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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 ~ 26 June 2020

6/26/2020

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  • Microplastics found for first time in Antarctica’s food chain
  • Global warming shortens spring feeding season for Mule Deer in Wyoming
  • 2020 Human Development Report to focus on meeting people’s aspirations in balance with the planet
  • Almost 50 Blue Whales spotted off the coast of San Francisco
  • Early Plant DNA researcher at Chicago’s Field Museum dies at 35
  • Colombia’s capital city moves to completely ban bullfighting
  • Ford takes comprehensive approach to sustainability will be carbon neutral by 2050
  • Polls show most Americans want action on climate change; swing voters are moved by it
  • Adani lands conservation area ‘126 times’ bigger than mine
  • New velvet spider species is named after actor Joaquin Phoenix for his role in the Joker
  • Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor
  • Pandemic cleaner air could reshape what we know about the atmosphere
  • A palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua
  • Whit Rhinos numbers increased 34,000
  • Maine has latest $150M Green Bonds purchase protects pristine water parcel
  • US unveils vision for more development in National Forests
  • Conservation creates more jobs than fossil fuel development
  • Tree-planting campaigns can reduce, not improve biodiversity
  • Most American believe the government should do more to combat climate change
  • Godzilla dust cloud from Sahara blankets Caribbean on its way to US
  • Long Beach and 13 partner cities and agencies, win class action lawsuit
  • Alaskan megaeruption may have helped end the Roman Republic
  • Dutch Parliament votes to shut down all 128 mink farms
  • Malawi court convicts 7 Chinese, 2 Malawians on wildlife crimes
  • Maasai farmers offer Kenya’s Wildlife a lifeline
  • Nebraska farmers return land to Ponca Tribe in effort to block Keystone XL
  • Residents hide as macaque gangs take over Thai city
  • Facebook allows climate denial to Flourish on its platform
  • Amazon launches $2bn clean tech venture fund
  • Researchers find three new species of geckos lurking under granite rocks in the Mysore Plateau
  • Government urged to tackle UK carbon emissions by working with nature
  • Trillion-dollar investors warn Brazil over dismantling of environmental policies
  • Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration
  • China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change
  • Indonesian court jails indigenous farmers from stealing from land they claim
  • Republicans, Democrats agree on opposing drilling off Florida’s Gulf, Atlantic coasts
  • Trudeau announces $100m investment in Canada’s plant-based protein industry
  • China’s annual dog-meat fair opens despite COVID
  • Pangolins return to region where they were once extinct
  • New Ocelot spotted at Laguna Atascosa
  • Endangered smoky mouse, feared wiped out during bushfires, found alive in Kosciuszko
  • Study shows positive YouTube videos of wolves linked to greater tolerance
  • Barcelona Opera reopens with an audience of plants
  • Indonesia resumes release of captive wildlife amid COVID
  • CocaCola is again the world champion in plastic pollution
  • Vatican calls on catholics to divest from fossil fuels
  • One-fifth of Earth’s ocean floor is now mapped
  • Manatee mother and calf released in Sarasota
  • New monkey species found hiding in plain sight
  • Undergraduate student discovers 18 new species of aquatic beetle in South America
  • Hello Kitty dives into campaign to protect coral reefs
  • French Citizens’ council on the environment proposes making ‘ecocide’ illegal
  • Endangered Australian fish routinely being sold in shops and restaurants
  • COVID lockdown reveals human impact on wildlife
  • A water crisis looms for 270 million people as South Asia’s glaciers shrink
  • Siberia Arctic hits 100 degrees Fahrenheit
  • British Colombia poised to lose ‘white rhino of old growth forests’
  • Stuck at home, scientists discover 9 new species of phorid flies
  • US demand for clean energy destroying Canada’s environment, indigenous peoples say
  • Assam’s endangered langurs observed to practice forced abortion
  • Italian team covers glacier with giant white sheet to slow melting
  • To recover from global recession, we must invest in nature
  • Last chance for the Persian Leopard: the fight to save the Iraqi Kurdistan forests
  • Researchers capture drone footage of African ‘tree lions’ in conservation study
  • Swiss researchers identify new bacteria in permafrost
  • New lizard species discovered by Uddhav Thackeray’s son
  • Floppy-nosed antelope has baby boom, raising hope for critically endangered species
  • One of the world’s rarest dolphins is rebounding in Pakistan
  • COVID is jeopardizing world’s protected areas
  • Agriculture secretary directs national forests be used for more mining, oil, and gas
  • Australia: Million hectares of endangered species' habitat cleared without federal approval
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Conservation News ~ 19 June 2020

