexico
  • a frog
  • a bat
  • dancing springtails
  • 20 species found in Bolivian Andes
  • a mouse lemur
  • NC Sandhill Salamander
  • UWA botanist names, describes new ginger species
  • funguses
  • a snake
  • a tree hyrax
  • potato orchid
  • a bee
  • another bee
  • a tree-spider crab
  
People
  • Another indigenous elder lost to COVID in the Amazon
  • Georgina Mace, who shaped list of endangered species, dies at 67
  • Paul Sein Twa, co-founder of KESAN and Salween Peace Park in Myanmar, receives Goldman Environmental Prize
  • Dr. Drew Lanham named Center for Biological Diversity’s 2020 EO Wilson Biodiversity award recipient
  • Biden to pick Brenda Mallory to run White House environment office
  • Biden to pick North Carolina’s Michael Regan to lead EPA
  • Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone is on a mission to plant a million trees in two years
  • Biden selects Deb Haaland as Interior secretary
  • UN honours Young Champions of the Earth
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Conservation News ~ 1 January 2021

1/1/2021

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  • EPA Sets 1st-Ever Airplane Emission Rules; Critics Call Them Ineffective
  • "Covid Relief Bill Opens Rush for Renewables on Federal Land"
  • Colorado River Tribes Seek OK From Congress To Market Water In Arizona
  • "In Boost for Renewables, Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is on the Rise"
  • In Madagascar’s South, Drought Pushes 1 Million Plus To Brink Of Famine
  • "Interior Secretary Nominee Deb Haaland Meets With Tribal Leaders"
  • Storm Bella Helps Great Britain Set New Record For Wind Power Generation
  • California AG Created an Environmental Justice Bureau, Now a Trendsetter
  • How BC’s Salmon Farmers Fell Behind The Curve Of Sustainable Aquaculture
  • Air Pollution Is Fertilizing Invasive Grasses In Our Hills, Making Wildfires Worse
  • Atlantic discovery: 12 new species 'hiding in the deep'
  • New UN Rules To Tackle Plastic Waste Dumped On Poorer Countries
  • "Line 3 Opponents File Federal Suit To Try To Block The Pipeline"
  • "Exxon Knows Its Carbon Future And Keeps the Data From View"
  • Greens Sue Over Trump Rule Exempting Quick Dishwashers From Efficiency Stds
  • "Indigenous Environmental Defender Killed In Latest Honduras Attack"
  • "Stimulus Law Program to Scrub Carbon From Air Draws Skeptics"
  • White House Rule Allows LNG Rail Transport In Dense Areas
  • "As Reservoirs Run Low, Mexico City Seeks Durable Fix For Water Woes"
  • "Politico Purchases E&E News"
  • Joy after first pangolin born in KZN wild in over 40 years
  • Sale of Arctic Leases Draws an Unusual Taker. It May Be the Only One.
  • Whitmer Signs Bills Funding $641 Million Settlement In Flint Water Cases
  • Warnock Brings a History of Black Faith Leaders’ Environmental Activism
  • Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters: Costs in Lives and Dollars at New High
  • "Biden to Block Still-Pending Trump Administration Regulations"
  • New River Gorge: Covid-19 Relief Bill Creates A New National Park
  • "New York’s Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings"
  • "Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing"
  • Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia
  • Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business
  • White House finalizes rule narrowing habitat protected by Endangered Species Act
  • Polysaccharides from red algae affect the immune system
  • Platypuses increasingly threatened
  • Gonzales native discovers new species of snake native to the Philippines
  • Two new species of ginger found from northeast India
  • Indigenous environmental defender killed in latest Honduras attack
  • Center for Biological Diversity files intent to sue over cadmium and the endangered species act
  • Green Recovery from COVID can slow climate change
  • Nano diamond batteries could last thousands of years
  • The Blackfeet Nation just won a decades-long fight to protect their sacred lands
  • Discovery supports a surprising new view of how life on earth originated
  • Project will double the size of island in US wildlife refuge
  • Increase in invasive European green crabs Oregon’s Coos Bay estuary
  • EU bans plastic waste from being shipped to developing countries
  • Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
  • Trophy hunters killed one animal every three minutes in last decade
  • Earth is moving through radioactive debris of exploded stars
  • Hawaii reboots depression-era Conservation Corps using Pandemic Assistance funds
  • Researchers find a way to pull carbon out of the air and turn it into jet fuel
  • Mauritius oil spill caused by crew chasing mobile phone signals
  • After decades of activism, the Navajo coal plant has been demolished
  • Snakehead species named after local discoverer
  • Scientists find new 100-million-year-old flower species inside a piece of amber in Myanmar
  • Mass die-off of birds in south-western US caused by starvation
  • New tardigrade species withstands lethal UV radiation thanks to fluorescent shield
  • Australian transport emissions back to pre-pandemic levels
  • In Long Beach, California – Colorado Lagoon tidal channel creation begins
  • Oysters return to Belfast Lough after more than 100 years
  • New species of turtle discovered
  • Declining sea levels in the Caspian Sea will lead to genuine ecocide
  • NASA astronaut Kate Rubins harvests radishes grown in space
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Conservation News ~ 25 December 2020

