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New Species and Conservation People ~ August 2020

8/28/2020

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Species
  • New species of invasive grass found by botanists in Wisconsin
  • The unusual new species of stingray found in a jar
  • New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’
  • New species of Truffle discovered – Tuber luomae
  • New species of fungus sticking out of beetles
  • Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate
  • Beetles dominate as scientists discover new animal species
  • Researchers discover 26 new species of micromulloscs, the size of a grain of sand, off Kimberley
  • New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight
  • New species of ancient giant alligator identified
  • New shrimp species discovered in Panama’s Coiba National Park
  • After 125 years, 140 species of butterflies discovered in Mumbai’s Matheran Hill station
  • Five new species found in Melghat
  • SeaWorld’s revenue has dropped 95% from 2019
  • Blue Whales bounce back after near extinction
  • Florida trappers catch new species of monster-sized snapping turtles- some weighing 100 pounds
  • Six species of Philippine crickets, held nameless in a Hawaii museum
  • New species of Forest Frog discovered Philippines
  • New species of cretaceous brittle star names in honour of Nightwish vocalist
  • Elephant shrew lost to science for 52 years is rediscovered in Africa
  • At least 19 new species discovered at Hainan’s tropical park
  • Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean
 
 
People
  • Wildlands Network announces appointment of new Executive Director, Katie Davis
  • ICUN mourns the death of John Foster CBE
  • Paco Valverde, an ocean hero dedicated to vaquita conservation succumbs to COVID
  • Nalin Indika Munasinghe joins IUCN Sri Lanka Country Office as its new programme coordinator
  • Former CIRES director Konrad Steffen – man who sounded alarm on Greenland ice- dies in Greenland accident
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Conservation News ~28 August 2020

8/28/2020

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  • ​Petition filed to list Western Ridged Mussel as an Endangered Species
  • 39 endangered Great Lakes piping plovers hatch at Detroit Zoo in most successful year ever
  • Embryonic dinosaur skull could mark discovery of new species
  • Mauritians launch rescue to save wildlife from oil spill
  • These scientists are listening to the Borneo rainforest to protect biodiversity
  • Upstate Forever receives $75,000 from Hollingsworth Funds
  • Captive breeding helps New Zealand’s threatened black stilts take flight
  • New UK law to curb deforestation in supply chains
  • Younger generation fail to notice environmental decline due to generational amnesia
  • Elephant poaching falls by 91% in 2 years in Kenya
  • Two new species of Deep Sea Worms discovered
  • Florida trappers catch new species of monster-sized snapping turtles- some weighing 100 pounds
  • St. John flower proposed for endangered species list
  • US proposes more changes to chip away at Endangered Species Act
  • California’s ancient redwoods survive wildfires
  • Bleak milestone- 500 major fires detected in Brazilian Amazon this year
  • Horrific clip shows whale meat dumped in ocean after five butchered in hunt
  • Native Hawaiian tiger-cowries eat alien, invasive species
  • Painting one turbine blade black reduces bird fatalities by 72%
  • Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows goes through process to rename area, removing ‘squaw’
  • With big new park, Atlanta protects a forest with a long history
  • Africa declared free of wild polio              
  • The Nature Conservancy of Canada protects shoreline along Buffalo Pound Lake
  • Scientists use fruit peel to turn old batteries into new
  • COVID pushes vegan egg maker just closer to IPO
  • The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine
  • Senate Democrats recommend trillions in climate investments
  • Wildfires, Hurricanes, Floods, and Droughts quadrupled in cost since 1980
  • New species found in the carapace of late cretaceous marine turtle
  • Belize expands marine reserve to meet Convention on Biodiversity target and moves to ban gill nets
  • The best rhino crime detective in South Africa, Leroy Bruwer, assassinated
  • There is a blooming White Sage Black Market
  • Historic solar deal powers Duke University toward carbon neutrality
  • Six species of Philippine crickets, held nameless in a Hawaii museum
  • Ben and Jerry’s launch new non-dairy ice cream to fight climate change
  • We can use CITES wildlife trade agreement to help prevent pandemics
  • Federal government considers lifting ban on importing parrots 25 years after it was introduced
  • Sir Ken Robinson dies
  • Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection
  • Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government
  • Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail
  • Wolverines return to Mount Rainier National Park after more than 100 years
  • Two baby gorillas born in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
  • Army finds Pebble Mine project cannot be permitted as proposed
  • Paco Valverde, an ocean hero dedicated to vaquita conservation succumbs to COVID
  • Nalin Indika Munasinghe joins IUCN Sri Lanka Country Office as its new programme coordinator
  • 13 important marine mammal areas approved in the Southern Ocean, one of the world’s richest marine mammal areas
  • Invasive lanternflies now spotted in New Jersey
  • New species of Forest Frog discovered Philippines
  • PEC Gilbert’s Corner Work wins state environmental award
  • New species of cretaceous brittle star names in honour of Nightwish vocalist
  • Children raised in greener areas have higher IQ
  • Southern pig-tailed macaques listed as endangered but still persecuted
  • Burnley man who illegally traded in critically endangered species is jailed
  • Several endangered may be at risk of COVID
  • CA teams up with Federal Government to thin forests
  • White House allows oil and gas drilling in 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  • For South America’s wilderness areas, COVID brings risk and respite
  • Indonesia bill weakening environmental safeguards to pass in October
  • After 250 years, Esden Tribe, regains a piece of its ancestral homeland
  • Ohio Wildlife Council receives aquaculture proposals
  • Cardinham Woods records eight new species of spider in Cornwall for the first time
  • California condor chick hatches at LA Zoo, a boost to endangered species
  • A bottle of seawater can hold the answer to whether there are sharks nearby
  • Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand
  • Mauritius plan to dump part of wrecked ship sparks controversy
  • Forest fires set by poachers threaten a refuge of the Sumatran rhino
  • Florida to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes against local residents’ wishes
  • Flint water crisis – Michigan ‘agrees to pay $600m’
  • New Mexico governor says ‘Time is running out to save our planet’
  • Monster 200-metre long ghost net removed from sea in Plymouth
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Conservation News ~ 21 August 2020

