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Conservation News ~ 1 May 2020

5/1/2020

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  • Clean air in Europe during lockdown leads to 11,000 fewer deaths
  • Climate change threatens drinking water quality across the Great Lakes
  • Seabed fossils show the ocean is undergoing a change not seen for 10,000 years
  • Microplastics disrupt hermit crabs’ ability to choose shell
  • Scientific advice recommending ban on fracking in Lake Eyre basin kept secret
  • Beijing bans consumption of wild animals
  • Coronavirus disrupts wildlife trafficking
  • Greenhouse gas emissions predicted to fall nearly 8% - largest decrease ever
  • Greta Thunberg receives Human Act Award, donates $100,000 to UNICEF
  • Polar Bear kills female at Russian zoo after she rejects him
  • Outcry as Spanish beach sprayed with bleach
  • Swedish city to dump tonne of chicken manure in park to deter visitors
  • Climate change makes some fish smaller and others even bigger
  • Rwanda’s Akagera park thrives thanks to community-led anti-poaching drive
  • In Panama, agroforestry technique of silvopasture improves ranching traditions
  • New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe
  • Indonesia aims for sustainability certification for oil palm smallholders
  • Church fund urges other ExxonMobil investors to sack board over climate
  • New shocking video of NYC wet markets as animal rights org demands shutdown
  • NRDC and partners sue to stop the dirty water rule
  • Iceland has killed its last whale as industry shuts down for good
  • As BP’s profits plunge, analysts say we are entering the end game for oil
  • Indigenous peoples of Ecuador’s Amazon file lawsuit against government and oil companies
  • A big win for the Frank Church-River of no return wilderness and a call to protect wolves
  • Team Rhino’s actions help seal a victory for South Africa’s Skukuza court, rangers
  • Bats are not the enemy in the fight against COVID
  • Defenders of Wildlife challenge EPAs gutting of Clean Water Protections
  • Important manta ray habitat discovered in Raja Ampat
  • Thailand’s tourist drought leaves spaces for shy sea mammal
  • Millions of farm animals culled as US food supply chain chokes up
  • New species of Moray Eel discovered
  • White House fails again to protect the Gulf of Mexico whale
  • Western association of Fish and Wildlife agencies bungle Lesser Prairie Chicken conservation effort
  • Silence is golden for whales as lockdown reduces ocean noise
  • Keystone XL ruling could threaten other pipelines
  • Invasive lionfish likely to become permanent residents in the Mediterranean
  • Former EPA head says COVID pandemic is no excuse to give polluters a break
  • UK military beef supplier buys from sanctioned Brazilian farmers
  • Through biomimicry, Brazil seeks tech innovations inspired by nature
  • Flamingos form lasting friends, a new study finds
  • Campaigners call for transparency in Myanmar timber trade after 850 tons of wood seized
  • As calls to shutter wildlife markets grow, China struggles with an industry worth billions
  • After furloughing 95% of workers, SeaWorld seeks fed loan
  • Mussels arrive in Antarctica, an ominous sign
  • Austria’s last coal plant closes sa renewable energy takes over
  • 40,000 trees being planted to help West Michigan forests through climate change
  • Zali Steggall calls for investigation of Coalition plan to underwrite gas, hydro, and coal power
  • Only ‘A-list’ of coral reefs found to sustain ecosystems, livelihoods
  • New Zealand calls for thousands of new ‘green’ jobs in bold comeback plan
  • Sweden closes its last coal-fired power plant two years ahead of schedule
  • Tyson Foods chairman warns the food supply chain is breaking
  • Dolphins reclaim Bosphorus as virus silences Istanbul
  • Beyond Meat stock soars as animal meat shortage looms
  • Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began
  • A bold new project aims to ID every species in Costa Rica
  • Wolf cubs on way as Belgium becomes ‘wolf crossroads of Europe’
  • Iceland won’t be killing any whales this year
  • Numbers of critically endangered orange-bellied parrot soar from low 20s to more than 100
  • Chicago City Council votes for equitable access to EVs
  • In the Philippines’ Boracay, flying foxes are down from 15,000 resident bats to 30
  • World’s wind power capacity up by fifth after record year
  • BU’s renowned bat researcher Thomas Kunz dies at 81 of COVID
  • Europe has its own tiger kings with 1,600 captive big cats used for entertainment
  • Five major banks refuse to fund Arctic Refuge oil drilling
  • Chinese trawlers fined for being in SA waters without permission
  • With no tourists Australian SCUBA tours are planting coral instead
  • North America has lost more than 1 in 4 birds in last 50 years
  • Florida aquarium makes breakthrough discovery that could save dying coral reefs
  • First wild stork chicks to hatch in UK in centuries poised to emerge
  • Pressure grows on DC to close roads to give residents more room for walking, jogging, biking
  • Bill Maher calls factory farms just as despicable as wet markets
  • Glowing dolphins light up the ocean waters in stunning California video
  • New bat species discovered – cousins of the ones suspected in COVID
  • Southeastern flower recovers in latest Endangered Species Act success story
  • Poachers kill at least six rhinos in Botswana as tourism dries up
  • Russia lists Caspian seals and Orcas as endangered species after ‘whale jail’ controversy
  • Wildlife trafficking soars as illegal dealers use unchecked hubs in southern Africa
  • Conservation plans help boost threatened mammals
  • Iceland says no whaling this summer, possibly into future
  • Hummingbirds show up when tropical trees fall down
  • Dissolved oxygen and pH policy leave fisheries at risk
  • Indigenous activists permanently barred from Queensland’s Adani mine site
  • Infamous Southern Oregon wolf Or-7 presumed dead
  • 13 Rangers among 16 were murdered in Congo’s DRC Gorilla Park by poachers
  • Fashion is a top global polluter
  • Insects and bacteria emerge as alternative animal feed
  • Ocean plastic was choking Chile’s shores – now it’s in Patagonia’s hats
  • 3 rare right whale calves spotted in Cape Cod Bay with their mothers
  • Insect numbers down 25% since 1990, global study finds
  • China lists white dolphins as source of medicine
  • South Korea is subsidizing biomass so heavily that wind and solar are being crowded out of the market
  • Fossil of a ‘Crazy Beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar
  • Senegal and Bangladesh protect sharks and rays
  • Wall Street is bending to pressure to halt Arctic-Oil loans
  • Simulating early ocean vents shows life’s building blocks form under pressure
  • Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
  • The tiniest bit of air pollution makes COVID more deadly
  • Nearly 15,000 miles of new roads will be built in Tiger habitat by 2050
  • California’s critical kelp forests are disappearing in a warming world
  • Ocean currents are sweeping microplastics into the deep sea
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