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Conservation News ~ 27 March 2020

3/27/2020

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  • National Parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to Great Apes
  • Yellow Fever is next great threat to Brazil’s Golden Lion Tamarin
  • Indonesia ends timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom
  • Huge Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court rules DAPL permits violated law
  • New research suggests ancient Mercury had the right stuff for life
  • Oregon organization opposing Jordan Cove LNG send a huge thank you to Governor Kate Brown
  • New species of flying reptile with spiked teeth discovered
  • Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group
  • Agency drafts conservation plan to protect Hawaii seabirds
  • Palm Oil giant Olam under scrutiny again over Gabon plantations
  • First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve
  • Chilean authorities eye controversial Cruz Grande port project
  • In race for a sustainable alternative to plastic, Indonesia bets on seaweed
  • National parks pay the price as land conflicts intensify in Colombia
  • All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in 1089-page monograph
  • Activist-led lawsuit alleges EPA glyphosate weedkiller approval violated Endangered Species Act
  • New genetic editing powers discovered in squid
  • Illegal wildlife trade goes online as China shuts down markets
  • Goldman Prize-winning Cambodian activist arrested, released in Cambodia
  • New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project
  • Scientists call for independent review of dam project in orangutan habitat
  • From vegetable plots in a Sri Lankan swamp, a forgotten eel emerges
  • Spain and Portugal take illegal ivory off the black market
  • Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils
  • Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos may benefit Colombia’s environment
  • Green groups push for environmental protections in stimulus package
  • Russia lists Caspian seals and killer whales as endangered species after whale jail controversy
  • NASA pauses work on James Webb Space telescope due to COVID-19
  • Malawi government bans bush meat in the wake of COVID-19
  • Shell of bioluminescent shrimp not only glows but detects light
  • Peru uncovers organized crime network laundering illegally mined gold
  • Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin
  • New assessment shows Sri Lanka’s amphibians being pushed to the brink
  • Myanmar releases endangered turtles into Chindwin River
  • Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of life
  • Critically endangered quoll safe from proposed solar farm developer
  • Fight over jaguar habitat in Southwest heads back to court
  • Federally protected lands reduce habitat loss and protect endangered species
  • COVID-19 prompts closure of Indonesian parks, and a chance to evaluate
  • Indonesian activists denounce a road being built illegally in leopard habitat
  • White House hires a trophy-hunting advocate to protect wildlife
  • To save Cross River gorillas, EU-funded program aims to empower communities
  • Geologists find lost fragment of ancient continent in Canada’s North
  • Study: Simply giving species some screen time raises awareness and interest in helping them
  • Number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico down by more than half
  • Wealth fund divests from Peruvian firm after indigenous group complaint
  • Spix’s Macaw return to Brazil
  • Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land
  • International team discovers new species of ancient flying reptiles
  • Seven new species of colorful Peacock Spider join the dance party
  • Tiger King Joe Exotic is suing the government for almost $94 million
  • Coronavirus may mean Botswana’s hunting season is cancelled
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Conservation News ~ 20 March 2020

