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Conservation News ~ November 23 2018

11/23/2018

Tests reveal more weed killer than some vitamins in kids’ cereals: https://www.ewg.org/release/tests-reveal-more-weed-killer-some-vitamins-kids-cereals
House of Representatives voted on Gray Wolf delisting: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/15/house-of-representatives-to-vote-on-gray-wolf-deli/
Large hydropower dams not sustainable: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46098118
NY Co-Op solar project will be owned by the community members it benefits: https://www.fastcompany.com/90264043/this-co-op-solar-project-will-be-owned-by-the-community-members-it-benefits
Orangutans are the only great apes – besides humans – to talk about the past: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/orangutans-are-only-great-apes-besides-humans-talk-about-past
Oregon State study: Carnivores’ return helps Yellowstone park streams: https://www.apnews.com/9d1e2c3589fc4287a1ad12afbf00ff1c
EU moves to protect big beasts: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46153727
Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/sad-surprise-amazon-fish-contaminated-by-plastic-particles
Conservation areas help birdlife adapt to climate change: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181112131615.htm
Google searches reveal public interest in conservation is rising: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/google-searches-reveal-public-interest-in-conservation-is-rising/
Brazil could lose Nepal-size area of rainforest due to policy revision: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/brazil-could-lose-nepal-size-area-of-rainforest-due-to-policy-revision/
RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/rspo-adopts-total-ban-on-deforestation-under-sweeping-new-standards/
Peru shares its fisheries surveillance data with the world: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/peru-shares-its-fisheries-surveillance-data-with-the-world/
Activists urge end to South Korean funding of Indonesian coal plants: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/activists-urge-end-to-south-korean-funding-of-indonesia-coal-plants/
Billion-dollar US energy firm opposes US White House plan to roll back mercury rules: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/15/energy-company-takes-stance-against-trump-effort-to-rollback-mercury-rule
Squid and Gill nets cleared from artificial reef: https://www.oceandefenders.org/news-and-media/squid-and-gill-nets-cleared-from-artificial-reef.html?fbclid=IwAR3B2BQslnlV5SnIVInSEYOzW1aL_PlrB2pQ4HdwwERRfGcONjl9qyyIA-k
US starts process to open Arctic to offshore drilling, despite federal lawsuit: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15112018/arctic-offshore-drilling-alaska-beaufort-sea-trump-order-federal-lawsuit-obama-oil-spill-concerns
A new DNA study reveals a previously unidentified North American ‘polar wolf’: https://www.arctictoday.com/new-dna-study-reveals-previously-unidentified-north-american-polar-wolf/
Interior Department sued for secrecy about endangered species: https://www.missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2018/11/interior-endangered-species/
California newts shut down road in Berkeley’s Tilden Regional Park: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/08/california-newts-shut-down-road-in-berkeleys-tilden-regional-park/
Arizona man sentenced in killing of Mexican Gray Wolf: https://kvoa.com/news/2018/11/16/arizona-man-sentenced-in-killing-of-mexican-gray-wolf/
Vessel spills 250,000 litres of crude oil off Newfoundland: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/newfoundland-tanks-oil-spill-husky-1.4909859
Two big new all-electric ferries are coming to Canada: https://electrek.co/2018/11/07/all-electric-ferries-canada/
Scientists create sustainable vegan protein from water, electricity, and CO2: https://www.livekindly.co/finnish-solar-foods-sustainable-vegan-protein-water-electricity-co2/
Plant-based protein company Beyond Meat files for IPO: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/17/business/beyond-meat-ipo/index.html
PT Barnum’s hometown bans wild animals in circuses: https://www.care2.com/causes/the-greatest-showman-home-city-bans-wild-animals-in-circuses.html
It’s now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/its-now-cheaper-to-build-a-new-wind-farm-than-to-keep-a-coal-plant-running/
Northern California now has the worst air quality in the world, thanks to wildfire smoke: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/16/18098461/aqi-san-francisco-worst-air-quality-world-epa
Manatees in peril as toxic red tide tests Florida’s resources for rescued animals: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/19/severity-of-toxic-red-tide-tests-floridas-resources-for-rescued-manatees
Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-rare-diverse-giant-viruses-unexpectedly.html
Funding boost for Stockholm Resilience Centre: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2018-11-20-funding-boost-for-centre-researchers.html
Dead whale had 1,000 pieces of plastic in stomach: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/20/indonesia-dead-whale-had-1000-pieces-of-plastic-in-stomach
Climate change altering direction of water currents: http://www.wshu.org/post/yale-study-climate-change-altering-direction-water-currents