6/19/2020

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  • New species of orchid native to Singapore discovered in Bukit Timah Reserve
  • New Species from World’s largest spider group found in Sri Lanka for first time
  • 38 endangered Brazilian tree species illegally traded, poorly tracked
  • Iceland is undoing carbon emissions for good, turning C02 into stone
  • A robot sloth will survey endangered species
  • World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert
  • Forest loss escalates biodiversity change
  • White House blocks tribes from protecting their waters
  • Mangrove collapse inevitable unless emissions are curbed
  • Chimps prefer human crops and it’s better for them
  • From a Philippine conflict hotspot, a new insect-eating plant emerges
  • Indonesia struggles to restore peatlands as fires strangle national parks
  • Canadian grocery store grows its own organic veggies on rooftop
  • PG&E ordered to pay $4 million for Camp fire that killed 84
  • Federal approval of oil well at Carrizo Plain National Monument sparks outrage
  • Globally renowned Kayapo Chief Paiakan passes away due to COVID
  • Creator of Conservation Biology, Michael Soule, passes away
  • New Jersey announces $400 million offshore wind port
  • SD Zoo baby pygmy hippo makes splashy debut
  • Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  • Most of BCs massive old trees are ghosts, existing only on paper
  • European Rewilding Network becomes Belgian rewilding initiative
  • Gujarat now home to 674 lion, 29% increase in population
  • New species of mimicking spider camouflaged like a dried-up leaf discovered in China rainforest
  • BC mine proposed in critical caribou habitat shows how endangered species fall through the cracks
  • Trans Mountain pipeline spills up to 50,000 gallons of oil on indigenous land in BC
  • Peru declares new conservation area protecting almost 200 species found nowhere on the planet
  • Brazilian government taken to court for assault on environment, climate
  • Scottish salmon farmers to be banned from shooting seals
  • Wildlife advocated sue Forest Service over rising wolf body count in Washington
  • Lawsuit launched challenging Endangered Species Act denial for imperiled Sage Grouse
  • Senate Passes the Great American Outdoors Act
  • Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK
  • Climate models underestimate CO2 emissions from permafrost by 14 percent
  • World’s rarest seal finds refuge on notorious prison island
  • 40k Conservationists ask Utah to spare Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf
  • As EPA steps back, states face wave of requests for environmental leniency
  • A possible record number of Blue Whales at the Farallones
  • Supreme Court clears way for Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross Appalachian trail
  • New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
  • A new species of diamond frog from Northern Madagascar
  • Victorian government found to have failed to protect critically endangered grasslands
  • Magnetic Sponge MOF captures carbon with record energy efficiency
  • Ag Secretary announces Forest Service Policy changes during Missoula stop
  • Amazon River dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed
  • New jumping spider species in the Philippines
  • NOAA Chief violated ethics code in furor over White House tweet
  • 1,000 California Condor recently tagged
  • Extremely rare white Killer Whale named Iceberg
  • EPA’s new rule will protect polluters, not the environment
  • Poachers arrested for killing Endangered Silverback Gorilla
  • Nevada takes important step to protect Endangered Fish
  • Supreme Court leaves Clean Water Act intact
  • Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions
  • Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push
  • Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia
  • Conservation Fund acquires iconic Pine Forest in Western Maine
  • Novel endemic dogfish species discovered from Japan
  • Bipartisan Bill could help boost Florida’s growing EV market
  • Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election
  • Sea cucumber smuggler sentenced to 8 months in jail
  • 90 percent of US could be powered by renewables in 2035
  • Anti-poaching dog beloved by Prince Harry retires after catching 200 criminals
  • Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage
  • Environment Ministry unlocked many protected areas during the lockdown
  • Scientists discover that a squid can edit its own genetic code
  • Cape Leopard Trust shares rare sighting of three leopard cubs
  • Channel Island Fox has remarkable recovery story
  • New Zealand recognized all animals as sentient beings
  • BHP halts plans to destroy 40 sacred sites to make way for $4.5bn mine after public outcry
  • Robotic dolphin causing stir in aquariums while solving ethical dilemma
  • BC opens Sunshine Coast forest – home to Canada’s oldest trees – to logging
  • UK’s barn owls are growing in number, thanks to humans
  • Almost complete loss of early salmon runs at Fraser River slide in BC last year
  • French government to launch legal action against bear killers
  • New breeding pair brings glimmer of hope for world’s rarest primate
  • A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has been found
  • South African proposal to breed wildlife for slaughter courts disaster
  • Botanists study spots 42 new tree species in 10 years
  • Newly discovered spider species in Madagascar named after climate activist Greta Thunberg
  • Rwenzori Mountains Park partners with WWF to protect Endangered Species
  • Rare Gorilla Rafiki killed by Uganda hunters
  • 14 straight months of rising Amazon deforestation in Brazil
  • Nature’s slow lanes offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change, other pressures
  • EPA loses major Clean Water Act case on Toxic Spill dispersants
  • Charges dropped against 22 Wet’seuwet’en Land Defenders
  • The International Space Station jut became a powerful tool for tracking animal migration
  • Agile, sickle-clawed new species of velociraptor-like dinosaur unearthed in Patagonia
  • China’s COVID interventions reduced nitrogen dioxide levels
  • Colombian farmers, ranchers join business to turn the tide on Amazon deforestation
  • An armada of 65k sea turtles caught on drone cam, flock to Great Barrier Reef
  • Indonesia to allow back destructive seine and trawl nets in waters
  • In Philippines Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer
  • Indigenous-led conservation signals path forward for Canada’s first marine protected area network
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Conservation News ~ 12 June 2020

