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Conservation News ~ 29 November 2019

11/28/2019

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  • United States and Europe blocked African states proposal to protect endangered sharks
  • Canadian indigenous celebrate new protected area
  • Protected areas best conserve mammalian diversity when connected
  • Elliott State Forest Tract sale was illegal, Oregon Supreme Court says
  • New generation of hydroelectric dams threaten Europe’s rivers
  • Climaet activisits shine light on dirty Chase Bank investments
  • New snake species found in India
  • White House is sued for dragging its feet on endangered species
  • Tiny Northern Nevada toad part of massive endangered species lawsuit
  • Massive Attack to help map music industry’s carbon footprint
  • Biotech breakthroughs turns waste biomass into high value chemicals
  • South Dakota Governor caves on attempted efforts to silence pipeline protestors
  • Namibia records 51 poaching cases this year
  • White House sends Smoky Mountain park rangers to help secure the US/Mexico border
  • Thousands of Romanians protest against illegal logging, attacks on forest workers
  • SeaWorld San Diego’s rescue team disentangles Humpback whale from fishing gear
  • Koalas not functionally extinct from fires – 1000 killed out of 300,000
  • Coelacanth filmed off South America’s eastern coastline
  • Scientists identify hundreds of species in Colombia’s Chiribiquete Park
  • New leaf-toed geckos found living on remote volcano
  • Feds propose delisting long-endangered Camas wildflower
  • Feral hogs attacked and killed a woman on her way to work in Texas
  • UC Davis students propose turning invasive species into dog food
  • China stole Philippines’ giant clams while Filipinos sat in court
  • Scientists find one billion year old fungus fossil
  • Cows on Russian farm get fitted with VR goggles to increase milk production
  • Iran sentences 8 Asiatic cheetah conservation scientists convicted of spying
  • Largest turtle swarm ever filmed at sea
  • Coastal fog linked to high levels of mercury found in mountain lions
  • Six scientific journals denounce White House environmental reform
  • Elephant seal native to Antarctica spotted for first time in tropical Sri Lanka
  • Watchdog denounces arrests of four anti-mining activists in Indonesia
  • Wildflower found only in Willamette Valley can be removed from endangered species list
  • Indonesian fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires
  • Indonesian palm oil investigation shortlisted for Fetisov Journalism Award
  • Female gorillas recognize and respond to contagious disease
  • CEOs are facing fierce pressure on climate change – from their own kids
  • White House signs Federal Animal Cruelty bill into law
  • Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has proposed a new plan to reduce mercury
  • Autumn Peltier honoured by BBC
  • Researchers report first recording of a blue whale’s heart rate
  • Rapid genetic test reveals new strain of frog-killing fungus in Southeast Asia
  • Scientists discover new species of spiky-spined dinosaur in prehistoric breakthrough
  • Seven new South Island cave weta identified
  • Study tracks first incursion of poachers into pristine African forest
  • Horror in Romanian port, 14600 sheep on capsized livestock carrier
  • Climate Uprising occupies OMV henchboat
  • Latest regulations safeguard 140,000 square miles off the west coast
  • California Red-legged Frog seen at the Gualala River
  • Jeremy Clarkson finally accepts climate crisis during Asia trip
  • Manta rays and whale sharks consume 63 pieces of plastic per hour
  • Nonprofit threatens suit over possible endangered species in New Mexico
  • German Navy accused of killing porpoises
  • Sumatran rhinoceros now extinct in Malaysia
  • Scientists spot critically endangered vaquita porpoises with babies
  • Vanishing Mongolian ice puts reindeer herders at risk
  • Students storm field at halftime of Harvard-Yale game to protest
  • Video of mating deep-sea anglerfish tuns biologists
  • Fossils of new find dinosaur species discovered in Isaan
  • Coal spill bedevils Indonesian beach more than a year later
  • New Mexico votes to end trapping of cougars
  • Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally gets ID’d as new species
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Conservation News ~ 22 November 2019

