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Conservation News ~ Aug 26 2017

8/26/2017

Bears near US-Canada border merit endangered status: http://m.startribune.com/judge-bears-near-us-canada-border-merit-endangered-status/441526183/?section=nation
Hawaii sued for violation of Endangered Species Act: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article169049792.html
Endangered Red Panda couple boosts chances for species: http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/844979/red-panda-cub-born-endangered-species
Canada designates new national marine conservation area: http://wildlife.org/canada-designates-new-national-marine-conservation-area/
New bat species recognized: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/yoda-bat-happy-to-be-recognized-as-new-species/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/deforestation-from-gold-mining-in-peru-continues-despite-govt-crackdowns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
Protests in Java continue over geothermal development: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/protests-over-geothermal-development-heat-up-in-central-java/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
Two more grey wolves to be killed in Oregon: http://www.wweek.com/news/state/2017/08/25/the-debate-over-oregons-wolf-policy-intensifies-with-the-announcement-of-more-planned-killings/
Seattle to ban plastic straws and utensils: http://q13fox.com/2017/08/24/seattle-to-ban-plastic-straws-utensils-at-restaurants-next-year/
After protests, US Interior Department won’t eliminate any national monuments: http://ktla.com/2017/08/24/trump-administration-wont-eliminate-any-of-27-national-monuments-under-review-but-may-change-boundaries/
Patagonia spends $700k in first TV ad to blast Zinke:
http://www.theinertia.com/politics/patagonia-spends-700k-in-first-ever-ad-to-blast-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke/
New Pig-nose Frog species found: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/purple-frog-new-species-discovery-india-monsoon/
Brazil launches program that will serve millions of vegan school lunches: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/brazil-serves-vegan-school-lunches/
Pakistan just planted 1 billion trees: https://www.voanews.com/a/one-billion-trees-planted-in-pakistan-nw-province/3983609.html
Russian tanker sails through Arctic without icebreaker for first time: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/24/russian-tanker-sails-arctic-without-icebreaker-first-time
Groundbreaking Harvard study confirms Exxon knew about global warming: https://www.ecowatch.com/exxon-harvard-study-2476138068.html
Brazilian government opens large area to mining: http://fortune.com/2017/08/25/climate-change-fail-brazilian-government-opens-massive-area-of-the-amazon-to-mining/
Rare mammal has been discovered living in Western Australia: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41034631
Three more rangers killed in deadly month for wildlife defenders: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/23/rangers-killed-deadly-month-wildlife-defenders
Bengal Tiger cub rescued in California: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/25/us/tiger-cub-smuggle-attempt/index.html
Reintroduced Fishers are reproducing in the Cascades: http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/reintroduced-fishers-are-reproducing-cascades
Catastrophic escape of Atlantic Salmon from fish farm: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/thousands-of-atlantic-salmon-escape-from-fish-farm-into-pacific
China exceeded 2020 target for solar installations: https://futurism.com/china-just-exceeded-its-2020-target-for-solar-installations/
Vanatu will become first country in the world to ban plastic bottles: http://pacificans.com/vanuatu-will-become-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-ban-plastic-bottles/
Peru approves 10 year strategy to combat wildlife trafficking: https://www.fws.gov/international/articles/peru-approves-10-year-cwt-strategy.html
Dairy milk can be labelled inhumane: https://www.riseofthevegan.com/blog/advertising-standards-authority-confirms-dairy-is-inhumane
California defies claim that environmental regulation kills economic growth: http://grist.org/article/california-defies-trump-claim-that-environmental-regulation-kills-economic-growth/
Chile stops billion-dollar mining project to protect penguins: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chile-stops-billiondollar-mining-project-to-protect-rare-humboldt-penguins/
World’s largest meat company profits drop 80 percent: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9953&catId=1
Animal crossings help reduce road kill by 90%: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/cdot-s-animal-crossings-are-helping-reduce-road-kill
California Condors are nesting in Tulare County: http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/sports/outdoors/pathstopeaks/2017/08/18/california-condors-nesting-tulare-county/570926001/