6/12/2020

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  • Forest Service to expedite logging and habitat clearance in proposed wilderness on Pine Mountain
  • Elimination of Mexican Gray Wolf pack a blow to conservation efforts
  • NWT First Nations shares prestigious UN prize for environmental work
  • Report finds environmental activists worldwide face high risk of criminalization and violence
  • Plastic Rain is the new Acid Rain
  • Canadian conservation officer fired for refusing to kill bear cubs wins legal battle
  • Brazil revises deforestation data – Amazon loss topped 10,000sq km in 2019
  • Supertrawlers making a mockery of UK’s protected sites
  • Nature provides roadmap to potential breakthroughs in solar energy technology
  • Senegal rejects 52 new foreign fishing licenses
  • Four new species of millipedes discovered in Colorado Caves
  • White House trashes 50 year old environmental law, blaming COVID
  • Oregon Minnow saved by the Endangered Species Act
  • BHP to destroy at least 40 aboriginal sites, up to 15,000 years old, to expand mine
  • Marine energy devices likely pose minimal impacts to marine life
  • Milkweed, only food source for Monarch caterpillars, ubiquitously contaminated
  • Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand
  • China bans pangolin scales in traditional medicine
  • After 130 years, the rarest and thought to be extinct Dwarf Kingfisher was photographed in the Philippines
  • Saudi Aramco exec: capturing carbon emissions can help combat climate change
  • Two new species of iguanas found in Southern Antilles
  • NSW environment minister walks back suggestions clean air strategy has been dropped
  • Federal Court rejects EPA approval of widely used herbicide
  • COVID disrupts global fight to save endangered species
  • White House faces suit on order lifting endangered species protections
  • Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon
  • New list of animals on the brink of extinction
  • China has suspended debt repayment for 77 developing nations
  • Russian oil spill reaches pristine Arctic lake
  • Greta Thunberg calls Bolsonaro a ‘failure’ on COVID as NGOs sue his administration over Amazon destruction
  • 10% of Chinese White Dolphins – 3 of remaining 32- have been killed in just 5 days
  • EPA Clean Air Panel dismisses his oil industry ties, slams Harvard study connecting air pollution and COVID risks
  • China may deploy ducks to battle locust
  • A new Riffle Beetle from Kyushu, Japan
  • Scientists propose new naming system for uncultivated bacteria and archaea
  • A new beetle species has been named after the Beatles
  • Endangered Status sought for Death Valley Region fish
  • Shuttered zoos are hemorrhaging money, and they want federal help for endangered species work they do
  • In COVID lockdown, Glossy Ibis finds prime nesting conditions in Sri Lanka
  • Lockdown allowed illegal fishing to spike in Philippines, satellite data suggests
  • Rare finless porpoises sighted in Hing Kong waters
  • Elizabeth Mrema is Convention on Biological Diversity new Executive Secretary
  • Powerful petrochemical lobbying group advanced anti-protest legislation amid pandemic
  • Ex-astronaut Kathy Sullivan dives to lowest point on Earth
  • Scientists discover strange new Tarantula species with ‘horn’ on its back in Southwestern Africa
  • Largest species of Asianopodus footprints found in Xinjiang
  • Eighteen rare, endangered horses born in China’s Xinjiang
  • Nearly half of Americans breathing unhealthy air
  • A massive oil spill in the Arctic has turned a river red
  • White House allows fishing in New England marine monument
  • Scientists use drones to capture striking footage of colony of 64,000 Green Sea Turtles
  • Two new dinosaurs found in fossils at State Museum of Pennyslvania
  • New species of carnivorous plant found in Kerala
  • Two new species from New Mexico help fill in Evolution of horned dinosaurs
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Conservation News ~ 5 June 2020