8/21/2020

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  • 1.6 million of gallons of produced water spilled so far in 2020
  • Gov McMaster calls for luxury ‘ecoresort’ plan for SC barrier island to be rejected
  • Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse
  • Agrochemicals and industrial waste threaten Argentina’s Gran Chaco
  • Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans
  • Washington Wildlife Officials gun down last survivors of Wedge Wolf Pack
  • More eggs harvested from last 2 Northern White Rhinos
  • Fears for endangered macaw as fire devastates Brazilian wetland
  • Thirty new deep-water species including bamboo corals, sponges discovered in the Galapagos
  • The Army Corps failed to enact endangered species protections for Willamette River salmon
  • California to hold hearing on listing Pacific Leatherbacks under state Endangered Species
  • Renewable energy corporations fight endangered species status for Joshua Trees
  • An elephant baby boom in one Kenyan National Park
  • In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands
  • Municipal Protected Area expanded in Ecuador’s most threatened ecosystem
  • US agrees to decide Pangolin protections
  • Elephant shrew lost to science for 52 years is rediscovered in Africa
  • Mauritius arrests captain of Japanese oil spill ship
  • 5 automakers lock in a deal on greenhouse gas pollution
  • Greenpeace activists occupy Danish North Sea oil platform
  • Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property assured
  • White House withdraws nomination of controversial attorney for top environment post
  • Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bees spotted a Illiniwek Forest Preserve
  • Quilt exhibit highlights endangered species
  • Walls of death – surge in illegal drift net threatens endangered species
  • American Lithium reports baseline biological survey confirms no endangered species
  • Endangered Species Act protections sought for a Northwest freshwater mussel
  • California delays endangered species status for Joshua Tree
  • Madagascar minister calls protected areas a ‘failure,’ seeks people-centric approach
  • White House green lights oil and gas development in ANWR
  • Indonesia pushes rice estate project despite environment red flags
  • Washington wildlife officials gun down last survivors of Wedge Wolf Pack to protect cows
  • Sea turtle lays eggs on Los Boliches beach in Spain’s Malaga in first ever recording of turtle nesting in area
  • San Francisco votes to slash meat, dairy, and eggs served in hospitals and jails
  • Former CIRES director Konrad Steffen – man who sounded alarm on Greenland ice- dies in Greenland accident
  • US allows killing of hundreds of sea lions to save struggling salmon
  • Pools of water atop sea ice in the Arctic may lead it to melt away sooner than thought
  • 250 people protest captive animals in France
  • Bugs resort to several colours to protect themselves from predators
  • Lake Erie’s toxic green slime is getting worse with climate change
  • Another whale trapped in shark nets off Queensland
  • Sea otters in California estuaries surprise scientists with Eelgrass increase
  • 19 black families purchased 96.7 acres of land in the midst of protests and a pandemic
  • California’s only known wolf pack adds 8 pups
  • As wild areas become farmland, species that carry diseases flourish
  • Marine food webs could be radically altered by heating of oceans
  • China has freed 99 turtles that were rescued from smugglers
  • This Pacific Island nation plans to raise itself above the ocean to survive sea level rise
  • New catalysts efficiently turns carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals
  • Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return
  • Oil spill in Mauritius may thwart thirty years of conservation efforts
  • Black bear tranquilized, killed after locals admitted to luring animal for photos
  • Conservationists find new owl species in Trinidad
  • At least 19 new species discovered at Hainan’s tropical park
  • Green economy recovery: leading their emancipation
  • Environmental groups say water use at border wall threatening endangered species in Arizona
  • State Supreme Court rejects South Dakota bid to recover millions from oil giant BP
  • Endangered sea turtles shells disguised as blue plastic seized at MIA en route to Asia
  • Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps
  • Colombia will ban all cosmetic animal testing by 2024
  • Scorching temperatures in Death Valley will shatter records in West, Southwest
  • Bald Eagle attacks government drone and sends it to bottom of Lake Michigan
  • Sea life in Mauritius dying as massive oil spill threatens endangered species
  • Chief Hoskins establishes sovereignty commission in wake of McGirt decision
  • Forest Service authorizes one of largest timber sales in Wyoming history
  • Tourism collapse puts wildlife conservation in peril
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Conservation News ~ 14 August 2020