Colorado adopts California’s stricter emissions standards: https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-adopts-californias-stricter-emissions-standards-bucking-trump-administration
Surge in marine refuges brings world close to protected areas goal: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/19/marine-reserves-size-protected-wildlife-five-times-bigger-usa
Oregon aquarium plans a $4.75 million rehabilitation facility for sick or stranded sea animals: http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/oregon-aquarium-plans-475-million-rehabilitation-facility-sick-or-stranded-sea-animals
Closing nuclear plants risk rise in greenhouse gas emissions: https://grist.org/article/closing-nuclear-plants-risks-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-report-warns/
Mosquito repellant kills salamander larvae: http://wildlife.org/mosquito-repellent-kills-salamander-larvae/
Dead fish to power cruise ships: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/19/dead-fish-to-power-cruise-ships-norwegian-biogas
Grizzly, black, and polar bears found together for the first time: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/19/dead-fish-to-power-cruise-ships-norwegian-biogas
VA Secretary says that experiments on dogs will continue: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/experiments-on-dogs-will-continue--va-secretary-says-65075
California wildfire smoke spreads to New York: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/21/california-fires-smoke-new-york-east-coast-arrival
Coast Guard orders cleanup of massive 14-year oil spill in Gulf of Mexico: https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/20/coast-guard-orders-cleanup-massive-year-oil-spill-gulf-mexico/
Oregon, Washington state parks will be free for Black Friday: https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/11/f3f54d540b3034/oregon-washington-state-parks.html
Rock icon Roger Waters denounces Chevron in Ecuador: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/roger-waters-denounces-chevron-in-ecuador/
US could cut emissions more than one-fifth through ‘natural climate solutions’ like reforestation: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/us-could-cut-emissions-more-than-one-fifth-through-natural-climate-solutions-like-reforestation/
Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/progress-on-jaguar-conservation-in-suriname/
Vegan actor James Cromwell takes dead piglet inside Utah Capitol building in protest: https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/vegan-james-cromwell-dead-piglet-utah-capitol-building-protest
Population of rare Stone’s sheep smaller than previously thought: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181115115334.htm
New whale sounds recorded in Niwa-led Cook Strait study: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/108604618/new-whale-sounds-recorded-in-niwaled-cook-strait-study
Amazon indigenous groups porpose Mexico-sized ‘corridor of life’: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/21/amazon-indigenous-groups-propose-mexico-sized-corridor-of-life
Vanuatu says it may sure fossil fuel companies and other countries over climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/vanuatu-says-it-may-sue-fossil-fuel-companies-and-other-countries-over-climate-change
Hungary wants end to coal power by 2030: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/11/20/hungary-wants-end-coal-power-2030/
Interior Secretary blames ‘radical environmentalists’ for wildfires: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/interior-secretary-zinke-blames-radical-environmentalists-contributing-wildfires-n938671
Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain: https://www.popsci.com/termites-brazil-landfill-mounds
Canada’s Bill S-203, protecting cetaceans, has passed: https://www.animalalliance.ca/bill-s-203-ending-cetaceans-captivity/
World’s saddest polar bear dies after spending 21 years in concrete pit: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/polar-bear-tongki-south-korea-dies
Oregon receives authorization to remove California Sea Lions preying on imperiled fish: https://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/stories/2018/14_11142018_predatory_willamette.html
Scientists find remains of huge ancient herbivore: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-scientists-huge-ancient-herbivore.html
Whales are perpetually stressed: https://www.google.com/search?q=Whales+are+perpetually+stressed%3A&oq=Whales+are+perpetually+stressed%3A&aqs=chrome..69i57.294j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Florida already reached last year’s record manatee deaths by boats: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-already-reached-last-years-record-manatee-deaths-by-boats
2 endangered black rhinos found dead in Mara: https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/scienceandhealth/3-endangered-black-rhinos-found-dead-in-Mara/3073694-4862440-p0cgm1z/index.html
Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in Africa: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/uou-han112018.php
South Korea closes largest dog meat slaughterhouse: http://www.hsi.org/news/press_releases/2018/11/sk-slaughterhouse-shutdown-112218.html
Russia bans its whale jails after international outcry: http://expressdigest.com/russia-bans-its-whale-jails-after-international-outcry/