12/25/2020

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  • Panthera study identifies more reliable metrics to save tigers
  • Norway’s Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling
  • Zoo Knoxville welcomes endangered baby mountain zebra for holidays
  • UWA botanist names, describes new ginger species
  • New Mexico methane emissions more than double
  • Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon
  • Oil drops as coronavirus strain revives demand fears
  • Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future
  • Nation’s largest land bridge for people and wildlife opens in San Antonio
  • In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine
  • Devastating fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands again
  • Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation over 100 million degrees
  • Lava lake forms after Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii
  • Fleas are parasitic scorpionflies, genetic analysis reveals
  • Lawsuit challenges White House’s lifting of roadless rules in Alaska’s Tongass
  • Fueled by climate change, wildfires threaten toxic superfund sites
  • Billions spent on fighting California wildfires, but little on prevention
  • Warming ocean fueled more storms in 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season
  • Court orders EPA to step up asbestos data collection
  • The last remaining animals have been rescued from Islamabad Zoo
  • Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity
  • Stimulus bill is laden with climate provisions, including a phasedown of chemical super-pollutants
  • Remarkable new species of snake found hidden in a biodiversity collection
  • Federal lead-pipe rule overhauled for first time in decades
  • Hopi tribe pushed for solutions in long struggle for water
  • Ohio passes bill that could bankrupt churches linked to fossil protests
  • Prosecution dropped against 2 environmental activists
  • Traditional and Indigenous peoples denounce planned Amazon railway
  • Pollution, water crisis strengthen calls for environmental law reform in Malaysia
  • Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush
  • OSU researchers identify ‘new’ species of flower from 100 million years ago
  • A new species of mammal may have been found in Africa’s montane forests
  • Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam
  • Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees
  • Liberia gave villagers control over their forests, then a mining company showed up
  • A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it
  • Microplastics revealed in the placentas of unborn babies
  • Ivory Coast creates wildlife sanctuary to protect turtles and sharks
  • The pandemic turned the volume down on ocean noise pollution
  • Little penguin burrows found for first time in seven years on West Island
  • Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations
  • A new conservation area is created in southern Ecuador
  • US Congress takes aim at climate change in massive relief bill
  • New population of blue whales discovered in the western Indian Ocean
  • Botanist discovers new species of potato orchid in Madagascar
  • A new species of bee has been found in WNC
  • New nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier in a key step toward a stable and clean fuel source
  • Sighting of a super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’
  • Scotia bank becomes fifth major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge
  • New Mexico state land office ends freshwater use by oil and gas industry
  • Baby elephant saved with CPR after being hit by motorbike in Thailand
  • White House waters down definition of critical habitat for endangered species
  • Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
  • In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice
  • Environmentalists seek to block Bahamas oil drilling bid near US coast
  • Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills
  • When invaders moved into their land, Brazil’s Karipuna people pushed back
  • Two newly discovered species of fungi species turn flies into zombies
  • New tree-spider crab species with purple patches described from Kerala mangroves
  • New bee discovered after fire in Great Smoky Mountains
  • 10,800 years ago, early humans planted forest islands in Amazonia’s grasslands
  • New Mexico Rancher who pleaded guilty to bludgeoning endangered wolf admitted trapping, beating others
  • Camera traps document wildfire’s return to Gorongosa National Park
  • Windfarms in Great Britain break record for clean power generation
  • Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo
  • IUCN report documents additional 31 species extinct, all freshwater threatened
  • Action plan launched to conserve giraffe in Tanzania
  • 160 years later, study shows Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly
  • Rare sighting of bobcat in the Bronx River, a sign of a healthier waterway
  • Scientists plan mission to biggest iceberg as it drifts towards island
  • An unusual meteorite, more valuable than gold, may hold the building blocks of life
  • As smaller wolves die huge wolves from Ontario establish on Isle Royale National Park
  • Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes call to rename Colorado’s Mt. Evans and reckon with its namesake’s violent legacy
  • A coal plant in India has found a way to turn almost all its CO2 emissions into baking powder
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, a $5billion foundation literally founded on oil money is saying goodbye to fossil fuels
  • State Supreme Court blocks proposed gold mine near Yellowstone
  • Peruvian court absolves cacoa company of illegal Amazon deforestation
  • For the first time in more than 80 years, salmon spawning in the upper Columbian River
  • Chinese companies and Namibian elites make million illegally logging the last rosewoods
  • Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone is on a mission to plant a million trees in two years
  • Giant Aztec skull tower unearthed in Mexico
  • Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws
  • Research breakthrough could transform clean energy technology
  • Lloyd’s market to quit fossil fuel insurance by 2030
  • New Princeton says the US can go carbon neutral by 2050
  • Devastating skin disease covering up to 70% of a dolphin’s body tied to climate change
  • Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific turns to public to keep animals fed
  • Biden to nominate Brenda Mallory to run council on environmental quality
  • Indonesia allows use of destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters again
  • Biden to pick North Carolina Regulator Michale Regan to lead EPA
  • New catalytic process turns plastic bags into adhesives
  • Biden selects Deb Haaland as Interior secretary
  • Report finds litany of labor abuses on RSPO-certified oil palm plantations
  • On plantations and in protected areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead
  • Victorian woman charged with animal cruelty after almost 130 wedge-tailed eagles found dead
  • Plastic cleanup brings crocodiles back to Indian river
  • The Uk is sending robot submarine to watch the world’s largest iceberg crash into an island
  • In rare event, 90k turtles hatch on a beach in Brazil
  • Scientist left speechless after opening asteroid samples containing seemingly organic matter
  • US Fish and Wildlife Service says Oregon’s Spotted Owls should be reclassified as an Endangered Species
  • Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests
  • UN honours Young Champions of the Earth
  • White House weakens Endangered Species Act amidst biodiversity crisis
  • IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseilles rescheduled to September 2021
  • Amphibian die-offs worsened malaria outbreaks in Central America
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Conservation News ~ 18 December 2020