Conservation News ~ August 18 2017

8/18/2017

Thousands of sharks found on boat in huge illegal haul: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/wildlife-watch-galapagos-illegal-shark-fishing/
Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/17/leading-elephant-conservationist-ivory-shot-dead-in-tanzania
Endangered kiwi chick hatches at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute:
Three Virunga rangers die in Mai-Mai attack: https://thinkprogress.org/border-communities-environmental-destruction-wall-25266cc2b216/
San Diego prepares to fight bac against environmentally catastrophic border wall: https://thinkprogress.org/border-communities-environmental-destruction-wall-25266cc2b216/
Shell and Exxon face censure over claim gas was ‘cleanest fossil fuel’: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/14/shell-and-exxon-face-censure-over-claim-gas-was-cleanest-fossil-fuel
Canada Government cancels Grizzly Bear trophy hunt: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/grizzly-bear-trophy-hunt-to-be-banned-in-b-c-1.21876304
Sea Turtle nests hit record-breaking number on the Suncoast: http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/local/sea-turtle-nests-hit-record-breaking-number-on-the-suncoast/article_9bfab4a8-7d2d-11e7-852c-bf6a02cd331f.html
Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 trillion per year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/07/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-a-staggering-5-tn-per-year
Nine rare Siamese crocodiles hatch in Cambodia: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/9-rare-siamese-crocodiles-hatch-in-cambodian-center/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29

Conservation News ~ August 11 2017

8/11/2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/brazilian-firm-wants-to-build-new-dams-in-amazons-aripuana-basin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
UK is world’s biggest exporter of legal ivory: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/u-k-is-the-worlds-biggest-exporter-of-legal-ivory-data-analysis-shows/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/monkey-rediscovered-in-brazil-after-80-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
Montana conservation group hits 1 million-acre mark for easements:
http://montanauntamed.com/montana-untamed/article_491ad367-5b83-5024-b87d-cdc92cf743c3.html
Scientists hope to breed Asian ‘unicorns’: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/aug/10/saola-unicorn-vietnam-laos-captive-breeding-asia-conservation
Biggest Condor recovery yet: a second-generation wild-born condor: http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/the-biggest-condor-recovery-milestone-yet-a-second-generation-wild/article_72d76590-7d63-11e7-b56c-0b7bc92ac68c.html
Portland man sentenced for smuggling endangered carnivorous plants into US: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/08/man_who_smuggled_endangered_ca.html
Milestone in Pacific Pocket Mouse recovery:
Two tons of ivory crushed in New York: http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/2-tons-of-seized-ivory-to-be-crushed-in-central-park/
USFWS is considering terrible plan for Mexican Grey Wolves: https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3229&s_src=3WDW1711AHTXX&s_subsrc=HeroAd
Costa Rica becomes first country to ban all single-use plastic: http://inhabitat.com/costa-rica-aims-to-become-the-first-country-to-ban-all-single-use-plastics/
ODFW kills 2 wolves: http://www.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20170808/odfw-kills-2-wolves-for-repeated-attacks-on-cattle
Rare Pine Marten caught on camera in Yorkshire for first time in 35 years: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/07/rare-pine-marten-caught-on-camera-in-yorkshire-for-first-time-in-35-years
US refuses to list Pacific Bluefin tuna as endangered:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/07/trump-administration-refuses-to-list-pacific-bluefin-tuna-as-endangered-disappointing-environmentalists/
New species of snake discovered in UK: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/07/new-species-of-grass-snake-discovered-in-england
$Ibn to clean up oil in Peru’s northern Amazon: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2017/aug/03/us1-billion-oil-perus-amazon
Prince Harry’s elephant project has huge success as last Tuskers arrive to paradise: http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/837293/prince-harry-elephant-project-success-paradise-safety-wildlife
A million plastic bottles a minute are being made – 91% of which are not recycled: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/28/a-million-a-minute-worlds-plastic-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change