Conservation News ~ November 16 2018

11/16/2018

Canadian old growth continues to be threatened due to weak government management: https://hashilthsa.com/news/2018-11-06/old-growth-continues-be-threatened-due-weak-government-management-says-ntc
Understanding how elephants think is key to protecting them: https://e360.yale.edu/features/understanding-how-elephants-think-is-key-to-protecting-them
Washington just decided to kill three rare wolf families: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/washington-state-to-kill-three-wolf-families
Oregon may be over-hunting cougars: https://www.opb.org/news/article/cougar-overhunting-conflict-oregon/
New system opens the door to transforming CO2 into industrial fuels: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/new-system-opens-the-door-to-transforming-co2-into-industrial-fuels/
Federal Judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Scientists argue that BC hasn’t recognized endangered status of Spotted Owls: https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489595
Researchers capture video of humpback whales ‘trap feeding’: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/researchers-capture-video-of-humpback-whales-trap-feeding
Rare dolphin found dead in river conservation area in Myanmar: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2018-11/08/c_137591543.htm
Marine Protected Areas overlook a large fraction of biodiversity hotspots: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-marine-areas-overlook-large-fraction.html
Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/peru-cracks-down-after-environmental-defenders-murders/
Poaching is forcing elephants to evolve away from having tusks: https://futurism.com/elephant-tusks-poaching-evolution
Scientists discover a rare bird that’s a hybrid of three different species: https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/11/09/rare-three-species-hybrid-bird-discovered/
England’s frog populations could jump thanks to new ‘frog ladders’: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/frog-ladders-britain_us_5be48941e4b0e84388957123
End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/end-of-funding-dims-hopes-for-a-sumatran-forest-targeted-by-palm-oil-growers/
Rare white lion is set to be auctioned off to trophy hunters, instead of going to a sanctuary: https://nypost.com/2018/11/16/sanctuary-fears-rare-white-lion-will-be-auctioned-off-to-trophy-hunters/
Creation of new Congo Ogooue-Lekati National Park: https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/11706/Creation-of-Ogooue-Leketi-National-Park.aspx
Scientists develop liquid fuel that can store the sun’s energy for up to 18 years: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-develop-liquid-that-sucks-up-sun-s-energy
Anger over ‘back door’ St Lucia dune mining plan: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-11-08-anger-over-back-door-st-lucia-dune-mining-plan/
Rescued panther meets end 9 months after release: https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20181110/rescued-panther-meets-end-9-months-after-release
Idaho Fish and Game director Moore announces he will retire: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/07/idaho-fish-and-game-director-moore-announces-he-wi/
Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier drops fur, deeming industry ‘absolutely deplorable’: https://www.livekindly.co/luxury-fashion-designer-jean-paul-gaultier-drops-fur/
Alaska fishermen sentenced for killing endangered sea lions: https://www.apnews.com/3d283cc18f9c427f8c4a79665f34a283
Beaches at risk due to the increase in atmospheric CO2: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181109101435.htm
Over 600,000 people petition to air banned palm oil orangutan tv ad: https://www.livekindly.co/iceland-palm-oil-orangutan-petition/
Judge orders USFWS to strengthen protections for threatened lynx: http://wildlife.org/judge-orders-usfws-to-strengthen-protections-for-threatened-lynx/
China postpones lifting ban on trade of tiger and rhino parts: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-wildlife/china-postpones-lifting-of-ban-on-trade-of-tiger-and-rhino-parts-idUSKCN1NH0XH
Ancient prairie to be restored at Midlands SC preserve: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/ancient-native-prairie-to-be-restored-at-midlands-sc-preserve/article_a0135314-dd18-11e8-9095-f7d407420c39.html
Herpes-infected monkeys are running wild in Florida: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/florida-rhesus-monkeys-herpes-running-wild-invasive-species/
Human-shaped species of mushroom discovered in UK: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mushroom-species-looks-humans/
Climate protestors blockade energy department in UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46172661
The House Science Committee is getting a leader who believes climate change is real: https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/midterms-house-science-committee
Declining Caribou illustrate the challenges of conservation: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/nov/11/declining-caribou-illustrate-the-challenges-of-con/
Russian Ministry of Environment refuses to export 25 capture beluga whales: https://chelorg.com/2018/11/13/the-ministry-of-environment-refused-to-export-25-belugas-from-primorsky-krai/