12/18/2020

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  • Laser fusion reactor approaches ‘burning plasma’ milestone
  • Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal
  • 20 new species found, lost wildlife rediscovered, in the Bolivian Andes
  • Peruvian Ministry of Environment asks Congress to drop bills that promote illegal mining
  • Pakistan won’t approve new coal power plants
  • Lawmakers in the US, UK, and Japan call for international agreement to prohibit eating of dogs
  • More than 61,000 koalas among 3 billion animals affected by bushfire crisis
  • Archaeologists find vast network of Amazon villages laid out like the cosmos
  • China, in nudge to US, makes a new promise to tackle global warming
  • Tasmanian devils claw their way back from extinction
  • Newly discovered mouse lemur species lives in an area of just 1,500 km2
  • No evidence protecting New England ocean gem harmed fishing
  • 5 water protectors block Line 3 construction were detained and cited by state law enforcement
  • Second young elephant dies at Syracuse zoo
  • Sri Lanka activists decry downgrade of non-protected ‘other’ forests by government
  • Brazil beef companies JBS, Mafrig and Minerva linked to 42,000+ acres of illegal Amazon deforestation
  • Papua sawmill loses legal timber stamp over allegations of permit forgery
  • UK to halt subsidies for fossil fuel projects abroad
  • UN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergencies
  • Used masks polluting California coastal waters
  • NC has a new Sandhill Salamander species
  • Sunflower sea stars declared critically endangered on West Coast
  • Setting global targets would drive investment needed to scale up wetland recovery for climate action
  • Biden to pick Brenda Mallory to run White House environment office
  • Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse
  • Global rich must cut their carbon footprint by 97%, UN says
  • Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests
  • In landmark ruling, air pollution recorded as a cause of death for British girl
  • Japan aims to be world’s no. 3 offshore win power producer in 2040
  • Dr. Drew Lanham named Center for Biological Diversity’s 2020 EO Wilson Biodiversity award recipient
  • Water futures set to join likes of gold and oil and trade on Wall Street for first time ever
  • Biden to pick North Carolina’s Michael Regan to lead EPA
  • A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads
  • UK to support plans for new global treaty to ‘turn tide’ on plastic pollution
  • 24 wildlife orgs sue White House for failing to protect wolverine after FOIed documents reveal politically motivation
  • Sunflower sea stars declared critically endangered on West Coast
  • 12 elephants killed in Tanzania by poachers
  • Tyson Foods linked to largest toxic dead zone in US History
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Conservation News ~ 11 December 2020