8/14/2020

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  • Tour companies kicked out of the Mara
  • Large blue butterfly flutters in Cotswolds for first time in 150 years
  • Green financiers still support Amazon beef industry
  • Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs
  • Satellite record gives unprecedented view of Antarctic ice shelf melt pattern over 25 years
  • Ancient genomes suggest woolly rhinos went extinct due to climate change, not overhunting
  • Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean
  • Cincinnati lawyer bought a $3k tiger skin rug in violation of the Endangered Species Act
  • Cameroon cncels logging plan that threatens rare apes
  • Mutations may have saved brown howler monkeys from yellow fever virus
  • Chain catshark flows using a process previously unknown to science
  • UK tofu sales skyrocket by 82 percent during COVID lockdown
  • Almost all oil removed from wrecked Mauritius ship’Inmate fire crew saves largest oak in North America
  • Big investors to trial net zero tools to decarbonize their protfolios
  • Novel 3d printed reef tiles to repopulate coral communities
  • 8 Dead after attack in a wildlife reserve in Niger
  • Protestors block logging road near Port Renfrew
  • US Reps call on Interior Secretary to cancel Utah oil and gas lease sale
  • New Hydrogen-powered hyper car has a 1k mile range
  • Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation
  • Florida Grasshopper Sparrows sing a hopeful song for the first time in decades
  • New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight
  • Mongabay team wins top environmental journalism prizes
  • Europe’s earliest bone tools found in Britain
  • Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching
  • Cherokee Nation launches 68th Cherokee National Holiday website
  • Sharks contaminated with plastics are cause for concern
  • New York City was on the verge of tackling its trash problem, then COVID hit
  • 6 former EPA Chiefs say ‘derailed’ agency needs reset after election
  • Border Wall is the Biggest Threat to Southwest Wildlife, government emails reveal
  • Beaver families win legal ‘right to remain’
  • Federal Judge rules administration’s bird-killing policy is illegal
  • Alarm as pesticides spur rapid decline of US bird species
  • New species of ancient giant alligator identified
  • New shrimp species discovered in Panama’s Coiba National Park
  • Endangered Species discovered by scientists in Kalamazoo creek
  • Scientists try to create first rhino test tube baby to save near-extinct species
  • Wartime code breaker helps crack bird’s behaviour
  • Great White Shark soars 12ft into the air in highest recorded breach
  • Ireland is creating largest grove of redwoods outside of California
  • Canada pandas running on empty as bamboo dries up
  • Plant-based food market to reach $74.2bn by 2027
  • BMW to launch luxury cars with vegan leather interior
  • Nearly 60 different types of fish found in Chicago waterways
  • Six French aid workers and local guides shot dead in Niger Giraffe park
  • Amazon Deforestation Falls where land is under indigenous control
  • Scientists have invented a way to save a little Australian bird from a blood-sucking maggot
  • Ca AB 3030 to protect at least 30% of California’s land and water by 2030
  • Ecuador races for emergency infrastructure as river’s collapse threatens dam
  • Oregon man arrested for intentionally running down 6 pronghorn antelope with pickup truck
  • China’s $420bn TCM industry driving the extinction crisis
  • Washington Governor urged to order new rules to reduce wolf-killing
  • Singapore crushes ivory from around 300 elephants to deter illegal trade
  • Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on forest islands 10k years ago
  • Hilton Head beadchgoers seen picking up sea turtles, disturbing nests
  • Court upholds historical interpretation of Nation’s Bird Conservation Law
  • As wild areas become farmland, species that carry diseases flourish
  • House panel asks watchdog to investigate Army Corps of Engineers’ review of Alaskan mine project
  • Forest growth in drier climates will be impacted by reduced snowpack
  • SkyTruth visualization and app of drilling near Chaco Canyon available to activists and others
  • Biodiversity is the next frontier in sustainable fashion
  • Portugal ends coal burning two years ahead of schedule