11/22/2019

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  • Ancient Kansas shark is new species
  • US Fed agency plans are not adequate to prevent 99.8% of US Endangered Species from suffering
  • Enviro groups threaten lawsuit over Endangered Species Act
  • All but one of the US’s Endangered Species are vulnerable to climate change
  • World’s donkeys being decimated by demand for Chinese medicine
  • Oxford dictionary declares ‘climate emergency’ the word of 2019
  • Coldplay pause touring until they can offer ‘environmentally beneficial’ concerts
  • Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch
  • One-third of tropical African plant species at risk of extinction
  • EasyJet to become first airline to offset all carbon emissions
  • Kruger National Park rejoices after good rainfall
  • Brazil works behind the scenes to greenlight Manuas-Boa Vista transmission line
  • In Indonesian waters, filter feeders can ingest dozens to hundreds of microplastic particles every hour
  • Illegal logging persists in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Indonesian politician at heart of permit scandal dies ahead of graft trial
  • Coca Cola is world’s largest plastic polluter for second straight year
  • Dragonfly swarms over Sri Lanka spark interest and highlight threats to them and damselflies
  • Decades after abandoned farmlands, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover
  • Oregon Capitol sit in opposing Jordan Cove LNG pipeline
  • Rare fish-eating crocodile confirmed nesting in southwest Nepal after 37 years
  • Climate change reassessment prompts call for a ‘more sober’ discourse
  • Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans
  • Decapitated Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia
  • Tanzania rallies to protect world’s largest population of lions
  • Agroforestry program in Appalachia receives $590,000 in federal funding
  • NASA confirms water vapor on Jupiter’s moon Europa
  • Fires leave a million Indonesians gasping
  • House approves bill to eliminate sale of shark fins nationwide
  • NASA has found sugar in meteorites that crashed to Earth
  • Cheetah researchers accused of spying sentenced in Iran
  • New dynamic strategy to protect biodiversity – transient protected areas
  • Amazon wildfires proved to be caused by deforestation
  • Giant vegan billboard arrives at Waterloo
  • Ancient Komodo dragon-like animals had heads proportionally larger than dinosaurs
  • Team of scientists discovered 140 huge mysterious drawings in Peru
  • Judge orders search of MPCA computers in PolyMet challenge
  • Climate impacts ‘to cost world $7.9 trillion’ by 2050
  • Beavers to be released by National Trust as flood control
  • Emirates president thanks Greta Thunberg for helping change
  • New species of seaweed uncovered
  • New Mexico Environment Department requests $1.2m to study toxic plume
  • Light pollution is key ‘bringer of insect apocalypse’
  • Target meets 2020 goal to install 500 rooftop solar arrays ahead of schedule
  • New Panda park in China will be much bigger than Yellowstone
  • Plankton biodiversity mapped globally
  • California Governor cracks down on fracking
  • Black-throated finch wins 2019 Australian bird of the year
  • NOAA fisheries just released thousands of captive bred white abalone
  • Climate groups can’t run ads about global warming on Twitter, but Exxon can
  • Deforestation in the Amazon has hit its highest level in more than a decade
  • Keystone spill has affected nearly 10x more land than was estimated
  • European Investment bank drops fossil fuel funding
  • Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
  • Companies that fail to tackle climate change will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange, Labour Party proposes
  • Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown
  • Mozambique’s newly empowered rangers, courts catch up with poachers, loggers
  • New hope for one of world’s more endangered reptiles
  • VSU bioblitz discovers new species
  • Idris Elba has parasitic wasp named after him
  • Major new project to use nature-based solutions to help Laos adapt to climate change
  • California to stop buying from automakers that backed the White House on emissions
  • Kruger National Park elephant has very close encounter with ranger
  • Restigouche Wilderness Waterway on its way to becoming a provincial park
  • Taiwan’s Pygmy Seahorses have a robust social media presence
  • Peru signs agreement to end deforestation caused by palm oil by 2021
  • We have broken nature into more than 990,000 little pieces – the same area should be 73,000 fragments
  • Feral horses gallop to the rescue of butterflies in distress
  • Slow Lorises and other endangered animals rescued after crackdowns in Hyderbad
  • Newly discovered fossil bird fills in gap between dinosaurs and modern fliers
  • Ant expert discovers new Utah species in backyard
  • Two of America’s biggest coal plants closed this month
  • Rhino, calf electrocuted by collapsed power pylon in South Africa
  • An economist quantifies how valuable whales are to fighting climate change
  • World’s largest public bank ditches oil and coal in victory for the climate movement
  • Botany student unearths three presumed extinct species
  • Colombia’s carbon tax could help protect the Amazon rainforest
  • Climate impacts 626% worse than expected for intact forest loss
  • SRP plans to install Arizona’s biggest battery for massive solar plant
  • Federal judge blocks the West Elk Coal Mine expansion after environmental groups sue
  • Indigenous activist wins prestigious environmental and peace award
  • 14 month old lioness brutally declawed in Gaza Zoo so visitors can play with her
  • Sage Grouse court order trims energy lease auction in Nevada
  • Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra
  • Activists hold conference deep in the Amazon
  • Rapid expansion of protected areas around the world failing to reduce human pressures on land
  • New species of ancient bird found in Japan
  • India seeks Asian Elephant’s inclusion on global endangered species list
  • Victoria to ban logging of native forests under groundbreaking new policy
  • Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
  • Michelin-starred Chef Dominique Crenn announces all of her restaurants are no meat free
  • Angkor Wat is finally putting a stop to its elephant rides
  • Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst
  • Pelosi signs bill making animal cruelty a federal crime
  • New species found in Amsterdam park
  • Researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
  • World’s largest bank cuts finance for coal 
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Conservation News ~ 15 November 2019