Conservation News ~ August 5 2017

8/5/2017

US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/us-retailers-halt-sales-of-hardwood-flooring-linked-to-illegal-logging-in-png/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mongabay+%28Mongabay+Environmental+News%29
US eases environment laws for Mexico Border wall near San Diego: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-sandiego-idUSKBN1AH49T
Appeals court upholds endangered species protection for Great Lakes grey wolves: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/02/appeals-court-upholds-endangered-species-protection-great-lakes-gray-wolves/534783001/
Border Wall will put more than 100 endangered species in peril: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-border-wall-endangered-species-expert.html
Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulating system: https://news.yale.edu/2017/07/31/loss-arctic-sea-ice-impacting-atlantic-ocean-water-circulation-system
Mozambique will be stripped of its forest in just a few years: https://mg.co.za/article/2015-03-19-moz-will-be-stripped-of-its-forests-in-just-a-few-years
Pittsburgh city council adopts meatless Mondays: http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9862&catId=1
GE, Invenergy build largest wind farm in US in Oklahoma: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-windfarm-oklahoma-idUSKBN1AB31B
The world invested $264 billion in New Renewables in 2016: https://futurism.com/report-the-world-invested-264-billion-in-new-renewables-in-2016/
Nearly 60k suicides in India linked to global warming: https://news.vice.com/story/60000-suicides-in-india-linked-to-global-warming
New species of mammal described: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-of-adorable-elephant-shrew-described/
Illegal wildlife trade threatens half of world’s natural heritage sites: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39590117
Korean president rescues dog from meat trade: https://www.thedodo.com/impact/south-korea-president-adopts-dog
Mexico City ends marine mammal captivity: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/mexico-city-ends-marine-mammal-captivity/
Meat industry responsible for New Jersey-size marine Dead Zone, largest ever: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/01/meat-industry-dead-zone-gulf-of-mexico-environment-pollution
Oregon Court of Appeals just rejected that wolves are invasive species: http://www.cascwild.org/
A new garbage patch the size of Mexico was just discovered in the Pacific Ocean: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/yet-another-huge-plastic-garbage-patch-has-been-found-in-the-pacific/
California sets its sight on being 100 percent renewable by 2045: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/california-sets-sights-100-percent-renewable-2045/
American Medical Association tells hospitals to go vegan: https://www.peta.org/blog/american-medical-association-hospitals-serve-vegan-meals/
Ranchers fight Keystone pipeline by building solar panels in path: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072017/keystone-xl-pipeline-protest-solar-panels-ranchers-nebraska
Mysterious air crash kills leading Brazilian environmentalists: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/28/inquiry-launched-after-mystery-air-crash-kills-leading-brazilian-environmentalists

Conservation Jobs ~ August 5 2017

8/5/2017

DOW Landscape Conservation and Endangered Species Conservation Coordinator: http://www.defenders.org/jobs/landscape-conservation-and-endangered-species-coordinator
DOW Alaska Outreach Coordinator: http://www.defenders.org/jobs/alaska-outreach-coordinator
Bay Area - Conservation Project Manager: http://www.landtrustalliance.org/job/conservation-project-manager-stewardship-peninsula-open-space-trust
Deschutes Land Trust Outreach Associate: http://www.landtrustalliance.org/job/outreach-associate-deschutes-land-trust
Elkhorn Slough Stewardship Director: http://www.landtrustalliance.org/job/stewardship-director-elkhorn-slough-foundation
San Luis Obispo - Restoration Specialist: http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/restoration-specialist-san-luis-obispo/
Pacific Northwest – Protected Species Observer: http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/pacific-northwest-protected-species-observerpassive-acoustic-monitoring-technician/
Portland, Or – Tetra Tech Environmental Planner: https://environment.uw.edu/career-opportunities/environmental-planner-7/
Wa – Environmental Communications and Outreach Specialist - https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/thurstonwa/jobs/1809853/communications-and-outreach-specialist-education-and-outreach-specialist-ii
Indo – Conservation Program Manager: http://www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-conservation-program-manager-pontianak-west-kalimantan-indonesia--all/150113352094
Seattle – Naturalist: http://www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-naturalist-seattle-washington/150110804079
California Condor Monitoring Tech: http://www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-california-condor-monitoring-technicians-ventura-california/15017127517
Also, the Nature Conservancy has a lot of great jobs. Check out the screenshot below and click here (bc they're system is weird, I can't link to them): https://www.nature.org/about-us/careers/index.htm