6/5/2020

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  • After century of mistaken identity, a Balinese gecko gets its own name
  • Tributes to Jose Rafael Garcia Acosta
  • In Memoriam to Guy Suzon Ramangason
  • Three new bird species discovered in Peru
  • US ranks 24th in the world on environmental performance
  • Baby orangutan born in Indonesia boosts numbers of the critically endangered species
  • Endangered species of seahorse returns to former stronghold due to lockdown
  • French researchers show that agroforestry can climate-proof grapes
  • Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19
  • New data shows world lost a Switzerland-size area of primary rainforest
  • Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change
  • New toxic seaweed species has exploded in Long Island Bays
  • Maine conservation groups want salmon listed endangered species list
  • EPA limits states’ power to oppose pipelines and other energy projects
  • More types of mosquito discovered in Yukon  - that’s 33 and counting
  • New Pterosaur species identified from fossil found in England
  • State urged to include Atlantic salmon on endangered species list
  • Conservation efforts save endangered Hainan gibbon from the brink of extinction
  • Congo hit by a second, simultaneous Ebola outbreak
  • Japanese whale hunters killed 122 pregnant whales
  • New helmet orchid species discovered in Palawan
  • Court orders NS government to better protect endangered species
  • New species of Dumbo Octopus captured on camera at 4.3 miles down in the Indian Ocean
  • Top court rules Nova Scotia broke endangered species law
  • Guardians, 200 groups call on Congress to invest in Economic and Ecological recovery
  • EU’s greenhouse gas emission continue to fall as coal ditched
  • Department of Justice sued for withholding information about stabbing, shooting, and burning animals for medical research
  • Nobel laureates condemn judicial harassment of environmental lawyer
  • Plunging solar energy prices spell bright future for clean electricity
  • A Polynesian Paradise sacrificed its economy to stay virus-free
  • In Sri Lanka, bushmeat poachers haven’t let up during lockdown
  • Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest
  • Teen creates fashion line while helping the environment
  • Court rejects Koch Brothers-funded Group’s attack on rare Texas arachnid
  • Southern California flower recovered, no longer needs Endangered Species protection
  • Antarctic Ocean reveals new signs of rapid melt of ancient ice, clues about future sea level rise
  • Climate could cause abrupt British vegetation changes
  • Indonesia to receive $56m payment from Norway for reducing deforestation
  • Rare beast visits the beach: Wolverine confirmed in Pacific Country
  • Yukon putting cart before horse by approving roads without completed land use plans
  • White House to sign order to waive environmental reviews for key projects
  • Argentine paleontologists discover new species of small carnivorous dinosaur
  • New species of frailejon discovered in Colombia
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