12/11/2020

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  • New ‘sea dragon’ species discovered by an amateur fossil hunter off English coast
  • New species are more likely to evolve in areas where few already exist
  • Biden gets earful from progressives on environment jobs
  • NMFS extends East Coast vessel speed limits to protect right whales
  • Federal government looks to open up dunes sagebrush lizard habitat to oil and gas
  • Giant Manta becomes first Manta ray to be listed as an endangered species
  • Earth is still sailing into climate chaos but its course could shift
  • Herd opportunity: hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga
  • Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth’s biological mass extinctions
  • Ecuador finds nest of huge, endangered sea turtle
  • Only 40% of world’s forest have high ecological integrity, a new index reveals
  • Court rejects White House Arctic drilling proposal in ‘Huge Victory for Polar Bears and our Climate’
  • Turkish fishermen offered bounty for silver-checked toadfish
  • Human-made materials now outweigh Earth’s entire biomass
  • Bauxite mining threatens India’s lone wolf sanctuary and an interstate river
  • The wild population of European Bison has grown to over 6,200
  • New study helps pinpoint when earth’s plate subduction began
  • New species of iridescent snake discovered in Vietnam
  • Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort dunes lose special environment status
  • Green Recovery from COVID can slow climate change
  • Endangered woodpecker species recovering two years after Hurricane Michael
  • Monarch butterfly endangered decision nears as numbers dwindle
  • Sea Shepherd discover new whale species in Mexico
  • Oregon land board moves forward on Elliot State research forest proposal
  • $14 million from the USAID to develop ecotourism in the Noubale-Ndoki park
  • Wetland stakeholders develop a management plan for the wise use and conservation of the Bang Pakong River
  • IUCN promotes resilience in the face of pandemic impacts in Mexico, Central America and Caribbean
  • IUCN launches the Global Standard for Nature-Based Solutions in Asia
  • Paul Sein Twa, co-founder of KESAN and Salween Peace Park in Myanmar, receives Goldman Environmental Prize
  • In China, public support grows to rein in the wild trade in the wake of the pandemic
  • Dogs in Brazil are being trained to sniff out COVID in humans
  • Deep=sea ‘gold rush’: secretive plans to carve up the seabird decried
  • New York’s $225 Billion Pension Fund is dropping fossil fuel stocks
  • Shift to a not-so-frozen north is well underway, scientists warn
  • Ahead of anticipated US climate treaty return, Norway boosts support for rainforest protection
  • Lizards and snakes bring halt to work on Tesla plant near Berlin
  • Coalition calls on Service to maintain endangered status for red-cockaded woodpecker
  • Bald eagles are no longer endangered in Vermont, experts say, after 30 years of recovery
  • First babies of endangered whale species born off Florida, Georgia
  • Reptiles smuggled from Mexico found at German airport stitched inside dolls
  • Deforestation wiped out 8% of Amazon in 18 years
  • Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department
  • Coca-cola, Pepsi and Nestle named top plastic polluters for third year in a row
  • Investors can now trade water futures
  • Money to burn – study finds fire-prevention incentives in Indonesia don’t work
  • Japan’s capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia
  • New study finds Humboldt Bay is among the most important places in the entire hemisphere for migratory shorebirds
  • Loose DNA in seawater offers a new measure of marine populations
  • The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
  • House passes bill to ban exploitation of Big Cats
  • EPA overrides scientists’ calls for tougher pollutant limit
  • Breakthrough material makes pathway to hydrogen use for fuel cells under hot, dry conditions
  • Scientists discover new species on seafloor
  • New plant species from Amazonia region named after Dresden botanist
  • Animals are using Utah’s largest wildlife overpass earlier than expected
  • International lawyers draft plan to criminalize ecosystem destruction
  • Mount Everest: China and Nepal agree on new, taller height
  • African ministers of the environment commit to support a greed COVID recovery plan
  • Gharials bounce back in Punjab but the real test is breeding
  • Rare Pygmy Possums just got rediscovered after fears that bushfires wiped them out
  • Natural selection plays major role in an organism’s capacity to evolve and adapt
  • EU renewables energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia’s protected area
  • Worker feared dead as landslide hits quake-prone dam in orangutan habitat
  • Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
  • Biological diversity evokes happiness