  • After 125 years, 140 species of butterflies discovered in Mumbai’s Matheran Hill station
  • Agriculture replaces fossil fuels as largest human source of sulfur in the environment
  • Cincinnati Zoo’s critically endangered Black Rhino is pregnant
  • Large population of endangered mussel species found in Portage Creek
  • Genomic study reveals New Zealand’s Tuatara is like no other animal on the planet
  • Biodiversity loss is making us all sick
  • Captive Beluga Whales released into Iceland sanctuary
  • Eelgrass loss may be causing widespread erosion in Morro Bay
  • EPA to lift Obama-era controls on Methane, a potent Greenhouse Gas
  • Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances
  • Mauritius grapples with worst environmental crisis in a generation
  • Indonesian case highlights potential for long-term corruption
  • The Great Insect Dying – a global look at deepening crisis
  • Offshore wind power so cheap it could return money to consumers
  • Climate change impacts roads, may make traffic worse
  • After a shark attack in Maine, calls for Gray Seal culling grow
  • New study finds that many dams are located in protected areas, many more planned
  • Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years
  • After 5yr legal battle, USFWS reverses course, will consider Sonoran Desert Tortoise for endangered species status
  • World Bank policy advice boosts oil and gas, undermining climate goals
  • Seabird poo is worth more than $1bn annually
  • Endangered Seahorse makes a comeback due to lockdown
  • Second woman injured by whale in Western Australia
  • Disrupted habitats have more zoonotic disease hosts
  • Central Europe to face extreme droughts without climate action
  • Herbicide harming marsupial health and development
  • To save Appalachia’s endangered mussels, scientists hatched a bold plan
  • Interactive persistent effects of past land-cover and its trajectory on tropical freshwater biodiversity
  • Researchers discover new electrocatalyst for turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
  • Washington dam removal means 37 more miles of salmon habitat restores
  • Joy at Dublin Zoo as endangered species of ape gives birth to healthy baby
  • BLM releases final Montana management plans that conserve key backcountry lands
  • South Dakota unveils 50 ft statue honoring Sioux women
  • Bali sea turtles set free after poacher arrests
  • Building a circular battery economy in Norway
  • Chernobyl shines again as a solar farm
  • Fires in Argentina’s Parana Delta are burning out of control
  • NOAA fisheries cancels remaining Hawaiian Islands surveys for 2020
  • Scientists develop a super-strong wood that completely reflects the Sun’s heat
  • Poisoning not ruled out in death of hundreds of Botswana elephants
  • Ancient mountain formation and monsoon helps create a modern biodiversity hotspot
  • Lynx takes epic 2k mile trek – but why is a mystery
  • SeaWorld’s revenue has dropped 95% from 2019
  • Blue Whales bounce back after near extinction
  • Forest crimes persist in Peru following indigenous leader’s murder
  • Lion cub whose legs were broken to pose for tourists off to Africa for new life
  • Amazon rainforest the size of Sao Paulo cleared in July in Brazil
  • Wild bees add about $1.5 billion to yields for just six U.S. crops
  • France records driest July in six decades
  • Vermont makes it illegal to throw compost in the trash
  • Indy500 has cancelled this year’s balloon release
  • NASA to remove offensive names from planets and other heavenly bodies
  • Rare bearded vulture chick born in Picos de Europa flies the nest
  • Research reveals exactly why Peregrin Falcons are so deadly
  • Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farms’
  • Rhino poaching in Namibia down 63% on tougher policing, penalties
  • Five new species found in Melghat
  • Endangered Kangaroo rats now wearing backpacks in wash near Redlands, Highland
  • Black Teatfish Sea Cucumbers move toward endangered species protection
  • Endangered Brazilian Monkeys get a bridge to themselves
  • Canada’s last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses
  • Bernie Sanders backs bill to ban factory farming by 2040
  • Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed
  • Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk
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Conservation News ~ 7 August 2020