Scientists create energy-producing “bionic mushroom”: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/scientists-create-energy-producing-bionic-mushroom
First Monarch butterflies reach sanctuaries in Michoacan, Mexico: https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/first-monarch-butterflies-reach-sanctuaries/
Landmark children’s climate lawsuit hits new roadblock: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/landmark-childrens-climate-lawsuit-hits-new-roadblock/
Environmental activist gives up his life after 111 day fast for a clean Ganga River: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/blogpost/environmental-activist-gives-his-life-clean-ganga-river
Leonardo DiCaprio launches vegan clothing line to save primates: https://vegnews.com/2018/11/leonardo-dicaprio-launches-vegan-clothing-line-to-save-primates
World’s largest humpback whale population booming thanks to the Kimberley: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-13/worlds-largest-humpback-whale-population-booming/10470862
VW is planning a US$21,000 subcompact electric to challenge Tesla: https://driving.ca/volkswagen/auto-news/news/vw-is-planning-a-us21000-subcompact-electric-to-challenge-tesla
Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions: https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/11/13/rare-fossil-bird-deepens-mystery-of-avian-extinctions/
Chocolate giant Cadbury ‘still pushing orangutans toward extinction’: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/orangutans-palm-oil-habitat-rainforest-cadbury-mondelez-oreos-indonesia-greenpeace-a8630801.html
Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/honduras-aims-to-save-vital-wildlife-corridor-from-deforestation/
US White House sides with tribes in Badger-Two Med drilling dispute: https://www.apnews.com/4e559f308479487289d36fdadecb4aa3
Feted Zimbabwe women rangers denied visas: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46194785
For the first time since 2010, people who accept climate change control the House Science Committee: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xp9bx/for-the-first-time-since-2010-people-who-accept-climate-change-control-the-house-science-committee
Papua New Guinea to create 7,500 km of new marine protected areas in Bismarck Sea: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/png-to-create-7500-square-kilometers-of-new-marine-protected-areas-in-bismarck-sea/
Chile: Mining waste continues to be expelled into the sea: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/chile-mining-waste-continues-to-be-expelled-into-the-sea/
Iceland to let loose animatronic orangutan after Christmas ad ban: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/14/iceland-let-loose-animatronic-orangutan-after-christmas-advert-ban-palm-oil
Endangered rhino leaving zoo for wild: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-46201636/endangered-black-rhino-swapping-north-yorkshire-for-africa
Hawksbill turtle poaching to be fought with DNA technology: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/13/hawksbill-turtle-poaching-to-be-fought-with-dna-technology
Arkansas steps up to save endangered Red Wolves: https://blog.nwf.org/2018/11/a-state-steps-up-to-save-endangered-red-wolves/
Portugal bans all wild animal circuses: https://vegnews.com/2018/11/portugal-bans-wild-animal-circuses
Paleontologists discovered six new species in the East African Rift: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-paleontologists-species-east-african-rift.html
Bristol plans to become carbon neutral by 2030: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/14/bristol-plans-to-become-carbon-neutral-by-2030
Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under-greenland-s-ice-points-climate-altering-impact-time-humans
Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior: https://source.wustl.edu/2018/11/seismic-study-reveals-huge-amount-of-water-dragged-into-earths-interior/
Canadian government invests $150 million in vegan protein development: https://www.livekindly.co/canadian-government-invests-150-million-vegan-protein-industries-supercluster/
Belarus, Estonia, Norway, and the European Union sign on to a coalition of the willing to protect pollinators: https://www.ipbes.net/news/coalition-willing-pollination-grows-again
Florida monarch butterfly populations have dropped 80 percent since 2005: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/florida-monarch/
Invasive species cost millions to eradicate from Alaska waters: https://www.ktva.com/story/39455743/invasive-species-cost-millions-to-eradicate-from-alaska-waters
Canada conservation land gets $11m boost: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46200874
Fusion breakthrough as China’s “artificial sun” reaches 100 million degrees: https://newatlas.com/fusion-china-artificial-sun-east/57237/
Otter fans float plan to bring sea otters back to Oregon coast: https://www.kuow.org/stories/otter-fans-float-plan-to-bring-sea-otters-back-to-oregon-coast-4131
Washington shoots wolf; ends search for others: http://www.capitalpress.com/Washington/20181114/washington-shoots-wolf-ends-search-for-others
Gray Wolf population could lose federal protection under GOP bill: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article221647280.html
Diseases spread by ticks hit record level in US: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-number-of-tickborne-diseases-lyme-disease-reported-in-us-2017/