  • French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation
  • Sale of Arctic Refuge oil and gas leases in set for early January
  • Plants compete for underground real estate affects climate change and food production
  • New frog genus found in Andaman Islands
  • On the hunt for alternatives to shark squalene vaccines
  • Rare Nevada plant damaged by wild animals, not humans, feds say
  • Study shows promising material can store solar energy for months or years
  • 17 sentenced to imprisonment for illegal trade in wildlife products
  • UKs first all-electric car charging forecourt opens in Essex
  • Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’ urges UN agriculture agency chief
  • Climate crisis to triple flooding threat low-income US homes by 2050
  • A grassroots push to save disappearing birds and bees forces change in Germany
  • National Zoo’s panda cub takes first steps
  • Endangered Sea Turtles are recovering after ‘cold stunning’ event
  • Madagascar moves to reopen domestic trade in non-precious timber
  • LA began 2020 with a clean-air streak but ended with its worst smog in decades
  • Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry
  • The Greenland Ice Sheet is fast losing mass and there may be no way to stop it
  • In rare show of solidarity, 14 key nations commit to protect oceans
  • Africa’s environment ministers pledge support for green COVID recovery
  • Cut fossil fuels production to ward off ‘catastrophic warming
  • Singapore approves sale of cell-based chicken meat
  • Layers of regulations to protect European seas not working, audit finds
  • Overfishing of sharks in the Red Sea sparks outcry
  • 3 major UK retailers are banning glitter this Christmas
  • Nissan leaves White House’s fight against California car rules
  • Blue hydrogen use will boost fossil fuels industry. Ottawa warned
  • Endangered Vancouver Island marmots are making a comeback
  • Japan plans to join the pack and ban sales of new gasoline cars by 2030
  • Whale Sharks huge bodies mean they’ve never really been cold-blooded
  • US Army Corps reports a large oil spill into the Colombia River
  • Two centuries of Monarch butterflies show evolution of wing length
  • Endangered animals threatened by pandemic as ecotourists stay home
  • Every major bank has now ruled out funding Arctic drilling
  • Ecuador finds nest of huge endangered sea turtle
  • Vegan investment fund goes public in Canada
  • New species of Dancing springtail discovered in Krka
  • New species of bat has been found and it flapped around 16 million years ago
  • New marine protection zone will help endangered penguins and more
  • DNR announces wolf season after removal from endangered species list
  • US plans to protect thousands of mils of coral reefs in Pacific and Caribbean
  • California campgrounds to close when COVID stay at home order starts
  • Offshore drilling set to begin off Florida alarms environmentalists
  • Extremely rare white cougar highlights a quirk of the species
  • Washington whale research group buys ranch to help local orcas
  • White House appoints NOAA climate skeptic to panel selecting National Medal of Science winners
  • KwaZulu-Natal poaching increases since lockdown level 1
  • Atlas reveals birds pushed further north amid climate crisis
  • Ecuador’s palm oil law a boon for producers, but not people and planet
  • Colorado High School students post video pleading with local authorities to ban fracking
  • Satellites can see the pollution trails from individual ships
  • Crowds of Indian farmers gather for days to protest new agriculture laws
  • Hidden structure found in essential metabolic machinery
  • Norway bumps rate to protect rainforest amid anticipated US climate return
  • As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy
  • Humanity’s construction footprint in the seas amounts to 32,000 square kilometers
  • Common tire chemical implicated in mysterious deaths of at-risk salmon
  • New York state assembly passes ban on toxic chemicals in food packaging
  • UN will build global coalition for carbon neutrality in 2021
  • Minnesota gives final green light to disputed oil pipeline
  • Researchers uncover key clues about the solar system’s history
  • Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
  • A mining company is about to receive sacred Apache land
  • The Great Barrier Reef is now officially in critical condition
  • Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees
  • Up to 48 species saved from extinction by conservation efforts
  • Confiscated parrots fly free again over DR Congo forests
  • Researchers call for restoring human-forest connections in the Boundary Waters
  • China just powered up its artificial sun fusion reactor
  • Scientists just mapped 1 million new galaxies in 300 hours
  • World is doubling down on fossil fuels despite climate crisis
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Conservation News ~ 4 December 2020