8/7/2020

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  • Business lobbyists stymy climate much-needed action in Japan
  • Federal Court rules Federal government cannot allow fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Heatwaves will be as deadly as diseases globally – should we name them to raise awareness
  • Industry releases first standard to improve safety of mine waste storage
  • Indonesian fishers who fought off tin miners prepare to battle all over again
  • New acid mine drainage treatment turns waste into valuable critical minerals
  • Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts
  • Rare wildflower could jeopardize lithium mine
  • Draft guidelines for planning and monitoring corporate biodiversity performance issued for public comment
  • IUCN Standard to boost impact of nature-based solutions to global challenges
  • Almost a third of lemurs and North Atlantic Right Whale now Critically Endangered
  • Pioneering efforts come to fruition as Global Guidelines for connectivity conservation released
  • India adopts CATS standards across all 50 tiger reserves
  • New species of invasive grass found by botanists in Wisconsin
  • The unusual new species of stingray found in a jar
  • Lawsuit launched to protect Minnesota’s Endangered Rusty Patched Bumblebee
  • Air Force environmental programs help endangered species thrive
  • Lost grass Sphenopholis interrupta ssp. californica discovered by Jessie Vinje and Margie Mulligan in SD County
  • Nearly three billion animals killed or displaced by Australia’s fires
  • China’s focus on panda conservation has come at the cost of other species
  • Migratory river fish populaitons plunge 76% in past 50 years
  • Billions for national parks as historic bill becomes law
  • Significant jump in Emperor penguin numbers
  • Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price
  • More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas
  • Brazil end runs environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts
  • New Guinea has the most plant species of any land
  • Vietnam approves $9 billion development within mangrove reserve
  • New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’
  • Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows
  • In California, forest fires spark a babel of birdsong
  • In the forests of New Zealand, indigenous Maori and Western scientists work through past injustices to save a threatened species together
  • New species of Truffle discovered – Tuber luomae
  • Even as air pollution drops, communities of color in the US still breathe dirtier air
  • BP commits to slashing oil and gas operations, a necessary step for climate action
  • Shifting toward a plant-based food system would create 19 million jobs in Latin America by 2030
  • Trophy hunting, African animal product importation ban bill to be heard in assembly committee
  • Panda conservation efforts failed to protect other mammals
  • Amid Pine Mountain’s ancient trees, a forest ‘thinning’ project triggers protests
  • Weak enforcement sees surging trade in Philippine pangolin
  • Quarter of native UK mammals at imminent risk of extinction
  • Wildlands Network announces appointment of new Executive Director, Katie Davis
  • Fish and Wildlife agrees to reconsider Sonoran Desert Tortoise for ESA Protection
  • New species of fungus sticking out of beetles
  • New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
  • Federal regulators agree to reconsider Tucson tortoise for endangred species list
  • A pair of Canadian Ice Caps has disappeared completely
  • Researchers collaborate on a strategy for sustainable aquaculture, the world’s fastest growing food sector
  • Saved from poisoning, these rare African vulture take wing again
  • Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate
  • Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder
  • Business risk and COVID are pushing Asian financiers away from coal
  • Scientists discover secret behind Earth’s biodiversity hotspot