3/20/2020

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  • Cambodia scraps plans for Mekong hydropower dams
  • Three new species of chameleons emerge from century-old entanglement
  • Mexico’s deadly toll of environment and land defenders catalogued in report
  • Lawsuit seeks to finalize Endangered Species protection for Eastern Black Rail
  • Win for conservation as African black rhino number rise
  • China’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging
  • Study finds that sea turtles might be eating plastic because it smells like food
  • Arctic permafrost moving toward crisis, abrupt that a growing risk
  • The National Park Service has waived entrance fees
  • The coronavirus pandemic drastically reduced carbon emissions
  • Ancient worm finally pegged as new genus
  • As virus shuts down cities in Europe, pollution drops
  • Urban coyotes eat lots of cats and human garbage, poop study finds
  • Two new species of sawsharks found in West Indian Ocean
  • As Italy quarantines over coronavirus, dolphins appear in Venice canals
  • Amazon rainforest reaches point of no return
  • Researchers engineer the world’s first aerogels made from scrap tires
  • Birth of wild tapir offers hope for Brazil’s endangered ecosystem
  • Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic
  • Ecuador’s tallest waterfall suddenly disappeared
  • Madagascar off pace to meet Aichi targets
  • Lack of farmer training worsens Sri Lanka’s growing human-wildlife conflict
  • Dick’s Sporting Goods to phase out hunting department in over 400 stores
  • Mysterious ancient sea-worm pegged as new genus after half-century waste basket
  • Houston Toad/Endangered Species Act – Center for Biological Diversity Judicial Challenge to US
  • Palm oil firm has farmers jailed for harvesting from land it stole from them
  • Critics push back as cable car project for Indonesia’s Rinjani is revived
  • Smaller fragments of forest at risk of greater levels of deforestation
  • Costa Rican caterpillar decline spells trouble for ecosystems
  • 4 Black teens build robot that can remove all plastics in every ocean worldwide
  • YC graduate Genecis Bioindustries turns food waste into compostable plastics
  • New plant species discovered in south China
  • EPA announces new biological evaluations for pesticides under Endangered Species Act
  • Chile’s biosphere reserves get supersized but protection isn’t a given
  • San Francisco’s Michelin-starred restaurant Lazy Bear goes vegan for nine days
  • NASA screens vegan film The Game Changers to prepare for vegan future in outer space
  • Satellite images reveal a dramatic drop in pollution during the corona virus quarantine
  • New fish species accidentally discovered on film
  • Endangered tiger salamander making a comeback in Maryland
  • 17 large-scale solar projects planned in Upstate New York
  • Biodiversity hotspot in India’s Western Ghats reveals yet another undescribed species
  • VW says it will drop 30k ID.3 electric cars at once, will be cheaper than gas cars
  • Two suspected rhino poachers shot dead in KwaZulu-Natal game park
  • Australia MPs dismayed at NSW forestry logging unburnt habitat after bushfires
  • White House is thwarted by court in bid to log biggest national forest
  • Western Lowland Gorillas may be territorial
  • Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports
  • Fish stock plunder costing SA billions
  • Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritizes trees and people – emissions? Not so much
  • Pipeline company to pay more than $60 million for 2015 oil spill near Santa Barbara
  • Florida poised to protect Gulf of Mexico’s largest seagrass bed
  • Major steps taken to implement the Endangered Species Act
  • San Diego Zoo researchers retrieve rhino’s eggs to recover critically endangered species
  • Supreme Court rejects Trans Mountain legal challenges
  • Conservationists cautiously optimistic after Bolivian government changes hands
  • Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world
  • Heat stress may affect more than 1.2 billion people annually by 2100
  • Peruvian women unite against toxic metals pollution and win human rights prize
  • Chinese company claims eating dogs shows ‘cultural confidence’
  • Neom, Saudi Arabia’s $500 billion megacity, reaches its next phase
  • Six-fold jump in polar ice loss lifts global oceans
  • Next generation water splitter could help renewable power the globe
  • Young mountain lion killed trying to cross the 101
  • Wales launches 5m pound national forest scheme
  • Virginia becomes the first state in the South to target 100% clean power
  • A new mantis species rises from the ashes of Brazil’s national museum
  • New species of Musk Shrew discovered in Indonesia
  • Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins
  • Record-high global tree cover loss driven by agriculture
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Conservation News ~ 13 March 2020

3/13/2020

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  • Arizona Gov signs bill cloaking endangered species info
  • Egypt launches project to plant mangrove trees along Red Sea coast
  • Canadian doctors link fracked natural gas to cancer and birth defects
  • Jaguar population rises in Igazu Falls region
  • In Afghanistan, a new national park carries hopes for conservation and peace
  • Remote South American kelp forests surveyed for first time since 1973
  • Discovery of smallest known Mesozoic dinosaur reveals new species in bird evolution
  • A possible end to ‘forever’ chemicals
  • Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports
  • Poachers kill two rare white giraffes
  • Record-high global tree cover loss driven by agriculture
  • Mild winter spurs bears to emerge from hibernation earlier
  • Chance encounter gives SF Zoo rare glimpse of a bald eagle it released 20 years ago
  • New EU rules could spell end of throwaway culture
  • New bug species named after Lady Gaga due to its wacky fashion sense
  • Brazil issues fewest number of environment fines in 24 years
  • Man held at Saigon airport with six kg of rhino horns
  • White House expected to seek aid for shale companies hit by oil rout
  • Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest
  • SeaWorld loss doubles after $32M legal bill
  • Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant
  • Oil firm Shell to end its relationship with BFI and Southbank Centre
  • Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry
  • N$300M boost for Namibian conservation efforts
  • New species of Pitcher Plant discovered in Philippines
  • Palau changes ocean sanctuary plan to allow Japan fishing
  • Yoshi the turtle reaches Australia in record-breaking swim
  • Mexico is literally destroying protected mangrove trees to build an $8billion oil refinery
  • Coronavirus epicenter Hubei bans the eating of wild animals completely
  • Eighty-six dolphins found dead on remote Namibian beach
  • France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories
  • Florida senate just passed the largest shark fin ban in the US
  • Aldi CEO tells suppliers: 100% recyclable or compostable packaging is non-negotiable
  • Supreme Court to hear White House’s appeal about Endangered Species report
  • Endangered species found on Hong Kong supermarket shelves
  • Changes to NEPA could impact our public lands
  • Virginia lawmakers send historic energy bill to governor
  • Predators disproportionately impacted by human land use changes
  • Climate change threatens relationship between polar bears and ringed seals
  • New locust swarms forming in Somalia and Kenya – swarms hitting 20 countries
  • Climate change boosted Australia fire risk by 30%
  • Arctic ocean found teeming with new form of chlamydia
  • Hundreds of critically endangered Giant Sea Bass being released in ocean
  • Pesticides impair the brain development of baby bees
  • Kern County violating law by rubberstamping oil drilling
  • Oat milk sales spike by 686 percent in 2019
  • Fish wearing ‘marine skin’ sensors collect information 6,500 feet below the sea
  • Despite everything, US emissions dropped in 2019
  • Oakland just banned exotic animals in entertainment
  • Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel flying empty ghost planes
  • Lehr discovers new lizard genus in Peruvian Andes
  • Oregon anti-environment group is awash in racism and violent threats
  • Public lands give refuge to endangered species
  • San Antonio Zoo successfully breeds one of world’s most endangered species
  • California orders permanent shutdown of oil drilling site near USC
  • US Coal use is plunging at fastest rate since Eisenhower era
  • New Right Whale protection measures announced by Canadian government
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Conservation News ~ 6 March 2020