12/4/2020

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  • Us Fish and Wildlife Service decides against listing hitch under Endangered Species Act
  • Endangered Species Protection sought for rare Oregon wildflower
  • Global soils underpin life future looks bleak, warns UN report
  • Another indigenous elder lost to COVID in the Amazon
  • Mystery of Siberian freshwater seal food choice solved
  • Canadian Liberals introduce bill to implement UN indigenous rights declaration
  • New agreement brings large-scale dam removal a step closer
  • US storage deployments shatter record in Q3, with 7.5 GW projected by 2025
  • 27,000 acres gifted to UF for conservation, outdoor classroom, and laboratory
  • Study finds only 300 swift parrots could remain as Tasmanian court challenge heard
  • Denmark bans future offshore oil and gas licensing and ends all offshore production by 2050
  • Astronomers unveil most detailed 3d map yet of Milky Way
  • Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park
  • Coronavirus risk grows as animals move through wildlife trade
  • Study finds fire-prevention incentives in Indonesia don’t work
  • French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation
  • Exxon know of climate change in 1981 but it funded deniers for 27 more years
  • New Zealand declares climate emergency and has pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2025Pilihbit Tiger Reserve in India wins the inaugural TX2 award after doubling its tiger population
  • China vows to boost ‘weather modification’ capabailities
  • The crypto-creature from the deep: Researchers get rare video of bigfin squid
  • San Jose set to become largest U.S. city to ban natural gas in almost all new construction
  • India’s railways bring back tea in clay cups in bid to banish plastics
  • UK seeks site for world’s first fusion power station
  • UN Chief says humans are waging a suicidal war on nature
  • New tuberous species of begonia found in southern Yunnan
  • Mary Nichols is a contender for head of the EPA in a Biden administration
  • UK to become first country in Europe to ban live animal exports
  • Duff Reef declared a sanctuary
  • Officials rescue a 16-ft giraffe stranded on a flooding island in Kenya
  • COVID perfect storm threatens conservation in Africa
  • Indian government forms national panel to drive Paris Agreement goals
  • Namibia to auction 170 elephants over drought, increased population
  • Climate change is damaging more World Heritage sites
  • wildlflower meadows to line Engalnd’s new roads in boost for biodiversity
  • Auditors slam EU for marine protected areas that fail to protect ocean
  • Latest griffon vulture census demonstrated rewilding success in Rhodope Mountains
  • California Assembly expands rights for Native American tribes
  • World’s biggest iceberg is fraying at the edges
  • Scientists warn of the social and environmental risks tied to the energy transition
  • Hungary bans mink, fox, and ferret fur farming
  • Reforestation projects should include tree diversity targets
  • Hawaii’s fresh water leaks to the ocean through underground rivers
  • Stickleback study reveals ‘parallel’ evolution
  • Fear of predators shapes entire ecosystems
  • As the climate warms, leaves on some trees are dying earlier
  • Dolphins growing pressure as development eats into Borneo’s interior
  • Countries fall short on UN pledge to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020
  • The glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are running away
  • Layers of regulations to protect European seas ‘not working’ audit finds
  • Unprecedented sightings of maned wolves in Amazon herald a changing landscape
  • Pulp producers pull of $168 million Indonesia tax twist
  • Alleged government linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains
  • Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world
  • Global sustainable fishing initiative agreed by 14 countries
  • Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world that are rarely measured
  • The UN cancelled its 2020 climate summit and youth held one anyway
  • Elephants can lose two bathtubs full of water in a single day when it gets hot
  • New report offers clearest picture yet of pandemic impact on student learning
  • Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume
  • Europe plans space claw to capture orbiting junk
  • Piedmont halts north Greenville gas pipeline plans after outcry
  • Georgina Mace, who shaped list of endangered species, dies at 67
  • Automakers pledge to work with Biden to reduce emissions
  • Air monitors routinely miss pollution
  • More forests dies as warming cranks up fires, slows regrowth
  • Contaminants in New Jersey soil and water are toxic
  • Canada give BP okay to explore in Marine Conservation area
  • Border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars
  • Mountain pine trees that feed grizzlies is threatened
  • Senate approves two energy regulators, completing panel
  • New fish data reveal evolutionary bursts create species
  • In Japan aquaculture is deployed in the defense of endangered species
  • Glyphosate likely harms nearly all endangered species
  • Newly discovered 8-mile rock art in the Amazonian show the rainforest’s earliest inhabitants
  • 27,000 acres gifted to UF for conservation, outdoor classroom and laboratory
  • Arecibo telescope, ending 57-year run
  • Bank of America says it won’t finance oil and gas exploration in the Arctic
  • Researchers note new Cretaceous species, by a nose
  • New snail subspecies with upside down shell found in Manila
  • Poaching cases drop in Namibia
  • Beavers build first dam in Exmoor in more than 400 years
  • Chinese submarine reaches the deepest place on Earth
  • Video shows the world’s rarest boa found in Sete Barras, Brazil
  • Amazon deforestation tops 11,000sq km in Brazil, reaching 12-year high
  • Scottish homes to be first in world to use 100% green hydrogen
  • International lawyers draft plan to criminalize ecosystem destruction
  • Decaying jellyfish blooms can cause temporary changes to water column food
  • Waorani peoples’ struggle to protect the Amazon honored with this year’s 2020 Goldman Prize
  • Amid tensions in Myanmar, an indigenous Park of Peace is born
  • Australia’s emissions fell 3% in year to June amid COVID shutdown
  • Celebrities to champion threatened wildlife for Day of Remembrance of Lost Species
  • Madagascan fossil turns bird evolutionary anatomy on its head
  • See the new primate species – Popa Langur – discovered in Myanmar
  • Environment to benefit from biggest farming shake-up in 50 years
  • Effort to rescue endangered turtles becomes a Thanksgiving odyssey
  • Bird napper on the lose after stealing endangered species from Fresno zoo
  • Beneficial and harmful fungi are a the root of forest diversity
  • World’s loneliest elephant heads to Cambodia after Cher campaign
  • European states ordered to respond to youth activists climate lawsuit
  • Rare whale skeleton discovered in Thailand
  • Climate apocalypse fears stopping people having children
  • Fireball over Germany most probably asteroid fragment
  • Research shows whipping horses doesn’t make them run faster, straighter or safer – let’s cut it out
  • Tribes halt major copper mine on ancestral lands in Amazon
  • Tasmania power becomes 100% renewables
  • New species of gecko found in the eastern ghats
  • Endangered sea turtles knocked off course find refuge at Tennessee Aquarium over holiday
  • Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots are making a comeback
  • New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness
  • Canada give BP okay to explore in marine conservation area
  • Rein in advertising to help tackle climate crisis
  • Algae can be made to photosynthesize hydrogen in step towards clean fuel
  • EPA’s final deregulatory rush runs into open staff resistance
  • New species of burrowing frog named after Bengaluru
  • COVID pandemic forces endangered species smugglers into using cargo shipments
  • Moth wings covered in sound-absorbing stealth material can avoid bats’ echolocation
  • Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil executives, orders prison
  • Climate change drives plants to extinction in the Black Forest in Germany
  • Denmark could dig up and cremate mink killed in COVID cull
  • SWISS to vote on tougher responsibility proposal for companies
  • Chameleon last seen a century ago rediscovered in Madagascar
  • Groundbreaking study finds 13.3 quadrillion plastic fibers in California’s environment
  • Turns out, lots of Australia’s mammals glow under UV light
  • Climate change may make autumn leaves fall early and store less carbon
  • Medicinal plant may have evolved camouflage to evade humans
  • European Space Agency signs $102 million deal to bring space trash home
  • Bird flu fears grow after spate of mysterious UK swan deaths
  • Indonesian activists slam Jurassic Park plan for Komodo dragon habitat
  • Alex Trebek donated 62 acres of open space near Runyon Canyon
  • 102 Species at risk of extinction in the Fraser River estuary in British Colombia
  • Large trees in the sub-Himalayan sal forests are important for foraging woodpeckers
  • EU to ban use of lead shot by wetlands bird hunters
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Conservation News ~ 27 November 2020