  • Europe aims to be first climate-neutral continent
  • New Captain Hook Dinosaur with clawed hands discovered
  • Song for Cecil calls for ban on import of hunt trophies in memory of tragic lion
  • ‘Green’ colonialism is ruining indigenous lives in Norway
  • Snake River dams will not be removed to save salmon
  • Tigers and their habitats under threat from the boost to the mining sector
  • Bright lights likely led to newly-hatched sea turtle deaths in South Carolina
  • Pendley’s own words disqualify him from leading the BLM
  • Washington farmworkers ask state supreme court for overtime pay
  • Apple fire in Riverside County grows to 20,000 acres, winds expected to pick up this afternoon
  • Kaavan, a Sri Lankan elephant living in captivity in a Pakistani zoo to be set free
  • Doctors to order a walk in the park under $4m ‘green prescriptions’ pilot
  • Arizona’s beloved San Pedro River is about to meet the rising wall on the US-Mexico border
  • How bats have outsmarted viruses-including coronaviruses – for 65 million years
  • Most polar bears to disappear by 2100
  • Landmark ruling Ugandan poacher jailed for killing Rafiki the gorilla
  • Ornithologists discover more rare hornbills than thought on Philippine island
  • Fossils show yet another dolphin species had lived in Gunma
  • Beetles dominate as scientists discover new animal species
  • 900 companies now support a Federal Ban on cosmetic animal testing
  • South African rhino poaching halves in six months thanks to COVID
  • Small crustacean can fragment microplastics in four days
  • European commission orders France to outlaw barbaric glue traps for birds
  • House clears #1.3T spending bill with $210b in emergency cash
  • Researchers discover 26 new species of micromulloscs, the size of a grain of sand, off Kimberley
  • Utica Zoo welcomes new species
  • Orange County activists stand against power plant expansion
  • Interior floats first definition of Endangered Species Habitat
  • Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
  • A decade after UN declared water a human right, it’s time for Canada to make it law
  • Protection of nesting beaches to prevent extinction of green turtles on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
  • Record 876 flamingo chicks born during 2020 breeding season at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve
  • ICUN mourns the death of John Foster CBE
  • Chattanooga Zoo announces New African Species
  • In Colombia, scientists are finding new species in uncharted territory
  • Foregoing $3billion bond a huge missed opportunity for New York’s environment and economy
  • Indonesia repatriates 91 smuggled animals from Philippines
  • Oregon Zoo releases endangered pond turtles back into the wild
  • Federal government mandating dam owner address endangered mussels
  • Smaller habitats worse than expected for biodiversity
  • Scales of critically endangered pangolin seized in Sumatra
  • Morgan Freeman Headlines This Gorgeous Campaign About a Whole New Ocean Species
  • Wildlife agencies increase reward for information in grizzly killing
  • Super-pollutant emitted by 11 Chinese chemical plants could equal a climate catastrophe
  • Returning to farming’s roots in the battle against the “billion-dollar beetle”
  • Tigers have made a remarkable comeback in five countries
  • Plague to protein – Israel firm seeks to put locust on the menu
  • Suit seeks to restore protections for wildlife in Flathead National Forest
  • Conservationists to Federal Agencies – Restore Protections for Imperiled Wildlife in the Flathead National Forest
  • Physicists – 90% chance of human society collapsing within decades
  • DNA from an ancient, unidentified ancestor was passed down to human living today
  • Committee advances eleven Indian Bills during business meeting
  • Continuing conservation in a planet on lockdown
  • New York Attorney General moves to dissolve the NRA after Fraud investigation
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New Species and People ~ July 2020