11/14/2019

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  • MSU researchers make surprising wolf diet discovery that wolves eat grasshoppers
  • 6 elephant tusk smugglers arrested
  • New border wall going up in southeastern Arizona wildlife refuge
  • Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time
  • Great Thunberg sets sail back to Europe
  • Rescuing the world’s endangered river dolphins takes cutting edge science and community
  • Insect ‘apocalypse’ in US driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
  • Ant expert discovers new Utah species in backyard
  • New species of carnivorous dinosaur identified in Cambodia
  • Endangered falcons released into wild atop New York City high-rise
  • India’s Ganga River dolphins are being shouted down by noisy boats
  • Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production
  • Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan
  • Experts unlock key to photosynthesis
  • 3 cows swept out to sea by Hurricane Dorian are found alive
  • Snow in Texas and ice in Alabama – unusual cold weather could become more common
  • Malawi receives 17 rhinoceros from South Africa
  • US mining sites dump millions of gallons of toxic waste into drinking water sources
  • Cargo of bear paws from 60 illegally slaughtered animals is seized
  • Panther kittens at ZooTampa not showing signs of impairment
  • 3,600 invasive pythons killed in Florida
  • Fed up with Forest Service cuts, Mammoth Lakes and other towns are plotting a recreation tourism plan
  • SC Farm Bureau creates hemp committee
  • More than 200 elephants in Zimbabwe die as drought crisis deepens
  • An Icelandic fishing company bribed officials in Namibia and used Norway’s largest bank
  • Venice flooded by highest tide in 50 years
  • New program helps struggling chicken farmers convert to plant-based crops
  • Indigenous women traveled 3000 miles to save an Alaskan forest from US Feds
  • Californian fire chief says Australia is facing the new normal
  • Officer murdered in the Philippines part of growing list of natural resources officials killed
  • National Parks a boost to mental health worth trillions
  • First evidence of feathered polar dinosaurs found in Australia
  • Florida Governor announces Everglades restoration milestone
  • New material points toward highly efficient solar cells
  • US sees largest reduction of protected lands in history
  • Antarctica’s first zero-emission research station shows that sustainable living is possible
  • Barrier to stop plastic waste from reaching the sea launches in Amsterdam
  • Using polar bear footprints to chart family trees
  • Massive Bel Marin Keys marsh restoration begins
  • Vikings killed off Iceland’s walruses
  • America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
  • Dungeness crab fishing season delayed due to whale and sea turtle entanglement risk
  • Australian bushfires wipe out half of koala colony
  • Moth populations in steady decline in Britain
  • Seven new species of leeches that only leave their homes to suck blood from fish are discovered
  • China aims to build its own Yellowstone on Tibetan plateau
  • Oil palm plantation owner charged in murder of journalists in Indonesia
  • Fires and greenhouse gases fuel the drying of the Amazon
  • US Feds make it easier to dredge protected areas to restore beaches
  • One of the world’s thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming
  • EPA to limit science used to write public health rules
  • Bolivian coup comes less than a week after Morales stopped multinational firm’s lithium mining deal
  • The Patanal, the world’s largest wetlands, are burning in Brazil
  • New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
  • Millions of seabirds rely on discarded fish
  • Oil spill threatens vast areas of mangroves and coral reefs in Brazil
  • Scientists rediscover mammalian oddity in remote Vietnam
  • New species of spider named after Sachin Tendulkar
  • Researchers discerned a new species of dragonfly
  • Endangered hoiho penguin wins New Zealand’s bird of the year poll
  • Fukushima to be reborn as $2.7bn wind and solar power hub
  • Exxon, Chevronissue warning on Warren’s fracking ban
  • Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry
  • The Bayman’s Nightmare: All the scallops are dead
  • Banksy uses toy animals to highlight animal cruelty and factory farming
  • Giant Greta Thunberg mural to watch over San Francisco’s downtown
  • Sandra the Orangutan freed from a zoo after being granted ‘personhood’
  • New species- the Sierra Pine Saguaro
  • Lump found on sea floor off Florida may be new species that resembles human poop
  • Kirtland’s warbler officially comes off Federal Endangered Species list
  • Program using cocoa trees to restore Amazon forest to be expanded
  • Wall Street spends millions to buy up Washington state water
  • Spider webs don’t rot easily and scientists may have figured out why
  • Giant water battery cuts university’s energy costs by $100 million over next 25 years
  • Fossils found in BC are a new species More than 60 endangered turtles disappear from zoo in Japan
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Conservation News ~ 8 November 2019