Palm oil supplier to PepsiCo, Mars, and Hershey resumes deforesting in Indo: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/palm-oil-supplier-to-pepsico-mars-and-hershey-resumes-deforesting-in-indonesia/
Radar helps Kenya map mangroves and other cloud-covered forests: https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2018/11/radar-helps-kenya-map-mangroves-and-other-cloud-covered-forests/
Brazil’s new foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/brazil-foreign-minister-ernesto-araujo-climate-change-marxist-plot
It is now legal to hunt and kill wildlife in Tanzania: https://www.pulse.ng/bi/politics/it-is-now-legal-again-to-hunt-and-kill-wildlife-in-tanzania-id9103727.html
Americans voted overwhelmingly to protect our wild places: https://www.outsideonline.com/2363781/what-election-meant-public-lands
Fin Whales and Mountain Gorillas are back from the brink of extinction: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/fin-whales-mountain-gorillas-extinction-endangered-red-list-whaling-poaching-iucn-a8633211.html
Raccoons drunk on crab apples cause false rabies scare in West Virginia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/14/raccoons-drunk-crab-apples-cause-false-rabies-scare-west-virginia/

Conservation News ~ November 9 2018

11/9/2018

Researchers say Orangutans are declining, despite Indo government claims: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/researchers-say-orangutans-are-declining-despite-indonesian-governments-claims/
Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/invisible-plant-enemy-interactions-drive-diversity-in-forest-fragments/
Parrotfish, critical to reef health, now protected under Mexican law: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/parrotfish-critical-to-reef-health-now-protected-under-mexican-law/
Australian students plan school strikes to protest against climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/07/australian-students-plan-school-strikes-to-protest-against-climate-inaction
Orca task force recommends a 3-5 year commercial whale watching ban: https://www.king5.com/article/tech/science/environment/orca-task-force-recommends-whale-watching-ban/281-611873318
Wind farm kills off three quarters of predatory birds: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6354843/Wind-farms-new-apex-predators-kill-three-QUARTERS-predatory-birds.html
Tribe challenges Corps findings on Dakota Access pipeline: https://apnews.com/86b0d5aa9f55420f9d8d0dd692e1b170
Man-eating tigress killed after huge hunt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46081484
Brazil’s new president openly threatens genocide of indigenous Amazonians: https://returntonow.net/2018/11/06/brazils-new-president-openly-threatens-genocide-of-indigenous-amazonians/
Australia’s remaining wilderness needs immediate protection: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-11-01/wilderness-australia-needs-protection/10447816
Russia’s Murmansk shipping signs major Arctic coal shipping contract: https://gcaptain.com/russias-murmansk-shipping-signs-major-arctic-coal-shipping-contract/
Wild sheep and goats in the Yukon to be protected from diseases by control order: https://www.yukon-news.com/news/wild-sheep-and-goats-in-the-yukon-to-be-protected-from-diseases-by-control-order/
Federal judge blasts Fish and Wildlife Service, says endangered wolves cannot be shot: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/05/federal-judge-blasts-fish-wildlife-service-says-endangered-wolves-cannot-be-shot/
Canadian University receives $1 million donation to find alternatives to animal testing: https://vegnews.com/2018/11/canadian-university-receives-1-million-donation-to-find-alternatives-to-animal-testing
Illegal fishing key threat to reefs: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30357033
Russia investigating ‘whale jail’ holding 101 captured Orcas and Belugas in Pacific Bay: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/05/russia-investigating-whale-jail-holding-101-captured-orcas-belugas/
New Zealanders working to bring Kiwis back to capital: http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/11/05/new-zealanders-working-to-bring-kiwis-back-to-capital.html
Carp control innovation removes 289,000 fish: http://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/carp-control-innovation-removes-289-000-fish
Ruth Gates, who sought to rescue coral reefs, is dead at 56: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/obituaries/ruth-gates-dead-marine-biologist-who-championed-coral.html
The Amazon is approaching a point of no return: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/the-amazon-might-be-past-the-point-of-being-saved
AI simplifies statewide study of leopards in south India: https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2018/11/ai-simplifies-statewide-study-of-leopards-in-south-india/
Sighting of Sperm Whales in Arctic a sign of changing ecosystem: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/05/sperm-whales-canadian-arctic
Male octopus hatches 10,000 teensy babies in surprise birth: https://www.livescience.com/64013-male-octopus-surprise-babies.html
Radical plan to create world’s largest marine reserve in Antarctica has been blocked: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/plan-to-create-worlds-largest-marine-reserve-in-antarctica-blocked-by-three-nations/
Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/local-fishers-oppose-2-7-billion-deal-opening-madagascar-to-chinese-fishing/
Baby whale rescued from shark net: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-45794805/whale-calf-rescued-from-shark-net-near-australian-coast
The ozone layer could be fully healed by 2060: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ozone-layer-could-be-fully-healed-by-2060-un-report-reveals-/
Indigenous Canadians in water crisis as Nestle drains 3.6m liters/day from their land: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water
Federal biologists struggle for solutions after grizzly bears again listed as threatened: https://wildearthguardians.org/news/federal-biologists-struggle-for-solutions-after-grizzly-bears-again-listed-as-threatened/
Young activists can sue government over climate change, Supreme Court says: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663887560/young-activists-can-sue-government-over-climate-change-supreme-court-says
Bison are helping rewild the last of the Midwest’s prairies: https://earther.gizmodo.com/bison-are-helping-rewild-the-last-of-the-midwests-prair-1829693894
Paleontologists have traced the origin of Kangaroo: https://koztimes.com/paleontologists-have-traced-the-origin-of-kangaroo-2/1587/
UO scientists uncover a rare Oregon dinosaur fossil: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-scientists-uncover-rare-oregon-dinosaur-fossil
Stunning drone videos of humpback and gray whales aid new UH marine mammal research: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/11/04/marine-mammal-research-program/
Black rhinoceros dies at French zoo following operation to extract its semen: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6345961/Black-rhinoceros-dies-French-zoo-following-operation-extract-semen.html
Ongoing rise in sea levels will increase threats to World Heritage sites: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/ongoing-rise-in-sea-levels-will-increase-threats-to-world-heritage-sites/
Fisherman jumps on a thrashing whale’s back to save its life: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/california-fisherman-saves-entangled-humpback-whale
South Africa’s invasive species guzzle precious water and cost US$450 million a year: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07286-0
Solar arrays could be used as resources for plant productivity: https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/solar-arrays-could-be-used-resources-plant-productivity-study-shows
Finnish climate scientists are turning food waster into vegan meat and dairy products: https://www.livekindly.co/climate-scientists-food-waste-vegan-meat-dairy/
Johannesburg Zoo ignores calls to free Lammie the lonely elephant: https://conservationaction.co.za/media-articles/johannesburg-zoo-ignores-calls-to-free-lammie-the-lonely-elephant/
Schoolboy, 11, sacked over row with Bear Grylls gets a second bite at his shark job: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1600813/schoolboy-11-sacked-over-row-with-bear-grylls-gets-a-second-bite-at-his-shark-job/
White House concerned Interior Secretary violated Federal rules: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-concerned-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-violated-federal-rules/2018/11/01/e5e4d2f4-dddc-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html
World first as Scottish tidal turbines connect to grid: https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/world-first-as-scottish-tidal-turbines-connect-to-grid-1-4822133
China’s search for sand is destroying Mozambique’s pristine beaches: https://qz.com/africa/1430196/sand-mining-in-mozambique-by-chinese-firm-destroys-lives/
Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/deforestation-continues-upward-trend-in-the-brazilian-amazon/
17 new beautiful nudibranch species discovered: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/new-species-colorful-sea-slugs-discovered
New species mark 1,000 discovered in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/10/18/new-species-discovered-2018-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-lichens-biodiversity-ecoystem/1669321002/
Oceans are warming up much faster than previously thought: https://newatlas.com/climate-change-ocean-warming-worse/57094/
Colombia: dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/colombia-dying-of-thirst-wayuu-blame-mine-dam-drought-for-water-woes/
South Africa announces new Marine Protected Area Network: https://www.sanbi.org/media/south-africa-announces-new-marine-protected-area-network/
In final effort to revive herds, 6 remaining caribou to be relocated to rearing pen: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/in-final-effort-to-revive-herds-6-remaining-caribou-to-be-relocated-to-rearing-pen-1.4888410
Seed banking not an option for over a third of threatened species: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181102132830.htm
Ottawa wants to create new protected areas for killer whales of BC coast: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/killer-whales-bc-1.4887207
The EPA’s climate change page is just gone now: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjwpz/the-epa-page-that-provided-climate-change-information-is-just-gone-now