3/6/2020

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  • US expands Mexican seafood import ban to save critically endangered Vaquita
  • British hedge fund billionaire Hohn launches campaign to starve coal plants of finance
  • China seizes over 20 tonnes of smuggled wildlife products
  • Fossil of new Eocene-period bird species unearthed in Utah
  • Two new mammal species identified in China’s Huangshan Mountain
  • California to consider placing mountain lions on endangered list
  • Tasmania sets world-leading target of 200 percent renewables by 2040
  • Tropical forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon
  • World’s biggest meat company linked to ‘brutal massacre’ in Amazon
  • Brazil to allow for automatic approval of new agrochemicals
  • Calls to declare koalas endangered as population declines by two-thirds in 20 years
  • Tennis icon Serena Williams launches vegan leather line to tackle animal cruelty
  • As a birthday gift to its king, Bhutan’s Prime Minister asks people to adopt stray dogs or plant a tree
  • Efforts to remove Gray Wolves from endangered species list face oppositions
  • Open letter to EU leaders on why their new climate law is ‘surrender’
  • Nova Scotia will officially be home to North America’s first whale sanctuary
  • Bolsonaro attacks Pope over pontiff’s plea to protect the Amazon
  • Alberta to close or reduce services in 20 parks as a result of budget cuts
  • After more than 240 days, Australia’s New South Wales is finally free from bushfires
  • Scientists have identified a new species of red panda
  • Following Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase announcements, Wells Fargo rejects funding drilling in the Arctic
  • Tech companies take down three million online listings for trafficked wildlife
  • Guam Rails are no longer extinct in the wild
  • More than 80% of Indian Ocean dolphins may have been killed by commercial fishing
  • A new island has been discovered in Antarctica
  • Judge voids oil and gas leases on almost 1 million acres of public lands
  • Climate crisis cutting short Australia’s winters and extending summers
  • Major Canmore wildlife corridor decision made in secret
  • DNA testing reveals Chattanooga Zoo’s Komodo Dragon produced offspring on her own
  • Broad CWD surveillance, hunter assistance help identify 65 CWD-positive deer in 2019
  • Rise in number of snow leopards brings cheer to wildlife enthusiasts
  • Luxembourg becomes first country to make public transport free
  • Welsh woman declares vindication after guerilla rewilding court case
  • Children as young as eight used to pick coffee beans for Starbucks
  • China pollution clears amid coronavirus slowdown
  • Anger as F1 teams get go-ahead to drive on Dutch nature reserve
  • UBC student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitable, Earth-sized worlds
  • Feds reject removal of 4 Snake River dams in key report
  • Threatened species continue to struggle after fires
  • New reptile that swam with the dinosaurs discovered by Vanderbilt professor
  • Newly discovered deep sea crustacean named after Metallica
  • Pennsylvania birds, butterflies, fish and other among species named in federal lawsuit
  • Adorable Cheetah cubs born via IVF to surrogate mother in world first
  • Aquarium of the Pacific welcomes a special sea otter and announces new role in helping sea otter pups
  • LAWSUIT FORCES White House to protect habitat for 12 coral species
  • Denver Zoo gives birth after more than 480 days of pregnancy
  • Landmark win in ‘Fight for Habitable Future’ as jury refuses to convict climate activists
  • Outdoor air pollution cuts three years from human lifespan
  • BC’s orphan fracking wells set to double this year
  • Two years on and Elon Musk’s Australian battery farm is going well
  • More accurate climate change model reveals bleaker outlook on electricity
  • Analysis shows climate finance not reaching most vulnerable
  • More than 3,200 US Dairy farms shut down in 2019
  • Washington bans suction dredging in habitat critical for salmon, other endangered fish
  • NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with indigenous genocide at UN
  • Germany is turning 62 military bases into wildlife sanctuaries
  • Bill Gates just invested in lab-grown palm oil to save the rainforest
  • Brown University sells 90 percent of fossil fuel investments
  • Superyacht produces hydrogen from seawater as it sails
  • Old-growth logging on mountainside above Cathedral Grove illustrates urgent need for protection
  • Scientists found a caterpillar that eats plastic
  • Senators reach $2b deal to boost conservation, parks
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