11/8/2019

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  • IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030
  • A new bioreactor captures as much carbon as an acre of trees
  • New Zealand Prime Minister Ardren says NZ is on ‘right side of history’ as MPs pass zero-carbon bill
  • Coca Cola is biggest culprit behind plastic waste in the Philippines
  • Italy to become first country to make learning about climate change compulsory for students
  • Gene flow between butterfly species offers clue to biodiversity
  • Two six-million-year-old new species of snakes found in Greece
  • Beautiful new species of dragonfly discovered
  • Pacific Fishers proposed for Endangered Species Act protection in California and Oregon
  • Unusual mass flowering in Malaysian rainforests provides seeds for endangered tree ‘arks’
  • Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico
  • Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy
  • Court rejects ivory ban challenge
  • Makers of Oreo, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires
  • LA Mayor Garcetti celebrates final approval of largest solar and energy storage project
  • White House schedules lease sale for Arctic Alaska lands
  • Indonesian journalists critical of illegal palm plantation found dead
  • Earthworms’ place on Earth mapped
  • Images reveal Iceland’s glacier melt
  • Purchase of Banning Ranch for coastal preserve buoyed by $50 million donation
  • New toads named from a Sumatran biodiversity trove that’s under threat
  • The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to deny Paradise Valley plan south of Joshua Tree
  • Fracking halted in England in major government U-turn
  • Indonesia plans IVF for recently captured Sumatran rhino
  • House votes to permanently ban uranium mines near Grand Canyon
  • The Queen of England foes fur-free for the animals
  • 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency
  • New species of Tarsier discovered
  • Brazilian judge rules elephants not a commodity
  • Complex society discovered in vulturine guineafowl
  • Greta Thunberg promotes veganism to 4 million ‘Ellen’ viewers
  • Prince Harry’s conservation charity African Parks takes on neglected Zimbabwean national parks
  • Scientists prioritize protection of ‘climate refugia’
  • Bengal tree frog gets recorded as new species
  • New species remain hidden in myristica swamps of the Western Ghats
  • India air pollution at ‘unbearable levels’
  • Five million pollution masks to be handed out to Delhi residents
  • Eight new species of mussels spotted
  • Killing endangered fish may land a Florida man in jail with a $50000 fine
  • Rex Tillerson testified in court about lying to Exxon’s shareholders about climate change
  • Plastic bottles repaving South Africa’s roads
  • Five indigenous leaders massacred in Colombia
  • Antarctic marine park – conservationists frustrated after protection bid fails for eighth time
  • Guardian of the Forest ambushed and murdered in Brazilian Amazon
  • Migrating eagles rack up huge data roaming charges
  • Fishery collapse confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy
  • There’s a new fin whale subspecies in the north Pacific
  • Japanese university artificially incubated endangered eel species
  • Bennet, Udall aim to conserve 30 percent of US lands by 2030
  • Use of neonictinoids on rice paddies linked to fishery collapse in Japan
  • Canadian Feds called on to enforce emergency closure of BC’s last herring fishery
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