First Coho in 40 years return to Oregon’s Lostine River: https://www.opb.org/news/article/first-coho-in-40-years-return-to-oregons-lostine-river/
Massive dinosaur bone bed found in E. Cape, South Africa: http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/massive-dinosaur-bone-bed-found-in-e-cape/
Bow Valley wolf pack rebounds: https://www.rmoutlook.com/article/bow-valley-wolf-pack-rebounds-20181101

Conservation News ~ November 2 2018

11/2/2018

Tropical deforestation is the third-biggest carbon emitter in the world: https://psmag.com/environment/tropical-deforestation-leads-to-more-carbon-emissions
Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/chinese-demand-wiping-out-forests-in-the-solomon-islands-new-report/
Report identifies China as the source of ozone-destroying emissions: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ozone-destroying-emissions-china
First Nations ‘Deeply Frustrated’ after BC Supreme Court dismisses Site C injunction: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-west-moberly-first-nation-injunction-1.4877673
Baby dolphins thrown back into sea to die as mothers butchered by Japanese hunters: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dolphin-hunting-japan-baby-dolphins-hunt-fishing-taiji-sea-shepherd-cove-guardians-a8585356.html
Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/whales-and-dolphins-change-the-way-they-communicate-in-a-noisy-ocean/
Olive Ridley Sea Turtles make spectacular comeback in Mexico: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mexico-turtles-20181011-story.html
Habitat of endangered Malayan tigers vanishing: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/10/23/habitat-of-endangered-malayan-tigers-vanishing/
Bolivian coca crops follow a planned highway through indigenous lands: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/bolivian-coca-crops-follow-a-planned-highway-through-indigenous-lands/
Nova Scotia’s Sacred albino moose killed by visiting hunters: https://committeetoabolishsporthunting.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/nova-scotias-sacred-albino-moose-killed-by-visiting-hunters/
Wildlife rescue group ACRES to send 50 smuggled star tortoises home to India: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/wildlife-rescue-acres-smuggled-star-tortoises-india-home-10872612
Former Monsanto executive picked to lead Wildlife Agency: https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-executive-fws-wildlife-2614834727.html
The oil and gas ban shows NZ as a true leader on the hardest issue of our times: https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-10-2018/the-oil-and-gas-ban-shows-nz-as-a-true-leader-on-the-hardest-issue-of-our-times/
China reverses 25-year-old tiger bone and rhino horn ban: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702
Rescue workers arrive to remove the final animals from the Albanian “zoo from Hell”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6325765/Freedom-Rescue-workers-arrive-remove-final-animals-Albanian-zoo.html
“Drunken forests” in Alaska are just another sign of melting permafrost: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw98w5/drunken-forests-in-alaska-are-just-another-sign-of-melting-permafrost
Prince William said Buckingham Palace ivory should be destroyed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6327183/Prince-William-clashed-Charles-Buckingham-Palace-ivory-destroyed.html
Researchers achieve breakthrough in process to produce hydrogen fuel: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-breakthrough-hydrogen-fuel.html
Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/tsetse-fly-numbers-dwindle-in-the-warming-zambezi-valley/
Canada’s new Indigenous Protected Area heralds new era of conservation: https://thenarwhal.ca/canadas-new-indigenous-protected-area-heralds-new-era-of-conservation/
Huge cluster of Octopuses observed southwest of Monterey: https://www.kqed.org/news/11701363/huge-cluster-of-octopuses-observed-southwest-of-monterey
Vaquitas with calves seen in September 2018: http://www.iucn-csg.org/index.php/2018/10/26/vaquitas-with-calves-seen-in-september-2018-field-effort/
Brazil’s new president will be terrible for the global environment: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/the-guardian-view-on-brazils-new-president-a-global-danger
Vietnam launches its first ethical elephant experience: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/oct/23/vietnams-first-ethical-elephant-tours-launch-in-yok-don
Italy’s wine industry is being tested by the effects of climate change in its vineyard: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/how-climate-change-is-upending-the-patterns-and-predictability-of-italys-wine-industry/2018/10/28/3ae7a9a0-c71e-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html
Vegan chicken named best dish at fried chicken festival: https://vegnews.com/2018/10/vegan-chicken-named-best-dish-at-fried-chicken-festival
Rhino anti-poaching member shot: https://www.ecr.co.za/news/news/rhino-anti-poaching-member-shot/
Coastal Pacific oxygen levels now plummet once a year: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/28/658953894/coastal-pacific-oxygen-levels-now-plummet-once-a-year
Declawing lions, tigers now illegal after Indiana lawsuit against vet who declawed 12 big cats: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2018/10/29/indiana-lawsuit-makes-illegal-across-u-s-declaw-big-cats/1771835002/