8/2/2020

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New species
  • Student researchers discover new species of marine invertebrate
  • Researchers discover a new species of ribbon worm from Chennai’s Kovalam beach
  • Researchers find new species of seaweed killing large patches of coral
  • Sponge with a secret recipe – a cancer-fighting chemical
  • New species of fan-throated lizard discovered in northern Karnataka
  • An entire new genus of Trapdoor Spiders have been discovered in Australia
  • Researchers find rare snake-like venom glands in new amphibian species Caecilian
  • New species of dogfish discovered in Japan
  • New species of Fish Lizard found in museum collection
  • Over 40 new species described in 2020 by a research group
  • An intrusive killer scorpion points the way to six new species in Sri Lanka
  • New species of bee named after Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield
  • New species of ‘Sea Cockroach’ can grow 20 inches in length
  • New endemic plant species discovered in northern Turkey’s Bartin Province
  • New mat-forming species of algae smothers coral on tropical atoll
  • A new species of Darkling Beetle larvae that eats plastic discovered
  • New species of rare ants ‘Protanilla’ discovered in Goa
  • Smooth Handfish, One of the weirdest creatures on earth is now extinct
  • We discovered a new species of stingray, but war means it may now remain hidden forever
  • Scientists discover three new species of chameleons
  • Two new species of parasite discovered in crabs
  • Creatures from the deep: new species from Chilean Patagonia
  • New species of crab has been names after Nightwish
  • New species of Brown Snake discovered on island
  • Scientists identify new species of sea sponge off the coast of British Colombia, Canada
  • New species of plant-eating dinosaur identified in Switzerland
  • Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites
  • Scientists successfully revive 100m-year-old microbes from the sea
  • Bishop museum officially names new living native Hawaiian snail species
  • New wildflower species found in El Nido
  • Presumed extinct, a wildflower reappears on Mount Diablo
 
People
  • For 3 decades, the Big Island’s Turtle Man has been helping save endangered honu
  • Brazil’s past finance ministers defend environment against Bolsonaro
  • Navajo Women are bringing sustainable solar power to the Navajo Nation
  • Leonard DiCaprio shows support for Sumatran orangutan conservation program
  • Senator Cory Booker on climate justice – it’s an assault on black bodies
  • Greta Thunberg gives $1m award money to climate groups
  • China’s first climate striker warned: give it up or you can’t go back to school
  • Prince William says ‘urgent steps’ needed to eradicate illegal wildlife trade in fight against future pandemics
  • Peter Kareiva is named CEO and President of the Aquarium of the Pacific
  • Huey Johnson, Marin County environmental leader, dies at 87
  • Indigenous Peoples’ rights and climate change advocate Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim joins Conservation International Board of Directors
  • IUCN appoints new Director General – Dr. Bruno Oberle
  • NAU professor named Ecological Restoration Insitute’s new executive director
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