11/27/2020

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  • German researchers compile world’s largest inventory of known plant species
  • $10m initiative seeks to boost farmers, economy and environment with grazing
  • Indonesians join effort to save endangered orangutan
  • US Government denies petition to designate Giant Devil Ray as endangered species
  • Totoaba trafficking arrests made in Mexico
  • California Attorney General Adds Endangered Species Act Claim to Lawsuit Challenging White House
  • A new species of filament barb found in the Western Ghats
  • 'Remarkable' Antarctica species 'new to science' discovered 1000 metres below ice
  • Major oil and gas companies join program to cut methane emissions
  • Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up
  • Europe signs $102m deal to bring space trash home
  • Invenergy unveils 1.3gw solar project set to be US’ largest
  • Indigenous groups vow to keep resisting as construction is approved for Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
  • Extremely rare species of whale, North Atlantic Right Whale, discovered dead on shore of barrier island off North Carolina
  • Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector
  • Gay penguin power couple hatches a second chick who was neglected by its straight parents
  • Shifts in flowering phases of plants due to reduced insect density
  • Michigan Governor moves to prevent Great Lakes oil spill by shutting down aging pipeline
  • Thousands of Goans are braving a pandemic to stop coal trains
  • Hungary bans mink, fox, and ferret fur farming
  • Wind-solar parks: conflicts galore but India wants more
  • Floating PV and land beside motorways to be included in Portugal’s 2021 solar auction process
  • First new Japanese cockroach species in 35 years discovered by scientists
  • The world’s newest monkey species was found in a lab, not on an expedition
  • A new species of rare phylum Loricefera discovered in deep-sea surrounding Japan
  • Understanding the appeal of alternative medicine can help protect the endangered species
  • Federal officials reject state petition to delist Arctic ringed seals from Endangered Species Act
  • Glyphosate’s effects on endangered species scrutinized in new EPA docs
  • US rejects controversial Alaska Pebble Gold, Copper Mine
  • More than 120 whales die in mass stranding on Chatham Islands
  • For the first time, scientists detect the ghostly signal that reveals the engine of the universe
  • Researchers find most shark fins in fish markets are from species in caught in coastal zones, not the open ocean
  • UK supermarket and fast-food chicken linked to deforestation in Brazil
  • Most migratory birds rely on a greening world
  • Indonesian fisheries minister arrested over graft in lobster policy
  • Californian cave artists may have used hallucinogens
  • Snowy Plovers reclaim suddenly quiet beaches
  • Cravings for social contact mimic hunger in the brain
  • Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru
  • The extinction of ice age mammals may have forced us to invent civilization
  • Cosmic statisticians say intelligent life really can’t exist anywhere else
  • IUCN opens nominations for the first-ever international ranger awards
  • Luisa the Manatee returns to the oceans in time for Manatee moth after rehab at Florida Zoo
  • New Zealand couple shuns developers to give 900 hectares of land to nation
  • Massive swarm of eels is the most fish ever recorded at the bottom of the ocean
  • Judge voids permits for Columbia river methanol plant orders new environment review
  • Leaf-cutter ant first insect found with biomineral body armour
  • Dallas Safari Club says captive-bred lion hunting not acceptable
  • Hundreds of new genomes help fill the bird ‘tree of life’
  • Investors plan major move into renewable energy infrastructure
  • A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake
  • CDFW awards $10.7 million for fisheries habitat restoration program projects
  • At 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise
  • Biden has promised to kill the Keystone XL pipeline and activists hope he’ll nix Dakota Access too
  • UN warns of deadlier pandemics
  • Amazon initiative pays farmers and ranchers to keep the forest standing
  • World Trade Organization is negotiating new agreement to protect our oceans from overfishing
  • Not just lizards – alligators can regrow their tails too
  • CO2 hits new record despite Covid lockdown
  • Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course
  • The newest species of Philippine false geckos is the 10th
  • Scientists slams climate change deniers in brilliant viral post
  • New species of glowing mushroom found growing on dead bamboo in India
  • New micro-animal species named after Bangor high school student
  • Weird gelatinous creature shaped like a party balloon is a new species
  • More wolves spotted in Colorado, animal remains a state endangered species
  • Lubbock included in proposed plan to rescue two endangered species of fish
  • France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy
  • Philippine ‘raptor boy’ shows it takes a village to protect a migration route
  • Curiosity finds evidence of megaflood on Mars
  • Climate change is intensifying the tsunami threat in Alaska
  • The 21st century threat to wildlife is cyberpoaching
  • Wildlife diseases poised to spread northwards as climate changes
  • Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook
  • John Kerry is named presidential envoy for climate
  • Waste activist digs into the sanitation crisis affecting the rural poor
  • GM flips to California’s side in pollution fight against White House
  • Secret Amazon reports expose the company’s surveillance of labor and environmental groups
  • IKEA to make 50 percent of food menu plant-based by 2025
  • Bottlenose dolphins could disappear from Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil
  • Mongabay launches in Hindi to expand environmental journalism in India
  • An indigenous effort to return Condors to the Pacific Northwest nears its goal
  • Photographer captures rare photos of Minnesota Black Wolf
  • Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants
  • Australia’s platypus habitat has shrunk 22% in 30 years
  • 8 new species added to Wyoming Champion Tree register
  • World’s last known white giraffe gets GPS tracking device
  • Google Cloud helps animal conservation in Cameroon
  • Elephant trapped in Indian well rescued in 12-hour crane operation
  • SD city council approves Riverwalk San Diego project, clears way for 4,300 homes
  • Global map of bees created in conservation first
  • Scientists have discovered a new stingray and named in ‘six-eyed’
  • Conservation park worth R100-billion to be built in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Microplastic pollution found near summit of Mount Everest
  • Rare species of small cats inadequately protected
  • Tiger Kind star accused of inhumane treatment, violating Endangered Species Act
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Conservation News ~ 20 November 2020