At the edge of Canada, climate change brings ‘ecological grief’ to Labrador Inuit: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-at-the-edge-of-canada-climate-change-brings-ecological-grief-to/
Northern Fur Seal new and recolonized breeding sites have highest population growth rates: https://dereklee.scienceblog.com/168/northern-fur-seal-new-and-recolonized-breeding-sites-have-population-growth-rates-among-the-fastest-of-any-fur-seal/
California voters may force meat and egg producers across the country to go cage-free: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/660605016/california-voters-may-force-meat-and-egg-producers-across-the-country-to-go-cage
The fight for corals loses its great champion: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/optimist-who-believed-saving-corals/574240/
Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/mexico-s-new-science-minister-plant-biologist-who-opposes-transgenic-crops
World’s biggest pork producer pledges to cover manure ponds, processing into natural gas: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/29/661064123/worlds-biggest-pork-producer-pledges-to-cover-manure-ponds
Many palm oil companies aren’t paying their taxes: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/palm-oil-executives-arrested-in-bribery-scandal-in-indonesia/
Animal species becoming extinct in Haiti as deforestation nearly complete: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-animal-species-extinct-haiti-deforestation.html
A species revived: How San Diego Zoo helped unlock mystery of panda sex: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-panda-breeding-research-20181101-story.html
Southern Right Whale ‘Superpod’ blows hole in record books: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-southern-whale-superpod-hole.html
Clean coal startup turns human waste into Earth-friendly fuel: https://futurism.com/the-byte/clean-coal-energy-poop
Bitcoin mining along could massively raise global temperatures: https://fossbytes.com/bitcoin-mining-raise-global-temperature-above-2c-by-2033/
Mountain birds on ‘escalator to extinction’ as planet warms: https://www.apnews.com/a4465873dd1f44c1b07bf315caef2493
Global wildlife has declined by 60% in 40 years: https://www.abc15.com/newsy/wwf-global-wildlife-populations-plummeted-60-in-40-years
An island crucial for Sea Turtles has washed away: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2018/10/29/an-island-crucial-for-sea-turtles-has-washed-away/
Air Canada, WestJet latest companies to cut ties to SeaWorld ahead of whale bill: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/air-canada-westjet-latest-companies-to-cut-ties-to-seaworld-ahead-of-whale-bill
Utah seeks roadless rule exemption: https://www.fseee.org/2018/10/30/utah-seeks-roadless-rule-exemption/
Virginia hawk first bird in North America found carrying invasive tick: https://www.localdvm.com/news/virginia/virginia-hawk-first-bird-in-north-america-found-carrying-invasive-tick/1560920669
Models suggest injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere could have unintended consequences: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-sulfate-aerosols-stratosphere-unintended-consequences.html
San Diego bids Bon Voyage to Giant Panda Patriarch: https://zoonooz.sandiegozoo.org/2018/10/30/san-diego-zoo-bids-bon-voyage-to-giant-panda-patriarch/
Oregon to craft new proposal for managing wolves: http://www.capitalpress.com/Livestock/20181010/oregon-to-craft-new-proposal-for-managing-wolves
World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause: https://theconversation.com/world-hunger-has-risen-for-three-straight-years-and-climate-change-is-a-cause-103818
93% of world’s children breathing toxic air which ‘stunts brains’ and causes deadly disease: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/air-pollution-child-death-brain-growth-asthma-pneumonia-toxic-world-health-organisation-a8606626.html
Hansjord Wyss pledges $1billion over the next decade to help accelerate conservation: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/newsroom/wyss-foundation-launches-1-billion-campaign-to-help-conserve-30-of-the-planet-by-2030/
Wolves may be moving to Western Washington: https://www.kiro7.com/news/north-sound-news/wolves-may-be-moving-to-western-washington/863347341
China is turning the rainforest into cheap furniture for the US: https://returntonow.net/2018/10/29/china-is-turning-the-rainforest-into-cheap-furniture-for-the-u-s/
$10 billion pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/10bn-pledged-in-new-commitments-to-protect-the-worlds-oceans/
Five countries hold 70% of world’s last wildernesses: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals
Three Jasper backcountry zones closing to protect caribou population: https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/three-jasper-backcountry-zones-closing-to-protect-caribou-population-1.4154345
Greenville leaders call for reauthorization of federal conservation fund: https://greenvillejournal.com/2018/10/31/greenville-leaders-call-for-reauthorization-of-land-and-water-conservation-fund/
Greenville Zoo fund primate conservation in Africa: https://greenvillejournal.com/2018/10/31/118748/
Saimaa seal population climbs to nearly 400: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/saimaa_seal_population_climbs_to_nearly_400/10457492