11/20/2020

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  • Lews Hamilton urges 30 million fans to go vegan on heels of historic Formula One win
  • Fears for a million livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania as Mara River fish die out
  • 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions
  • A wave of infrastructure projects to cause widespread deforestation in coming decades
  •  A new species of Rain Frog (Brevicipitidae, Breviceps) endemic to Angola
  • New species of fish found in Asifabad dist
  • World’s Largest Seagrass Restoration Project is a Virginia Success, Planting 600 Acres That Grow to Become 9,000
  • White House Pushes New Environmental Rollbacks On Way Out The Door"
  • Unlikely Alliance of Farm, Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change
  • Tribes Sue Interior for Approving Keystone XL Pipeline Route
  • Loeffler-Warnock Ga. Senate Runoff Offers Extreme Contrasts on Climate
  • Fossil Fuel lobbyist To Seek Top Spot On Energy And Natural Resources Committee"
  • Flint, Other Defendants Agree To Settle Water Lawsuit For $641.2 Million
  • Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Advisers Quit Over Pipeline Permit
  • The Tegu, a Dog-Size Lizard, Is Spreading Through The Southeastern U.S.
  • Race to save Romania’s 65 million year old fish
  • A Philippine community sees life-saving payoffs  from restoring its mangroves
  • Benin Navy nabs trawler fishing illegally near ecological reserve
  • Michigan Governor moves to prevent Great Lakes oil spill by shutting down aging pipeline
  • New species  - tiny snail with ‘muffin-top’ discovered in Laos cave
  • Paleontologists uncover three species of extinct walruses in Orange County
  • Court upholds Obama-era protections for Alaska’s brown bears, disallows baiting
  • 16 organizations that will be receiving first $800 million from The Bezos Earth Fund
  • Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission is honored with the George Rabb Conservation Medal
  • The UK just created a huge marine sanctuary in the remote South Atlantic
  • Canada shocked by killing of rare white moose
  • Scientists find and destroy Giant Murder Hornet nest in Washington State
  • Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged deep beneath China
  • White House moves to sell oil rights in Arctic Refuge
  • Indigenous group scoops up billion dollar seafood firm
  • Conservation Groups sue USFWS to save wild Red Wolves
  • Seychelles waters’ depths reveal discoveries of new species
  • Scientists discover 5 new species of vine snake in India
  • DNR seeks public input for updated wolf management
  • Joint effort to rescue endangered native pond turtles proves successful
  • California rules insects not protected by Endangered Species Act
  • Scientists measure the true cost of conservation
  • New fish species found in Kawal Tiger Reserve
  • Common herbicide likely to harm endangered species, US EPA says
  • Bribery-tainted coal plant in Indonesia held up as landowners hold out
  • ‘We packed long underwear and never wore it’: Arctic scientists shocked at warming
  • Russia rules out cutting fossil fuel production in next few decades
  • Tiny Atlantic island takes giant leap towards protecting world’s oceans
  • Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on indigenous lands
  • World heritage status for Scottish peat bogs could help UK hit net zero goals
  • Elizabeth Warren calls out CEOs for ‘weak and meaningless’ climate commitments
  • Ending greenhouse gas emissions may not stop global warming
  • San Francisco bans natural gas in new building
  • Expert panel recommends Victorian platypuses to be listed as vulnerable
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